Who is the wise person? The one who foresees the consequences.

Talmud, Tamid, 32a

Publications & Sermons

In commemoration of #YomHashoah & #SixMillion
“The Last Survivor” Performed by Cantor Alex Stein
Composed: Cecelia Margules
Arrangement: Tomer Addadi

 

Click HERE to view our Yizkor Book 5784

Rabbi Seed – Parashat Veyetze 5784: How Far Do We Go? – November 25, 2023

Rabbi Seed – Parashat Toledot 5784: Heroes for the Generations – November 18, 2023

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Vayera 5784: Get Out Of This Place – November 4, 2023

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Lekh Lekha 5784: The City of Slaughter and the Captivity of Lot – October 28, 2023

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Noach 5784: The Disordering of the World – October 21, 2023

Rabbi Seed – Yom Kippur Yizkor 5784: How We Remember – September 25, 2023

Rabbi Seed – Rosh Hashanah Day Two 5784: Looking Backward to Move Forward – September 17, 2023

Rabbi Cutler – Kol Nidre 5784: Modeh Ani: A Personal Odyssey 

Rabbi Cutler – Rosh Hashanah Day 1 5784: A Message to Last 10,000 Years – September 16, 2023

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Ki Tavo 5783: Nostalgia and Gratitude – September 2, 2023

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Shelach Lecha 5783: A Land That Devours Its Inhabitants – June 17, 2023

Rabbi Cutler – Nasso 5783 – Finding Your Chutzpah – June 3, 2023

Rabbi Cutler – Shavuot Yizkor 5783 – May 27, 2023: Dementia and MAID: Killing the Most Vulnerable Among Us 

Rabbi Seed – Seventh Day of Pesach 5783: Appreciating Our Freedoms – April 12, 2023

Rabbi Seed – First day of Pesach 5783: Pesach – Past, Present and Future – April 6, 2023

Rabbi Seed – Parashat Shemot 5783: Making a Difference – January 14, 2023

Rabbi Seed – A Chanukah Message – December 17, 2022

Rabbi Cutler – Remembrance Shabbat – November 12, 2022: Parashat Vayera

Rabbi Cutler – Shemini Atzeret 5783 – October 17, 2022

Rabbi Seed – Yom Kippur Neilah 5783 – October 5, 2022

Rabbi Seed – Yom Kippur Yizkor 5783 – October 5, 2022: How to Remember

Rabbi Seed – Shabbat Shuvah 5783 – October 1, 2022

Rabbi Seed – Rosh Hashanah Day II 5783 – September 27, 2022: Challenging Questions for the New Year

Rabbi Cutler – Yom Kippur 2022 / 5783 – What We Owe The Future

Rabbi Cutler – Kol Nidre -2022 / 5783 – What can I say?

Rabbi Cutler – Rosh Hashanah Day I – 2022 / 5783 – Living Your Best Life

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Ki Tetze 5782 – About Monarchies

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Ekev 5782 – A Slow Motion Massacre

Rabbi Cutler – Shabbat Nachamu – Parashat Va’etchanan 5782 – Comfort and Refusal

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Chukat 5782 – Praying for Our American Neighbours

Rabbi Cutler – Shavuot Day II 5782 – Storytelling and the Stories We Transmit

Rabbi Cutler’s introduction to the Torah reading from the first day of Shavuot – Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism by Howard Schwartz

Rabbi Cutler – We All Teach We All Learn But How Do We Transmit

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Bechukotai 5782 – God as Happenstance

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Emor 5782 – Honouring Rabbis and the Torah they have Learned

Rabbi Cutler – Pesach Day 2 (Reimagining the Four Sons)

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Tazria 5782 – L’Chayim

Rabbi Seed – Shabbat Parah – Parashat Shemini 5782 – Cleaning our Homes and the World

Rabbi Seed – Shabbat Zachor – Parashat Vayikra 5782 – Purim In Our Day

Rabbi Seed – Parashat Mishpatim 5782 – Being Aware – Day by Day

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Yitro – Colleyville: Altars and Iron

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Bo – Even a Barrier of Iron

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Vayigash – The Lulka Affair

Rabbi Cutler – A Rabbinic Rebuke: Please Be More Compassionate

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Toldot 2021 – If So, Why Do I Exist?

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Chayei Sarah 2021 – The Road Not Taken

Rabbi Seed – Parashat Noach 2021 – Giving Thanks

Rabbi Seed – Shemini Atzeret Yizkor 5782 – How Do We Remember as Jews?

