Bear with me as I make sure the links work on this new version of the site!
Click on the image to watch some of the High Holy Day sermons on YouTube.
Rosh Hashanah 5786 (2025) Day 1
Your Moral Autobiography
Rosh Hashanah 5786 (2025) Day 2
The Power of Kindness in a Brutal World
Rosh Hashanah 5785 (2024) Day 1
A Year Later: “Fortunate Are You, O Jewish People”
Rosh Hashanah 5785 (2024) Day 2
Patience and Impatience
Rosh Hashanah 5784 (2023) Day 1
Glimmers
Rosh Hashanah 5784 (2023) Day 2
Through Regret
Rosh Hashanah 5783 (2022) Day 1
Help Me Talk About What I’ve Been Through and Who I Am
Rosh Hashanah 5783 (2022) Day 2
Right-ology: How to Be Right Better in the New Year
Kol Nidre/Yom Kippur Eve 5783 (2022)
Community: What the People You Might Not Really Know Add to Your Life
Yom Kippur 5783 (2022)
A Jewish Leap of Faith Into Our Democracy
Rosh Hashanah 5782 (2021) Day 1
Living With Fear and Uncertainty
Rosh Hashanah 5782 (2021) Day 2
Better Than Normal
Shabbat Shuvah 5782 — September 11, 2021
Five Spiritual Imperatives on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11
Rosh Hashanah 5781 (2020) Day 1
6 Feet Closer
Rosh Hashanah 5781 (2020) Day 2
Hope
Still updating the links below….
Shabbat Hagadol 5780 (2020) The Four Children of COVID-19
Rosh Hashanah 5780 (2019) Day 1 Look Up to Them
Rosh Hashanah 5780 (2019) Day 2 Who Knows?
Yom Kippur Morning 5780 (2019) Partners Not Guests: Jews Building America, America Building Us
Shabbat Vayeshev 5779 — Right Before Chanukkah (Dec. 1, 2018) The Dreidel: Four Kinds of Hope
Shabbat Chayei Sarah 5779 (Nov. 3, 2018) After Pittsburgh: A Narrower Bridge, A Net Like Never Before
Rosh Hashanah 5779 (2018) Day 1 I Have Your Lost Object: Being Spiritual Finders, Keepers, and Returners
Rosh Hashanah 5779 (2018) Day 2 V.O.R. — Vision-Opinion Ratio
Yom Kippur 5779 Kol Nidre (2018) Truth — Capital and Small T
Yom Kippur Morning 5779 (2018) Body Talk
Rosh Hashanah 5778 (2017) — 2nd Day Friendship
Yom Kippur Kol Nidre 5778 (2017) Still Small Voices
Yom Kippur 5778 Morning (2017) Fighting Anti-Semitism and Other Hates, All at Once
Rosh Hashanah 5777 (2016) — 1st Day How Good Do I Have To Be?
Rosh Hashanah 5777 (2016) — 2nd Day Hope In An Uncertain World
Yom Kippur Kol Nidre 5777 (2016) Costumes, Whites, “Who Knows” — Yom Kippurim = A Day Like Purim
Yom Kippur Morning 5777 (2016) Repairers of the Breach
Shabbat Korach 5778 (June 16, 2018) Midrash or As’mach’ta? How to Use and Not Use the Bible in Politics
Shabbat and Pesach 5778 (April 7, 2018) Reverend King and the Rabbis — Fifty Years Later
Shabbat Hagadol 5778 (March 24, 2018) For Our Lives on the day of the national “March for Our Lives”
Shabbat Zachor 5778 (February 24, 2018) Purim: Getting Out of Our Masks
Shabbat Terumah 5778 (February 17, 2018) The Megillah and Parkland, Florida
Shabbat Re’eh 5777 (August 19, 2017) Building Mountains: After Charlottesville
Shabbat Naso 5776 (June 18, 2016) After Tel Aviv and Orlando
Shabbat Sh’lach L’cha 5776 (July 2, 2016) Erev Independence Day 5776: Why I Chose America
Shabbat Korach 5776 (July 9, 2016) Remembering Elie Wiesel As A Lens For The Week That Was
Shabbat Chukkat 5776 (July 16, 2016) Thirsty for Leadership
Shabbat Shoftim 5776 (Sept. 10, 2016) How To Be Judgmental
Rosh Hashanah 5776 (2015) — 1st Day Busy
Rosh Hashanah 5776 (2015) — 2nd Day Moral Adventure
Yom Kippur/Kol Nidre 5776 (2015)
Community, Or: Always Go To The Shiva, Always Go To The Bar/Bat Mitzvah
Yom Kippur Morning 5776 (2015) Would Isaiah Approve This Message?
Rosh Hashanah 5775 (2014) — 1st Day Holy Impatience
Yom Kippur 5775 (2014)
Isaiah, the Ice Bucket Challenge, and the Shmittah Year
Rosh Hashanah 5774 (2013) — 1st Day Being Here in the Digital Age
Rosh Hashanah 5774 (2013) — 2nd Day Our Responsibility to Dream
Yom Kippur 5774 (2013) Seeking Understanding, Living With Mystery
Rosh Hashanah 5769 (2008) — 1st Day On Being Judgmental
Rosh Hashanah 5769 (2008) — 2nd Day A Spiritual Lens on Economics Life
Yom Kippur 5769 (2008) Politics, Poverty, and the Prophet
Terumah 5769 (2009) Learning from the Jewish History’s First Capital Campaign
Shabbat Zachor 5769 (2009) Toward Purim: The Mishkan and the Megillah
Shabbat Hachodesh 5769 (2009) Chametz: Rising Bread and Our Inflated Selves
Rosh Hashanah 5770 — 1st Day (2009) Keeping Score, Letting Go
Yom Kippur 5770 (2009) Enlarging the Circle of Chesed
Rosh Hashanah 5771 — 1st Day (2010) Helping Someone Else to Change
September 10, 2011 Reflections on 9/11 Ten Years Later
Rosh Hashanah 5772 — 1st Day (2011) Shabbat: The Secret Treasures of Eating Together
Rosh Hashanah 5772 — 2nd Day (2011) Yes, We Need to Keep Praying Together
Yom Kippur 5772 (2011) Poverty in America: Keep Looking, Keep Learning
Shabbat Chanuka 5772 (2011) Hope
Rosh Hashanah 5773 — 1st Day (2012) Gossip
Rosh Hashanah 5773 — 2nd Day (2012) A Sense of Direction
Shabbat Shirah 5773 What Is a Miracle?
Shabbat Yitro 5773 (2013) Three Meanings of “Commandment”
Shabbat Vayeshev 5774 (2013) On the 50th Anniversary of JFK”s Assassination
Shabbat Vayiggash 5774 (2013) What Do Jews Believe About the Messiah?
Shabbat Zachor/Purim 5774 (2014) Who Knows?
Shabbat Emor 5774 (2014) Sterling Bans Silver for Life