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The Importance of Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel In Our Lives

In 1958, I was enrolled in the Aleph Class at Beth Zion Beth Israel. I followed through being Confirmed. During that time I met long lasting friends that still play… Read More

Posted: May 7, 2018 by

Learning from Parashat Tazria

Rebecca Bushee celebrated becoming a Bat Mitzvah on April 21, 2018. Imagine a world where most of the children from ages eight to eleven are dying. A mysterious and fatal… Read More

Posted: May 4, 2018 by

From the Heart

Aharei Mot-Kedoshim 5778 / 28 April 2018

I’ll preface this story by saying it was far from my proudest moment: I was probably in ninth or tenth grade, at lunch in yeshiva high school, when a friend… Read More

Posted: May 3, 2018 by

The Irish Torah

Toledot 5776 / 15 November 2015

This d’var was delivered on November 14, 2015, by congregant Ira Siegal during Colin Flanagan’s Bar Mitzvah. To Colin Flanagan’s family, it may seem like the planets and moons are… Read More

Posted: April 27, 2018 by

Sometimes the Sermon Writes You

A Visit to the Poeh Cultural Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico with Stephen Tekaron-Hiarenkon Fadden

Rabbi Joel Seltzer, Executive Director of Camp Ramah in the Poconos, visited the Poeh Cultural Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico with Stephen Tekaron-Hiarenkon Fadden, the program director of the… Read More

Posted: April 26, 2018 by
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