Moving Forward-Rabbi Boris' Blog

I've had a lot on my mind this week. As you know, last week, at around this time at a suburb outside of Dallas, Texas, the horrible situation took place as five people were taken hostage at a Congregation Beth Israel during a Shabbat service. As I mentioned in the letter I wrote to this community, while anything that affects the Jewish community or a place of worship feels especially difficult as a rabbi, this one hit very close to...Read more...

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Joan Walsh Anglund

This week, on this special Shabbat of Shabbat Shira,  we read the story of the Israelites crossing the Sea of Reeds.  After the community experiences this miracle, they gather together to sing with joy, a flowing and profoundly...Read more...

Parshat Pinchas-2021

(How much has changed since last year...)

So here we are, nearly a year and a half after our synagogue officially closed its doors to end person gatherings. It's been an unbelievably strange year filled with more than our share of difficult moments and challenges, but also this has been a year of gaining an unbelievable sense of perspective. There's no way that you can make...Read more...