by Deborah Roos | Apr 14, 2022 | Member News, Not in Newsletter, Sermons
Student Rabbi Lev's Sermon - Shabbat 9th April 2022 https://simlevblog.files.wordpress.com/2022/04/wearenotsick.m4a Imagine if I stood up here on a shabbat and I told you I could fix you. Imagine if I said there was something fundamentally wrong with you. That some...
by Deborah Roos | Jun 4, 2021 | Member News, Sermons
For those interested here is the link to the recording of Rabbi LIsa's farewell service - https://youtu.be/sPvi78Cz97M - and the following is Rabbi Lisa's farewell Dvar Torah - Parashat Naso. Serving SWESRS has been a Blessing ‘God said to Moses: One leader per day,...
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...
