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Sharing New Roles in Jewish Life
March 19, 2025
From the Rabbi David Lyon
On Monday, March 24, 2025, I’ll be installed as CCAR President at the annual CCAR Convention for a two-year term. Following years on
The Mask We Wear
March 12, 2025
From the Rabbi David Lyon
Rabbi Eugene Borowitz, Ph.D., of HUC-JIR, wrote in his book, The Mask Jews Wear: The Self-Deceptions of American Jewry (1973), “The men (sic)
At Home with Humanity
March 6, 2025
From the Rabbi David Lyon
In the Talmud, when the rabbis didn’t know how to settle the law for the community, they said, “Tzei ul’meid,” go and learn.
When Our Hearts are Moved
February 26, 2025
From the Rabbi David Lyon
When our hearts are moved we’re inclined to do so much. It’s just as our Torah portion opens in Exodus 25, “Tell the
It’s a Redeemable World After All
February 19, 2025
From the Rabbi David Lyon
In Ecclesiastes, or Kohelet, in Hebrew, we learn, “There is nothing new under the sun” (Eccl. 1:9). It’s not a complacent statement nor
Bring Them All Home
February 12, 2025
From the Rabbi David Lyon
This week’s Torah portion is “Yitro,” or Jethro. This is the portion that includes the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20; but in Exodus
Coming and Going in Difficult Times
January 29, 2025
From the Rabbi David Lyon
This week’s Torah portion opens with the words, “Bo el paro,” or “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the
The Lions of Judah Emerge
January 15, 2025
From the Rabbi David Lyon
Last weekend, Congregation Beth Israel hosted Rabbi Jonathan Cohen, Ph.D., as our scholar-in-residence. Just one of our multiple scholar events during the year,
Judaism, Our Reliable Faith
January 8, 2025
From the Rabbi David Lyon
When I was a child, I learned that I was afraid of heights. It came to me after an IMAX theater experience ended
Chanukah is Hope
December 18, 2024
From the Rabbi David Lyon
In JNS.org, Defense Minister Israel Katz is reported to have told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, “We are the closest to