Gmar chatimah tovah – may you each be sealed for a good year. It is great to come home to Temple Beth El. You are my family. Yom Kippur is…
QUEENS RECEIVES $1 MILLION TO ESTABLISH PROFESSORSHIP OF JEWISH STUDIES CHARLOTTE, N.C. (September 25, 2017) – Thanks to the generosity of Lori and Eric Sklut, a $1 million endowed fund…
[Reprinted from the Charlotte Observer, September 2, 2017. Rabbi Schindler serves as Contributing Editor, the Observer editorial board.] Symbols have immense power to elicit emotions based on our personal history…
Born in the shadow of the Holocaust, we hear in Charlottesville the echoes of Nazi Germany. Born in the wake of Jim Crow, we see in Virginia the resurfacing…
White supremacy is sometimes easy to identify. Some who hold this ideology are aligned with groups we know well: the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis. Their presence is frightening. Intimidation…