Last night, three Israelis – Or Asher (32), Rotem Mansano (34), and Michael Osdon (36) – were attacked by a Palestinian terrorist in Tel Aviv. Asher is in…
Becca, Rabbi Andrew, Becca’s fiancé, Jake, and his nephew Neo-Nazis have declared tomorrow “National Day of Hate” and are encouraging antisemites to harass the Jewish community and vandalize our property. The…
Last night, I checked the local news before going to bed. Two of the three top stories on Local10.com detailed antisemitic incidents right here in South Florida. One focused…
Anti-government protest in Tel Aviv, 14 January 2023 This was a horrific weekend in Israel. Seven people were killed at a Jerusalem synagogue on Shabbat in what Israel…
As we prepare for Shabbat, we’re ending another horrific week in our country. Judaism teaches us that tonight, like every Friday night, each of us will be joined…
In this week’s VLOG, I respond to recent Supreme Court decisions that are hostile to the Jewish tradition, the separation of Church and State and the rights of…
As we prepare to enter Pesach, let us not forget that our Ukrainian brothers and sisters are living the horrors of a modern-day Exodus. While many Ukrainians are…
As the war in Ukraine continues to wreak havoc and we hear more and more reports of the horrors committed by Russian troops against Ukrainians, we must respond.…
Following the death of former Miss USA and television personality, Cheslie Kryst, our dear congregant, Shari Wallack z”l, posted on Facebook: I know what you are thinking – “she had everything” – but…
My congregation, Ramat Shalom, was founded 46 years ago as a Reconstructionist synagogue. Lots of people are unfamiliar with the Reconstructionist Movement, the theology it embraces and the…
Rabbi Andrew Jacobs and Cantor Debbie Hafetz As your spiritual leaders and as spiritual leaders in the State of Florida, we want to make it explicitly clear that…