Friday, November 13, 2015

Thanksgiving and the Jewish connection

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What’s Jewish about Thanksgiving?  I see the world through Jewish colored lens and certainly there is much in Thanksgiving which is ...
Friday, October 30, 2015

Halloween Not a Jewish holiday or another American holiday?

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I was never a fan of Halloween.  I did allow costumes on Halloween with the caveat whatever costume you bought for Halloween you wore at Pur...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Doing Mitzvot year round or Every Day is Mitzvah day!

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At the food bank last year. This year Lakeside Congregation has taken on an ambitious social action project.  We packing 19 backpacks f...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Christmas Lights and Sukkot

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I have always thought Christmas lights are beautiful.  Growing up in a Crystal Lake, Illinois and being the only Jewish house on my block wi...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

Blog Elul, I am late to the party but still here. Blog #26 Create

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I try every year to Blog Elul with my colleague Rabbi Phyllis Sommer .  What's the big deal about the month of Elul?  Here is what we le...
Friday, July 31, 2015

They're Back, your campers I mean.

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Kallah Gimmel 2015 They’re back. It’s been three weeks and while your world may have kept its normal rhythms and pace, their’s has turn...
Friday, July 17, 2015

A typical day in Kallah Gimmel, Anything but typical

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Every day in Kallah Gimmel may have a similar format but the surprises are what all the chanichin, madrichim and Segel anticipate with gr...