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NEW MEMBER SHABBAT

GAINESVILLE Look around you for a moment. Really look. To your left, to your right, in front of you and ...

Parashat Shemini: The Fire We Cannot Explain

It is the eighth day after the Mishkan, the Tabernacle, has been completed. The whole community is in a state ...

SHABBAT CHOL HA MOED PESACH – GAINESVILLE

In the past couple of weeks, we were immersed in one thing in our Torah calendar: the sacrifices, the korbanot ...

TZAV – GAINESVILLE

I don’t know about you, but when I was growing up, every Monday night there was a oft-repeated instruction coming ...

OH NO! LEVITICUS!

There is one time in the year when rabbis break out in sweats.  No, it’s not hte High Holidays, believe ...

A VISION OF JUSTICE

One of the consequences of being a student of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament is that I understand ...

THE REAL BLESSING

Parahat Bo - Gainesville Do you remember the good old days when we actually had to sit through a movie ...

SHEMOT – Feeling the Pain

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

VAYECHI – BACK TO THE PLACE WE CAME FROM

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

BAD REALITY TV

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