To watch this sermon, delivered on Yom Kippur 2024, click here. If I am honest, I want more than my…

To watch this sermon, delivered October 3, 2024, click here. Sebastian Junger is now an accomplished journalist but he had…

Quite some time ago when I first became involved with Jewish libraries, there was not much to choose from in…

The poet T.S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruelest month, a quote often taken out of context. But I…

https://youtu.be/N_QcLqudMUc?si=sEE5fXQpdwKqxnhl We learned a lot this week, the Jewish community, about war and loss and grief and senseless violence and…

We are not much of a TV-during-dinner family, but for the Olympics, we gather to watch the daily recap over…

New life experience: watching as someone steals your packages off your front stoop. Not a thing when you live on…

This week I went hiking and found myself thinking about frustration and how we hold effort, despair and resilience. And…

When the kids were little, we used to take them to visit my in-laws for July 4. My (very wonderful)…

It only took until Tuesday. It wasn’t the Mint Oreos that Naomi brought home from Target, though they didn’t help…

Maybe because of the images from Rafah all week, maybe out of a sense of being misunderstood, or maybe because…

In today’s America, the idea that we are obligated to serve—that our lives are somehow to be “of service”— feels…

“All… adults have only known Jews who were strong enough to help us,” he said, “and now the idea that you need our help…

Just as we were preparing to send this week’s message, the Earth shook. All the more reason to click below…

I watched “The Bachelor” finale with my daughter this week. How emotionally intense it wanted to be! Daisy was brought…

My intention this week had been to keep it light. After all, we brought in the month of Adar this…

Somewhere in the space between reluctance to commit and the sense of being too busy, I have found a million…

We Jews have so many holidays and days of remembrance. From Nissan 1, the first day of Passover, marking the…

As many of you know, I served at a congregation in Ohio as an interim rabbi the year prior to…

Did you know that the Hebrew word hodu means both turkey and give thanks? So hodu for hodu. In Yiddish,…

Rabbi Treu joined a small group of clergy for a 36-hour Solidarity Mission to Israel organized by Greater MetroWest Federation…

I can’t imagine any Torah story that has been interpreted so many times and in so many ways. It’s a…

When we first got word of the Hamas Simchat Torah massacre we were sad and brokenhearted. But we know the…

We don’t have the words to properly express how we are feeling. For me personally I have never been so…

Family lore has it that Grandpa Julius, my father’s father, was the only man in the shtetl of Skidel with…

Who remembers Norman Cousins?Norman Cousins was a nice Jewish boy, who grew up not far from here in Union City,…

Anniversaries are something to look forward to with joy, sadness, appreciation, or awe. On August 29th, we marked the 60th…

When you see this at Costco, you know that the Days of Awe, the High Holidays, will soon be upon…

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to The Jewish Catalog. How old are you now? This…

Although each of us should be proud of who we are every month of the year, June is officially PRIDE…

In our family, it is the matzah balls that win the nostalgia award. The brisket, too, but sometimes that is…

We celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life in just a few days.  His relationship with the Jewish community was marked…

Earlier this week, I was astounded to log in to one of the news websites I read regularly and see…

One of my earliest Jewish memories is of the shofar. In particular, the final blast of the season, that long…

When I was in high school, I spent a large part of my time and energy helping people who were…

Jewish baseball is hot right now. Team Israel heads to the Olympics, in itself a minor miracle as Israel has…