On March 14th of last year, my brother Steve Mendelson died after a short bout of renal cancer. Steve was the middle brother of what my father lovingly referred to as My Three Sons, which, for those of you too young to remember, was a television show in the 1960s....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1hPJDWh6kk Note: this sermon was delivered on Erev Yom Kippur 5785, October 11, 2024, by JRC Rabbi Rachel Weiss. The full transcript is below. Psalm 92: the Psalm for Shabbat opens: Tov lehodot l’adonai. It is good to give thanks....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W6F8R2kNsI Note: this sermon was delivered on the morning of Rosh Hashanah 5785, October 3 2024, by JRC Rabbi Rachel Weiss. The full transcript is below. This year, the most difficult question to answer has been, “How are you?” We...
On the High Holidays each year, JRC invites congregants to share their personal reflections of the past year. This year, we were blessed with the chance to hear from Iman Amini, the “bonus son” of our congregation’s Frolichstein-Appel family, whose...
