What It Means to Remember Right Now
by Rabbi Nathan Kamesar It is distressing to witness a significant part of the world at war. At the center of the current conflict is the clerical regime governing the Islamic Republic of Iran — a regime that has fomented death and destruction throughout the world for decades, and whose supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, […]
A Still, Small Voice
by Rabbi Nathan Kamesar Here is the D’var Torah (teaching of Torah) I offered this past Friday night, as a prelude to a gorgeous teaching from our semi-annual Scholar in Residence series, this time with Rabbi Michael Cohen on Overcoming the Asymmetry of the Sensational: A Better Future for Israelis and Palestinians: When I heard […]
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Count Me In – the Half-Shekel Legacy
by Rabbi Nathan Kamesar There is so much coming up at Society Hill Synagogue! We’ve got a Scholar-in-Residence Shabbat this weekend that I am really looking forward to, with Rabbi Michael Cohen from the Arava Institute; we’ve got all of our Purim festivities March 1, 2, and 3, and if you can believe it, it […]
Rain, Dew, and the Nourishment We Need
by Rabbi Nathan Kamesar For obvious reasons, I’ve been thinking a lot about the weather over these last couple of weeks. Perhaps it started when I spent an hour and a half shoveling snow to get our car dislodged, finally understanding the Philly practice of sticking a lawn chair in a street parking spot to […]