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Add 1 Shabbat Practice

September 29, 2019 By Rabbi Dean Shapiro

Whether on your own or as a family, contemplate this list of behaviors. Decide which you can reasonably do, and which you might find nourishing. Bring flowers home on Friday. Share Shabbat Dinner Make it a regular thing Invite friends over Call/Face-time/Skype with special people. Set the table on Friday night/Erev Shabbat with linens and […]

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Adopt 1 Mitzvah

September 29, 2019 By Rabbi Dean Shapiro

On Rosh Hashanah, I proposed we embrace our Judaism by committing to seven specific acts in the year ahead. I’ll use this space to remind you of them in these intermediary days. ADOPT ONE MIZTVAH Mitzvot are commandments, for centuries the backbone of Jewish culture. We, as post-modern Reform Jews, struggle with the idea of […]

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Subscribe to 1 Jewish Source

September 27, 2019 By Rabbi Dean Shapiro

Subscribe to one Jewish cource….

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Add one shabbat practice

November 14, 2019 By Rabbi Dean Shapiro

We are, as a whole, over worked, over stimulated, over extended, over indulged. Judaism has a technology, a tool designed for the job of helping us slow down, re-connect, and remember who we really are – not just workers, but children of God. That technology is called Shabbat. Shabbat is a set of practices that […]

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Read 1 Jewish Book

October 17, 2019 By Rabbi Dean Shapiro

Read 1 Jewish Book We are a highly literate people, and this is a golden age of Jewish literature. Fiction, history, spirituality and mysticism, the arts, culture, language, even graphic novels: think of one topic, and read one book. Our synagogue library is filled with great books, and I’d be very happy to help you […]

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Give to One More Jewish Cause

October 15, 2019 By Rabbi Dean Shapiro

  I proposed we embrace our Judaism by committing to seven specific acts in the year ahead. I’ll use this space to remind you of them in these intermediary days. The giving of tzedakah is a fundamental Jewish practice. It’s how we know the stereotype of the greedy Jew is a lie. Giving benefits the […]

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Humility

July 1, 2019 By Rabbi Dean Shapiro

Rabbi Dean’s Torah Commentary  on humility published in the Jewish News June 2019

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5780/2019 High Holidays

July 1, 2019 By admin

High Holy Days Schedule Purchase Tickets Tickets are free to members and available to purchase by non-members for $125 per person per holiday. Temple Emanuel members can purchase tickets for additional family members at a discounted rate of $90 per person per holiday. Book of Remembrance The Yom Kippur Memorial Book lists the names of our […]

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Religious School Year at a Glance

March 31, 2019 By admin

Year at a Glance 2019-2020 Religious School registration is open for the 2019-20 school year.      

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Photos from Guatemala

January 30, 2019 By admin

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