Cantor's Corner

We are in the month of Adar ll and Purim occurs Wednesday, March 16 this year. We are commanded to be happy, to drink until we cannot distinguish between the name of Mordecai and Haman, and to enjoy the Purim-spiel, a play...Read more...

Happy New Year one and all and welcome 2022. May it be a gentler, healthier year for us and for our world.

I’ve found that acrostics allow me to be philosophical. An acrostic is a poem or other composition in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in...Read more...

Happy fall everyone!

Here is my annual November “Thanks” acrostic. Every year I sit and think about what I’m thankful for in my life and what I behold around me in nature, in my congregation, and in the world. In this time of COVID, I am even more aware of God’s precious gifts to us all.

Try creating your own acrostic of thanks this year. Your thoughts might surprise...Read more...

Return again...return again.

We return: from summer to fall, from vacation days to school days, from long sunny days to those shorter, cooler ones.

We also return again to celebrate the Jewish New Year and to contemplate how we have gone astray and what we need to do as we move forward.

But we cannot return to where we were. Yes, we’ll return to in‐person, as well as online services, but we will never return again...Read more...