Rabbi Seed – Second Day Sukkot 5782 – Coming Together for Good

Rabbi Cutler – Yom Kippur Musaf 5782 – Our Fathers Have Sinned

Rabbi Cutler – Kol Nidrei 5782 – On Loneliness Human and Divine

Rabbi Seed – Second Day Rosh Hashanah 5782 – Making the Most of Our Time

Rabbi Cutler – First Day Rosh Hashanah 5782 – Hope and the Brokenness of Sometimes

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Devarim 2021 – Don’t Turn Away

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Korach – You Have Gone Too Far

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Naso – Jew in the Middle

Rabbi Cutler – Shavuot Yizkor 2021 – Connection and Obligation

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Bemidbar – As a Father Carries His Son

Rabbi Cutler – Parashiyot Behar-Bechukotai 2021 – Satisfaction

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Emor 2021 – Walking To the Left – After the Lag Ba’Omer Tragedy

Rabbi Cutler – Bo 2021 – The Darkness of Covid

Rabbi Cutler – Vaera 2021 – Living in a Post Plague World

Rabbi Cutler – Shemot 2021 – The Ongoing March to Freedom

Rabbi Cutler – A Brachah for the Vaccine

Cantor Ben Sharpe – Chanukah 5781 – 2020

Rabbi Seed – Vayishlach 2020 – December 5: Lighting the Light for the Future

Rabbi Cutler – Vayetzei 2020 – November 28: Grateful and Disappointed

Rabbi Seed – Vayera 2020 – November 7: Beyond Division

Rabbi Cutler – Lekh Lekha 2020 – October 31: Baruch Sheptarani

Rabbi Cutler – Shemini Atzeret – October 10, 2020: Waiting

Rabbi Cutler – Yom Kippur Day – Yizkor – September 28, 2020: The Shvartze Khasune

Rabbi Cutler – Kol Nidre 5781 – September 27, 2020: Keeping Focus on What Matters Amidst Confusion and Despair

Rabbi David Seed – Shabbat Shuvah – September 26, 2020: The Shabbat of Repentance

Rabbi David Seed – Rosh Hashanah Day II 5781 – September 20, 2020

Rabbi Cutler – Rosh Hashanah Day 1 5781 – September 19, 2020: The Unnoted Deaths: Preparing for a Post-Covid World

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Ki Tavo – September 5, 2020: Propriety and the Pulpit

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Shoftim – August 22, 2020: Justice and Baseball

Rabbi Seed – Parashat Ekev – August 8, 2020: Seeking Good in Difficult Times

Cantor Stein – Shabbat Nachamu, Parashat Vaetchanan – August 1, 2020: Listen to the Silence

Rabbi Cutler – Shabbat Chazon, Parashat Devarim – July 25, 2020: Jewish Disagreement and Accusations of Jewish Self Hatred

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Pinchas – July 11, 2020: Marie-Joseph Angélique and Serach: Untold Stories and the Search for Justice

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Chukat-Balak – July 4, 2020: Sanctifying God’s Name in Difficult Times

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Korach – June 27, 2020: On Returning to An Empty Shul

Rabbi Seed – Parashat Shlach L’chah – June 20, 2020

Making Our Community Better: Yoelit Lipinsky

Rabbi Cutler – Parashat Be’haalotekha – June 13, 2020: Coming Together Slowly in the Covid Wilderness

Rav Amran Gaon’s Individual Kaddish – can be said in lieu of the Mourner’s Kaddish when there is no minyan

Livestreaming of Services Begins June 13, 2020 (9:30 a.m.)

Making Our Community Better: Amit Rozenblum

Making Technology More Shabbat Friendly courtesy of Rabbi Joshua Heller

Rabbi Cutler: Statement on Racism

Marilyn Sherman: Happy 100th Birthday to Rabbi Schild

Cantor Kirshblum: Happy 100th Birthday to Rabbi Schild

A Message from Marilyn Sherman – May 2020

Rabbi Adam Cutler – Where Does Judaism Happen?

Rabbi Adam Cutler – PrePesach Sermon 5780: Of Olives and Broken Rooves

Rabbi Adam Cutler – Saving Others and Elevating Ourselves: COVID-19 AND BEYOND

Rabbi Adam Cutler – Zoom Meeting: Psalms with Rabbi Cutler

Rabbi Adam Cutler – Mishpatim – February 22, 2020: Clogged Toilets and the Search for God

Rabbi to Rabbi February 2020

Rabbi Adam Cutler – Bo – February 1, 2020: Thoughts on Tefillin

Rabbi David Seed – Vaera – January 25, 2020: The Lessons of 75 Years Later

Rabbi Adam Cutler – Vayechi – January 11, 2020: Living Legacy and Saying a Final Goodbye

Rabbi David Seed – Shabbat Chanukah – December 28: Bringing Light to the World

Rabbi Adam Cutler – Vayishlakh – December 14, 2019: Living with Fear

Rabbi David Seed – Toldot – November 30, 2019: The Blessing of Family

ShinShinim Dvar Israel #5: 16.11.2019 – Ron

ShinShinim Dvar Israel #4: 2.11.2019 – Noga

ShinShinim Dvar Israel #3: 5.10.2019 – Ron

ShinShinim Dvar Israel #1: 14.09.2019 – Ron and Noga

A Brief History of Women and Ritual at Adath Israel

Rabbi Adam Cutler – Shabbat Parashat Noach 2019: Noah’s Ark and How I (And Many, Though Not All, of You) Understand the Torah: Implications for Jewish Choices

