Dear B’nai Shalom members, friends, and families: Knowing full well that Jews all over the world are now busily occupying themselves with all of the Pesach preparations and necessary cleaning and changes to our homes, I share the following with you to help make the...

Dear B’nai Shalom members, friends, and families: With the holiday of Purim quickly approaching, I share with you the following points and reminders concerning the holiday which I hope will be helpful to everyone in making the celebration of Purim festive and joyful....

Dear B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: In a recent Shabbat drasha (sermon) and the preceding shiur (class), I spoke about elements of Hebrew that indicate specific meanings in words we learn in the Torah that can be misunderstood and misinterpreted when...

Dear B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: For this month’s bulletin article, it was suggested to me that I present to you a couple recent questions that were posed to me together with the answers I shared with the questioners. I thought that could be an...

Dear B’nai Shalom members, friends, and families: With the next holiday on our Jewish calendar, the festive chag of Chanukah, soon to be upon us, I share with you the following listing of mitzvot, traditions, customs, and rules concerning the holiday. I hope this is...

Shalom uvracha to all of the wonderful B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: I hope and trust that following the inspiring and moving Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services, the holidays of Sukkot, Shmini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah, brought additional pleasure...

Dear B’nai Shalom Families, Members, and Friends: At the most recent gathering of my weekly Shiur (Shabbat afternoon class) during Seudah Shlisheet (the traditional Third meal, Shabbat afternoon), we engaged in a lively, interesting, and informative conversation...

Dear B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: While summertime is a time of great joy, pleasure, and relaxation for many people, there is a portion of the summer that does not match the joyfulness that often accompanies the summertime. As you will be reading this,...

Dear B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: As you are reading this bulletin, we will be about halfway between the joyous festival of Shavuot, (behind us) and the sadness-filled fast day of Shiva Asar B’Tammuz, coming up in just a few weeks. There is ALWAYS...

Dear B’nai Shalom members, friends, and families: Having recently returned from (what I discovered was my…) 25th trip to Eretz Yisrael, I would like to share with you a number of observations and points of interest from our trip. I hope you will find this helpful,...