Arbor Storyteller of the Month
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Dear members and Gan Shalom families, we hope you have been enjoying the stories we have been sharing each month as part of our mutual support committee’s Tapestry …
by Rabbi Jodie Siff
As we observe Presidents’ Day today, may we collectively and individually reflect on our leaders. Our community just finished voting in a special election and Presidents’ Day reminds us of the profound significance of voting in …
by Cantor Eric Schulmiller
Forget the New Year’s Eve ball drop. At the end of December, fans of the Kansas State Wildcats and the North Carolina State Wolfpack (and soon thereafter everyone on the internet) witnessed the perfect culmination to …
by Rabbi Lee Friedlander
Dear Friends,
After almost fifty years in the rabbinate, so much of Jewish ritual still moves me. Consider the conclusion of a traditional funeral. Following the shoveling of earth on the coffin and the recitation of …
Arbor Storyteller of the Month
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Following a weekend full of singing and celebration of our friends in the forest, this story from Carol Blumenthal is a wonderfully sweet coda to both Shabbat Shira …
by Rebecca Hirschwerk – Director of Congregational Education
…A theology that is not a plan of social action is merely a way of preaching and praying. It is a menu without the dinner. – Mordecai Kaplan, Not So Random Thoughts
by Rabbi Jodie Siff
Building connections and allies with neighboring communities of faith has been a cornerstone of my rabbinate. In Port Washington and Manhasset, being part of interfaith clergy associations has allowed me to walk the path of ministering …
by Cantor Eric Schulmiller
Two little digits. Twenty-five years ago, that’s all that stood between us and a worldwide apocalypse. When 1999 arrived, governments and businesses scrambled to finish their preparations for the arrival of the dreaded Y2K bug. We …
by Rabbi Lee Friedlander
Dear Friends,
Almost a century ago, the hilariously sardonic poet, Ogden Nash, anticipating the beginning of a new year, wrote the following poem titled, “Good Riddance, But Now What?”
…Come children, gather round my knee:
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by Cantor Eric Schulmiller
“To daven (pray) or not to daven, that is the question…” Jewish law requires a minyan, ten Jewish adults (Reconstructionists do not discriminate by gender), in order to say certain prayers in a service, most notably …