Rabbi David Seed – Chol HaMoed Sukkot – October 19, 2019: Sukkot’s Meaning for Today and the Future

Rabbi Adam Cutler – Shmini Atzeret (Yizkor) 2019: This Space Intentionally Left Blank

Rabbi David Seed – Yom Kippur 2019: Reconnecting with Our Loved Ones

Rabbi David Seed – Kol Nidre 2019: Breaking Free of the Past to Write the Future

President Marilyn Sherman’s Yom Kippur Report 5780

Rabbi Adam Cutler – Neilah 2019: Making Your Mark in the Book of Living

Rabbi Adam Cutler – Yom Kippur Day (Yizkor) 2019: Eternality and the Future of Memory: A Sermon in Six Parts

Rabbi Adam Cutler – Kol Nidrei 2019: Street Signs and Unintended Offense

Rabbi Adam Cutler – Shabbat Shuva 5780 – Saturday, October 5: Self-Forgiveness, Textual-Emotional Support, and the Precariousness of Life

Rabbi David Seed – Rosh Hashanah 5780 Day 2: Looking Back / Looking Ahead

Rabbi David Seed – Rosh Hashanah 5780 Day 1: The New Reality We Live

Paul Faibish – Ko’ach Campaign Speech 2019 – 5780

Rabbi Adam Cutler – Rosh Hashanah 5780 Day 2: This Day in History

Rabbi Adam Cutler – Rosh Hashanah 5780 Day 1: Rosh Hashanah 1934

Rabbi to Rabbi – September 2019

Rabbi Seed – Shabbat Parashat Korach 5779: Giving Thanks

Marilyn Sherman – 2019 Annual General Meeting President’s Report – June 2019

Rabbi Cutler – Shabbat Parashat Sh’lach Lekha 5779: Invoking Holocaust Language for Today

Rabbi Seed – Shabbat Parashat Beha’alotcha 5779: Second Chances

Rabbi Cutler – Tribute to Rabbi Schild Rabbinical Assembly Convention 2019

Rabbi Cutler – Shabbat Parashat Naso 5779: Sport As/And Religion

Rabbi Cutler – Shavuot II 5779: Yizkor Time

Rabbi Cutler – Shabbat Parashat Bemidbar 5779: Into The Wilderness

Rabbi Cutler – Shabbat Parashat Acharai Mot 5779: We Will Outlive Them for The People of Israel Live

Rabbi Cutler – Yizkor Passover 2019: On The Struggles of Others

A Statement on Immunization

Rabbi Cutler – Passover Day Two 2019: What Fills Your Four Cups?

Rabbi Cutler – Shabbat HaGadol 2019: Metzora 5779 – Failed Moonshots

Rabbi Cutler – Tsav 5779 – The Torah of Chesed: Interfaith Outreach after Christchurch

Rabbi Cutler – Vayakhel 5779 – Looking At Yourself in the Mirror

Rabbi Cutler – Ki Tissa 5779 – On Values: Ultimate and Otherwise

Rabbi to Rabbi – February 2019

Cantor Stein – Shabbat Shira Sermon – January 19, 2019

CJN Article: January 24, 2019 – Rabbi Erwin Schild’s Little Black Box and ‘Crazy Angel’

Rabbi Adam Cutler – The Crisis Narrative Shabbat Before Chanukah 5779

David Rosenberg Presentation –  November 17, 2018

Rabbi Cutler – Vayera 5779: Surrogacy Drashah

Rabbi Adam Cutler’s Shavuot Yizkor Sermon – Both Silent and Complete: The Beginning of Torah

Rabbi Adam Cutler’s Installation Speech – Sunday, May 13, 2018

Rabbi Adam Cutler Parashat Naso – May 26, 2018

Rabbi Cutler – 5778 Yom Haatzmaut Volunteer Shabbat

Rabbi Cutler – Shmini 5778 Two Questions

Rabbi Cutler – Yizkor Pesah 5778

Rabbi Cutler – Pesah I 5778

Rabbi to Rabbi

Rabbi to Rabbi – October 2018

Rosh Hashanah Day 1 – Rabbi Cutler: Letter to My Newborn Daughter

Rosh Hashanah Day 2 – Rabbi Cutler: Why Be Jewish

Shabbat Shuva 5779 – Rabbi Adam Cutler: #Gam Ani

Kol Nidre 5779 – Rabbi Adam Cutler: Speaking the Heart’s Truth

Yom Kippur Yizkor 5779 – Rabbi Adam Cutler: Forgiveness is Not Always Divine

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