Yom Kippur 2016 Rabbi Peter Schweitzer Shanah Tovah, Happy New Year, Gut Yontiff. As I have done regularly to open our High Holidays services, I’d like to share a…
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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…
Final Arrangements Judith Schoolman This I Believe, 2013, and Yom Kippur 2014 I believe people should make arrangements for their “final rest” before they die and not leave everything…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…