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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…