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Gainesville One phrase, that’s all it takes to completely change the trajectory of the life of the Jewish people. And ...

Gainesville 2025 I want to share a little bit of my personal history with you today. When I was in ...

Vayigash Gainesville Stella and I have an ongoing argument. She is very much into reality TV dramas, mostly for background ...

PARASHAT TOLDOTE - GAINESVILLE I have been teaching Torah classes in one fashion or another for decades.  To be honest, ...

CHAIYAE SARAH - Gainesville When I was 11 years old, I distinctly remember going to my grandfather’s 70th birthday.  This ...

PARASHAT VAYEIRA - GAINESVILLE The Torah likes to talk in coded language, or at least we read Torah as if ...

Rabbi Cy Stanway - Gainesville The parasha this week is something of a pivot point, if you think about it.  ...

Bereshit - Gainesville Welcome back to the beginning of the Torah and probably the most misunderstood portion in Western religious ...

SUKKOT GAINESVILLE Americans have a deep desire to either be happy, pretend we are happy, or make everyone else happy! ...

Yom Kippur Morning Rabbi Cy Stanway American society loves to assign names to significant and, oftentimes, not-so-significant events. Every month ...