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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 ...

Shir Shalom - Gainesville Temple Shir Shalom: Gainesville
 Rabbi Cy StanwayWhen I became an American many years ago, someone told ...

Rosh Hashanna Morning 2025 – GainesvilleRabbi Cy Stanway  Several years ago, the tabloids had a field day when the beautiful, ...

Gainesville, 2025 Even though I pretty in the dark about baseball, even I know the iconic picture of Babe Ruth ...

Nitzavim - Gainesville I am not sure why, but this week’s portion is my all-time favorite. I have tried to ...

Ki Tavo - Gainesville I sometimes wonder how many love songs have ever been written.  Hard to know.  So I ...

PARASHAT SHOFTIM - GAINESVILLE When scholars began looking at the book of Deuteronomy from a literary-critical point of view and ...

Parashat Re'eh - Gainesville In 1981, I was in my last year of college in Toronto and, out of the ...

PARSHAT EKEIV - GAINESVILLE One of the interesting ways of reading the Bible is trying to figure out the meanings ...