Because submission to God’s will is one way to look at bowing fully down on the Yamim Noraim…but what if we are taking a bow, an end-of-the-year curtain call, so that God can applaud us for all we’ve endured? This

Rosh Hashanah 5787 Day 2 Sermon Click HERE to watch Rabbi Treu’s full sermon on Rosh Hashanah Day 2. I … did something… really bad this summer. I didn’t mean to. It was something that had been brewing, I guess, for many

Rosh Hashanah 5787 | Day 1 Sermon Click HERE to watch Rabbi Treu’s full sermon on Rosh Hashanah Day 1. [Singing unaccompanied: “Where do you belong? Where do you belong?”] That song has been stuck in my head for lo these many

As published in TAPInto SOMA. Last week’s public statement condemning the removal of the Israeli flag from the exterior of one of our town’s synagogues was one visible example of the often unseen work of our elected officials do on

I didn’t mean to freak out. Especially just a day after I’d sent out a message encouraging us all to keep calm. Nonetheless, when an unmarked white van pulled up in front of my home a few days ago, I

Surprise, and no surprise: the Israeli flag was taken down from our building by vandals at some point this past weekend. It was up over Shabbat, and when I stopped by this evening after a weekend away, I saw that