Rabbi Judith Schindler - A Voice in the Wilderness

January 11, 2020

Three Freedom Songs – A Jewish Take on Liberation

Delivered at Temple Beth El, January 10, 2020 It feels good to be here on this bima. I love this place. We are blessed with incredibly talented clergy: Rabbi Knight, Rabbi Klass and Cantor Thomas. They have great voices – voices of wisdom, voices of kindness, they even have musical voices. How lucky we are! Before I was an honorary rabbi of Beth El and regularly led services on this…

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January 7, 2020

So today is Jewish and Proud Day…

When I learned that today was Jewish and proud day, it struck me as odd. When I stopped to think about it, for me every day is Jewish and proud…

December 29, 2019

Never and Again – This time an attack on a home Chanukah Party

We pray “never again” in response to the violent escalation of antisemitism or any hate and yet it is happening again and again. In the summer of 2018, I began…

November 8, 2019

Evolving and Devolving

Written for Kristallnacht (November 9-10, 2019) and Veteran’s Day (November 11, 2019) Language evolves. Research evolves. Learning evolves. We have been told to expand our language. November 9-10, 1938, was…

October 20, 2019

Yom Kippur 2019 – awe, fear, and sanctity shattered

Yom Kippur is the most solemn day of the Jewish year. Even I, as a rabbi, addicted to her cell phone, set it aside to immerse myself in fasting and…

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Three Freedom Songs – A Jewish Take on Liberation

So today is Jewish and Proud Day…

Never and Again – This time an attack on a home Chanukah Party

Evolving and Devolving

Yom Kippur 2019 – awe, fear, and sanctity shattered