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.”…
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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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
REGRETS, DO-OVERS, LOOKING AHEAD: Reflections Gladys Foxe, L.C.S.W.. L.P., Ph.D. Thank you, Peter. This was a wonderful assignment and I have given it a lot of thought. First…