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…
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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…
Yom Kippur 2010 Forgiveness by Dan Wyman “Danny, are you a Nazi?!!!” This was my grandmother Edith’s response to me when, at age 10 on a visit to…
Rosh Hashanah 2010 Rabbi Peter Schweitzer Every once in a while, the New York Times features what I like to describe as a reconciliation article. Sometimes they appear as…
Yom Kippur 2010 Rabbi Peter Schweitzer In thinking about my remarks for this morning, I discovered a typically zany performance by Jerry Lewis of a song written in 1950…
Life’s Challenges Devera Witkin Yom Kippur 2009 I am so honored to be a speaker today, alongside my friend Hy Gold. Hy is a real mensch and such a kind,…
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want… Or not by Hy Gold Yom Kippur 2009 I wish to thank Rabbi Peter for asking me to share my thoughts…
THE HERMENEUTICS OF SUSPICION: SEEKING OUT A HEALTHY SKEPTICISM Daniel Radosh Rosh Hashanah 2008 I am a skeptic from a family of skeptics. Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles — you name…