The Times They Are A-Crashing
10/03/2024 01:30:51 PM
Rosh Hashanah 5785 | 2024
“The Golden Age of American Jews is Ending,” screamed the cover of April’s The Atlantic magazine. Subheadings blared these messages: “An Era of Acceptance is in Danger,” “Hatred from the Right . . . and the Left,” “Jews Fleeing...Read more...
the gift of storytelling
10/02/2024 09:15:23 PM
Erev Rosh Hashanah 5875 | 2024
When students are studying to be rabbis, we are assigned to small communities for the High Holidays that don’t have full-time clergy. From the very beginning of one such visit, a community member (let’s call her Louise) made herself known....Read more...
A Message from Rabbi Dan Feder
09/02/2024 01:29:21 PM
A Message from Rabbi Dan Feder: The Recent Tragedies in Israel
Dear Friends,
It is with deeply saddened hearts that we mark the deaths of six Israelis taken hostage on October 7. Their brutal murders reinforce the danger for...Read more...
Six Homes, One PTS
08/01/2024 09:25:00 AM
My husband and I have lived a rather nomadic life. We first met in New York City and spent the early years of our marriage in Pennsylvania. We’ve lived in Princeton, NJ, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan (twice), in Burlingame, and now, in Washington, DC.
Six...Read more...
My (Jewish) Leadership & Hope For The Future
07/01/2024 09:00:00 AM
I remember the first time I volunteered for a leadership role in high school. It was for the local BBYO Jewish youth group AZA chapter. I was elected as the Treasurer. After two successful terms, I moved on to chapter President. One year later I was the...Read more...
Why i became a synagogue leader
05/30/2024 09:00:48 AM
I have a distinct memory of the first time I felt lucky to be Jewish.
I was in elementary school, and I had just learned that only about two percent of all Americans, and less than one-half of one percent of all the people in the world,...Read more...
Building and Rebuilding
05/01/2024 09:00:55 AM
Only a month remains before I depart from PTS, and it still does not feel real. Unlike many other Jewish professionals I have met through my time as the Director of Youth and Family Engagement, who have worked for many Jewish organizations, this is my first time leaving one Jewish community...Read more...
mourning
04/01/2024 09:00:36 AM
As long as I have been a rabbi and have been composing eulogies to give comfort to mourners, I have found tremendous power in these words by Rabbi Sidney Greenberg: “The Psalmist wisely spoke of walking ‘through the valley of the shadow.’ No road of life can detour...Read more...
