Tashlikh 2016 Rabbi Peter Schweitzer There’s a very old custom associated with Rosh Hashanah. It’s called tashlikh, a practice in which Jews shake crumbs into streams and rivers. It’s…
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Rosh Hashanah 2016 “MAKE US A KING” Rabbi Peter Schweitzer The Jewish pessimist is the one who says, “Oy, things couldn’t get any worse,” The Jewish optimist is the…
Jewish Identity and Individuality Amy Goldin Thank you Rabbi Peter for thinking I had something to say on the matter of individuality. After all who am I? A humanistic Jew…
DESPAIR Jennifer Naparstek Klein, Psy.D. When I heard last year that Robin Williams had taken his life, and in such a desperate seeming way—with a dress belt to his…
Rosh Hashanah 2015 Rabbi Peter Schweitzer For many years I had a favorite sign that I saw posted on a Catholic church in Cincinnati. It read, “Noon mass, 12:10pm.”…
Tashlikh 2015 Rabbi Peter Schweitzer Normally, we use this moment in the service to talk briefly about the Tashlikh ceremony, a practice in which Jews symbolically cast off sins…
Rosh Hashanah 2014 Rabbi Peter H. Schweitzer This past May I made a call to a well-known chain store that specializes in houseware and furniture. I had read about…
Legacy of My Parents Shirley Ranz As some of you, who have been in The City Congregation for many years, know, both my parents are Holocaust survivors. My father…
The Possibility of Change Gladys Foxe, L.C.S.W.. L.P., Ph.D. (Originally delivered, in a longer version, as “How I got my politics”, for Shabbat May 2013) Thank you Peter, and…