High Holiday Torah and Haftarah Portions
If you are doing a Torah or Haftarah portion for the High Holy Days, please click HERE for the PDF and MP3 files. Click HERE for a listing of the congregants doing portions at Wadsworth.
MISTAKES WERE MADE, BUT NOT BY ME Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben, Ph.D. Yom Kippur 2008/5769
A man observed a woman in the grocery store with a three-year-old girl in her basket. As they passed the cookie section, the child asked for cookies and her mother told her, “No.” The little girl immediately began to whine and fuss and the mother said quietly, “Now Julie, we just have half of the aisles left to go; don’t be upset. It won’t be long.”
My Runaway Emotions Will Not Run Away With Me - Rosh Hashanah 2008
-- Rabbi Sheryl Lewart “Look mom, this is my room,” my daughter Judy said from the doorway of a large bedroom boasting a bay window that offered a sweeping view of Jaffa street as it curves towards the bus station. Bold red and white egged buses careened around the sharp curve, the number nine coming often enough to remind me of the bus that Judy was riding, when a suicide bomber, explosives hidden under a long coat, stepped aboard. more >
Finding God in Disneyland – Rosh Hashannah 2008
-Rabbi Sheryl Lewart An American man, a Russian man, and an African man were all up in a hot-air balloon together. more >
GOD’S TO DO LIST ROSH HASHANA 5769/2008 Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben, Ph.D.
America is obsessed with lists. David Letterman has virtually made an art form of it. more >
SPIRITUAL HUNGER IN AN AGE OF PLENTY Yom Kippur 5769/2008 Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben, Ph.D.
“The college faculty gathered for their weekly meeting. A professor of archaeology brought with him a lamp recently unearthed in Africa which was reported to contain a genie, who, when the lamp was rubbed would appear and grant one wish. more >
Changing Our Words, Changing Our Lives Rabbi Jon Hanish Yom Kippur Kol Nidre 2008
Take a look at these robes! Can you believe they make us dress like this? Come on, it’s a bit ridiculous, don’t you think? When was the last time you went to a synagogue service and the clergy were prancing around looking like they just walked through a jar of fluff? I feel like a giant marshmallow.
After my father’s tour of duty in the Pacific...
After the beach had been stormed in Normandie...
After the war was finally over...
After SO many things were broken, SOME to be repaired, SOME to be tossed aside, SOME to be replaced and SOME to be forgotten forever, my 24 year old father decided to take a trip, a vacation to Europe.
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