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...

I had been asking myself for months if this pandemic would finally do something to break us.  Even in our forced separation and through the challenges we have encountered, we were surviving. Our lives were thrown into disarray, but most of us could...Read more...

This week’s Torah portion begins with a familiar reminder of the Biblical understanding of faith and practice, "If you follow My laws and faithfully observe My commandments, I will give your rains in their time, the land will yield its produce, and the tree of the...Read more...