April 2025 | Nissan/Iyar 5785

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...

March 2025 | Adar 5785

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....

February 2025 | Shevat 5785

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...

January 2025 | Kislev/Tevet/Shevat 5785

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...

December 2024 | Cheshvan/Kislev 5785

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...

November 2024 | Cheshvan 5785

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...