Temple Israel
“And in the end, the love you take”
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 28, 2023
My final sermon -- a mix tape with Sinatra, the Monotones, Rav Kook, and Cynthia Ozick. More than four decades of striving for the holy.
Why LGBTQ pride is a Jewish issue
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 20, 2022
(RNS) — The intersectionality of Jews and gays has a particular power and poignancy.
Jews need allies. Here’s how to be one.
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 9, 2021
A quick primer on loving your neighbor as yourself.
‘To those who celebrate.’ What’s up with that?
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 1, 2021
(RNS) — It is a rather timid religious expression. Why do we insist on saying it?
They returned to synagogue. Now what?
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 8, 2021
(RNS) — What we do not know yet is simply this: When they can come back to live, in-person worship, will they?
The day Reform Judaism made history
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 24, 2021
(RNS) — Reform Judaism in Israel has come of age.
Rabbis mull whether to talk about politics on the High Holy Days
By Lauren Markoe — September 29, 2016
(RNS) Three rabbis give sneak peeks at their sermons for the High Holy Days as Jews welcome a New Year and atone for the past year's sins.
Jews and Muslims need to learn together
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 17, 2015
Was Maimonides a Muslim? No, but there's a deeper (and more urgent) story here.
Why I love Miami Beach
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 12, 2015
Meyer Lansky, Jackie Gleason, Frank Sinatra, Holocaust survivors -- hanging out together on Miami Beach. Imagine what that would have been like.
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