Rabbi Sara Sapadin’s new essay in the Forward reflects on Women of the Wall, the ongoing fight for religious equality in Israel, and a historic step toward women’s rabbinic leadership through the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s exams. She writes about what it means to pray at the Kotel as a woman, a Reform rabbi, and a Jew committed to a more inclusive vision of Jewish life.
Dear Temple Emanu-El Families, On Rosh Hashanah, we began these Yamim Noraim thinking about butterflies, about change, transformation, and what it means to emerge from...
A portion of this sermon was adapted, titled “Guilt by Association” and published in the New York Daily News: read op-ed
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Dear Temple Emanu-El Families, Tonight, we begin our family journey through the Yamim Noraim, the Days of Awe, the sacred days that carry us from...
