Times That Try Our Souls
"These are times that try men‘s [and women’s] souls,” said Thomas Paine, the political activist who helped inspire the American Revolution. Wouldn’t it be so wonderful if we could wake up to a world in which everyone was treated equally? Wouldn’t it be so wonderful if superheroes could save us from all the maladies facing the world, a pandemic which continues to take many lives, massive unemployment, food shortages, just fighting the good fight against injustice where goodness triumphs over evil allowing us to be free? This is the stuff that dreams are made of and are no strangers to Jewish life. Too often as history’s victims, we have clung to a vision of God’s redemption, our return to our homeland and the ushering in of the messianic era...continue reading |
What Is Hateful to You Do Not Do Unto Others
The world feels different these days and all of us are doing our best to adapt to the necessary changes of living in a COVID 19 world. When we emerge from our homes, we may notice we are looking at others we encounter with cautious suspicion while taking a walk or while shopping in grocery or drug stores. We notice people not taking necessary precautions entering our body space, we hear someone coughing and we wonder as we say to ourselves, Uh-oh, is this person getting sick, is this person contagious? It’s not easy adapting to a COVID 19 world when all any of us want is a return to some sense of normalcy...continue reading |
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High Holidays 5781 / 2020
We are pleased to announce we will be conducting High Holy Day services this year, Amichai’s 10th year, online, in deference to the realities of our times. We are sensitive to physical distancing restrictions understanding that not much, if anything, will have changed with respect to public health restrictions on mass gatherings between now and September. We always take every health precaution possible. We hope you will join us for both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services as so many of you have done for the past 9 years. Instructions and details will be available mid-summer. |
AMICHAI was founded...
Rabbi Debra Nesselson
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...in 2011 as one response to our changing times. Many participating in Jewish life are also experimenting with new modes of engagement and outreach. Part of Amichai’s journey forward is based upon an understanding that change happens; it is a constant of our lives. We do not discard tradition; indeed, it is tradition’s shoulders we stand upon as we look ahead—blending the old with the new, undeterred and unafraid. We have never been the ever-dying people but, rather, the ever-living people. Continue...
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Last night an energetic and committed group of individuals met as part of the Amichai Community to brainstorm ideas to engage in acts of loving kindness within and beyond our community.
Amichai Tikkun Olam Gathering
May 11, 2017
A rabbi without a pulpit for Jews without a shul
15 American Rabbis You Haven’t Heard Of, But Should
by Yair Rosenberg
Tablet, September 15, 2014
Any time an American leader draws moral equivalency between neo-Nazis marching and those demonstrating against them, we have to ask...
What Is Happening to Our Country?
A rabbi without a pulpit for Jews without a shul
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Is religious belief declining or just reshaping itself?
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