January 16, 2026
Praying with your feet is one of our core religious principles. We celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., because King is an inspiration, a hero and a model to us. We share his guiding principle: that our religious beliefs are to be applied to the challenges, problems, and opportunities of our world.
January 23, 2026
Shabbat shalom, thank you for tuning in to part two of this sermon. For those who weren’t here last week, tonight I’m giving the second of a two part series to offer some guidance for those who have been asking or wondering: what can or what should I do in response to the distressing and concerning state of our world and particularly the grievous policies and actions of our government and some of our neighbors.
Rosh HaShanah 5779 | September 9, 2018
Late last year, paramedics brought a 70-year old man to a Miami emergency room. He was breathing but unconscious and had no identification and no family present. He had a heart condition, history of lung disease, and diabetes. After he was admitted, his blood pressure dropped dangerously and his kidneys were failing. The doctors faced a problem: Tattooed across his chest were the words “Do Not Resuscitate” and his signature. The word NOT was underlined.i The doctors later wrote: “We initially decided not to honor the tattoo, invoking the principle of not choosing an irreversible path when faced with uncertainty.”
Yom Kippur 5771 | September 18, 2010
“Unetaneh tokef kedushat hayom ki hu norah v’ayom – let us declare the sacred power of this day it is awesome and fearful.” I have always found that prayer captivating. That may sound strange because, on one level, its theological basis is the idea that a Divine Judge prepares a ledger of all our names and inscribes whether we live or die in the coming year and seals that verdict today. It is hardly a theology I share. It is also not the most uplifting liturgy: “Who shall live and who shall die? Who by fire and so on…” The list of ways we could go caught my attention as a child. Growing up in a house where the nightly local news was our family’s dinner table background, I recognized how true the prayer was. If anything, the list was too short.