by Deborah Roos | Jan 7, 2021 | Member News, Sermons
וַיִּישֶׂם בָּֽאָרוֹן בְּמִצְרָֽיִם Va'yisem ba'aron bemitzraim And they put Joseph in a coffin in Egypt. Bereishit, the Book of Genesis, reaches its conclusion. The book’s final words, describing the death of Joseph, are a doom-laden prophecy for what lies ahead for his...
by Deborah Roos | Jan 7, 2021 | Member News, Sermons
Many a strange thing happened this year. Proper trousers became memorabilia, we learned to identify, like judges in Project Runway, people who are able to, smile with their eyes, we’ve invented a new Yiddish word, when we complained that we were all geZoomed, so...
by Deborah Roos | Dec 3, 2020 | Not in Newsletter, Sermons
JWA Shabbat 5781 Speaking Out To raise awareness of domestic abuse in our community on this JWA Shabbat, I want to share my own story with you. My father was a loving father. He loved his family, his wife and three daughters, dearly. Yet my earliest childhood memory...
by Deborah Roos | Sep 21, 2020 | Sermons
‘I Just Want the Future to be Good’ Today we celebrate the birthday of the world, and the creation of humankind. Adam and Eve are made from the mud of the earth, the first Earthlings, formed from the same substance as the seas and the skies, the flowers, the forests...
by Deborah Roos | Dec 10, 2019 | Sermons
Election Special: The Religious Duty to Vote Two or three times a year the Reform and Liberal Rabbis get together, for learning and discussion on a pressing issue of the day. In the summer, we held a special debate on our role as Rabbis in any upcoming election. One...
by Deborah Roos | Oct 10, 2019 | Sermons
YK Day It’s All About Relationship! It’s YK morning. The good news - You’ve survived Rosh HaShanah! The not so good news – there are still 234 pages of the Machzor and more than 7 hours of praying left before that cup of tea and another piece of honey cake at the end...
