Dear B’nai Shalom members, friends, and families: With the most recent chag (holiday) of Shavuot now behind us, we view a large period of time on the Jewish calendar in which the majority of the upcoming time truly lays “fallow.” The day after Shavuot was the 8th of...

Happy Anniversary to Jerusalem! Shalom Uv’racha to all B’nai Shalom Members, Families, and Friends: At the time you will be reading this month’s shul bulletin, the jubilant celebration of the modern and joyous holiday of Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day, the 28th day...

Dear B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: Even with the ongoing rules and restrictions concerning the COVID-19 virus precautions, in one form or another, you will certainly be busily preparing for the upcoming Passover holiday. With just a few leniencies...

Dear B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: At the time you will be reading this, we will be close to the celebration of the joyous holiday of Purim, the 14th day in the Hebrew month of Adar. Below you will find a list of the mitzvot (commandments) which we...

Dear B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: As we contemplate the end of the 2020 tumultuous and restriction-filled year, we may be finding ourselves sighing with relief at the end of a very trying and, in some cases, a very difficult time in our lives. There is...

Dear B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: With the ongoing Corona virus lockdown and all its rules, regulations, and restrictions, I am hopeful that the holiday of Chanukah will enter your homes with joy and celebration and bring up the level of happiness in...

Dear B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: With davening, the offering of prayers to Almighty G-d, taking place mostly from our homes these days due to the COVID-19 virus restrictions in place, I offer the following guidelines of halacha (Jewish law) helping to...

Dear B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: Recently, a shul member asked me to share with the congregation’s bulletin readers a Jewish knowledge and information quiz that I included in the monthly B’nai Shalom bulletin a couple years ago. I have therefore...

Dear B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: As you read this month's bulletin, we will have already entered the Hebrew month of Elul. Many people may recognize the name "Elul" as the month that precedes Rosh Hashanah and all the "high holidays." That is correct....

Dear B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: We miss you! This is strange, so bizarre… It is hard to get used to yet it has now been ongoing for us in the shul community since the middle of March. Who could have known? Who could have foreseen that our lives would...