LEGACY Alice Kaplan Many years ago, I was given a handout. It must have been at a workshop I was attending but now, my memory fails me and I…
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Yom Kippur 2013 Rabbi Peter Schweitzer In 1896, my grandfather on my mother’s side emigrated to America from Vilna in Lithuania. He was 14-years old. Seven years later he…
Rosh Hashanah 2013 Rabbi Peter Schweitzer As I have done regularly to open our High Holidays services, I’d like to share a brief message that is intended to set…
Rosh Hashanah 2012 Rabbi Peter Schweitzer This past June I visited Germany and Poland with my son Oren. I will be making a presentation about the trip at one…
Yom Kippur 2012 Rabbi Peter Schweitzer When I was a teenager I was fortunate to go to Europe with my parents and my cousins. One day I took a…
Integrity Dahlia K. Remler Rosh Hashanah 2012 Early in graduate school, I made an appointment to meet a fellow student in our departmental library at its closing time,…
Only Connect Trudy Elins As always, I started by doing some research on the topic. Rabbi Peter is not the only one who can Google “Purpose of Life.” But I…
Yom Kippur 2011 Rabbi Peter Schweitzer First came the damage-control counter attack when a particular congressman from Queens found it necessary to make the rounds on seven cable news…
Rosh Hashanah 2011 Rabbi Peter Schweitzer For me the carefree days of my youth during the summer time were spent either in the Adirondacks or on Cape Cod. We…
Yom Kippur 2010 Forgive Me, Mother Carol Sternhell On Mother’s Day the nursing home—my mother’s prison—is abloom. Every resident—at least every one with relatives willing to sign a check—gets…