What Is Happening to Our Country? |
High Holy Day Services 5778 |
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What is happening to our country? Certainly, just simmering beneath the surface there has always been divisiveness and discrimination, hatred and prejudice, Anti-Semitism, a long history of slavery and racism but a nation also torn asunder going to war to combat it. What is happening to our country....
Last Friday night, August 11, 2017, here is what Neo-Nazi white supremacists uttered while marching with torches in the warm Virginia night: You (African Americans) will not replace us. Jews will not replace us. Blood and soil, blood and soil, blood and soil. We have profoundly disturbing problems in our country and in the world, but in our own backyard white supremacists are now emboldened to remove their robes feeling legitimized and normalized by the President and by the alt right movement and press.... |
The New Year 5778 is approaching. It is truly an honor to share the High Holidays with so many of you. To usher in the High Holidays we welcome you once again to our home at the Highland Park Country Club.
Together we are building a community overflowing with warmth and spirit, a community for which we can all be grateful. 
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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 (May 10, 2017)
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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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