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Hope of the Broken:Reflections on the Twenty-Fourth Anniversary of September Eleventh
09/11/2025 02:16:01 PM
Rabbi Michael Bernstein
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The calendar turns to September 11th and once more the scene shifts. The perfect blue New York sky, the succession of images, indelible now, unfathomable then. And then a persistent fear that the day of terror could be just the beginning of something or even, G*d forbid, the end. And over time the emerging of faces of new enemies and names and stories of what would be tallied as 2,978 victims.
As our country braces for, remembers and...Read more...
Shabbat Shalom from the Rabbi
06/20/2025 03:31:24 PM
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Tracie and I are in Greece and Italy on a special trip. It feels strange to be away from home during such a fraught time for our Jewish community—and away from Israel at this critical and heart‑wrenching moment. I had already been weighing whether or not to display my kippah in public, but now there is no choice. We have also been careful to curb our habit of speaking Hebrew like a secret language when talking about something in a...Read more...
Entering Shabbat: The Strength of Empathy
05/23/2025 05:03:04 PM
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On Wednesday afternoon, a number of hours before the heartbreaking news of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim’s murder, IRead more...
What Cain Said to Abel
04/23/2025 06:34:43 PM
Rabbi Michael Bernstein
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As we commemorate Yom Hashoah, the Memorial of the Holocaust, it seems fitting that we will read this Shabbat the Torah portion Shemini which begins with the death of Nadav and Avihu, two of Aaron’s children who perished inexplicably becoming, as the word Holocaust means originally - an offering consumed by fire. At that moment, his dead before him, Aaron could only silence himself
This silence intertwined with...Read more...
A Song About Alice
12/17/2024 01:27:41 PM
Rabbi Michael
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Check out the new blog post from Rabbi Michael about "Alice's Restaurant" sung by Arlo Guthrie
use this link to read it: https://open.substack.com/pub/rabbimichaelbernstein/p/still-a-song-about-alice?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Read more...Restarting the Heart
09/27/2024 03:56:59 PM
Rabbi Michael
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Our GLT team had a CPR course this morning for renewing certification or first time training. I learned something new about the AED, the automated defibrillator devices that provide a shock to the heart in an emergency situation. Even after having learned how to use the device initially I had thought that the shock...Read more...
Kindling Fire in the Darkness: After the Murder of our Hostages
09/01/2024 07:34:04 PM
Rabbi Michael
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Sing this Song for Yourself
02/08/2024 04:36:04 PM
Rabbi Michael
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Award shows of late have become more notable for the criticisms they raise than their own content. This year’s Grammys, while not without any controversy, were much better received and in some cases lauded for delivering some unexpectedly poignant moments. Perhaps the most noted was the surprise appearance of Tracy Chapman, a performer who has left the public stage for many years and whose song “Fast Car” remains a...Read more...
Netiv HaAsara
12/04/2023 04:23:03 PM
Rabbi Michael
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At the beginning of this trip, when we headed South toward the area called the Gaza Envelope I braced myself for what it would be to stand in the midst of what had become a killing field. As it turned out, we were unable to get access to any of the communities in which these sadistic acts of destruction took place, including Netiv HaAsarah, a moshav with which my friend Geoff has close family ties. And it was Geoff who said words that really...Read more...
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