Rabbi Rick Jacobs is the President of the Union for Reform Judaism. This blog post is reposted from RJ Blog, the blog of the Union for Reform Judaism. It is a the prepared text of Rabbi Jacobs’ closing plenary address, yesterday, November 13th, at Jewish Federation of North America’s General Assembly in Baltimore, MD. We encourage you to share Continue Reading »
Becky Raskind, a graduate of Fairmount Temple’s Religious School, and daughter to our members, Peter and Julie Raskind, keeps a blog about her experiences with the Council on International Exchange (CIEE). CIEE is a non-profit NGO, whose mission is “to help people gain understanding, acquire knowledge, and develop skills for living in a globally interdependent Continue Reading »
This blog post is excerpted from the remarks on Kabbalat Shabbat at Fairmount Temple, of Friday, November 9, 2012, of Cantor Sarah J. Sager, upon return from leading the Fairmount Temple first-ever trip to Cuba. We encourage you to share, respond and ask questions of Cantor Sager below, so that she and other members of Continue Reading »
The D’var Torah below was shared by Rivkah on Shabbat Noach at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, October 19-20, 2012. The communities celebrating Shabbat evening worship at our Chevrei Tikvah Chavurah and our Shabbat Morning Minyan, responded with the hope that these words might be shared more widely in the community, to support community members in Continue Reading »
I am writing to remind you of the upcoming sabbatical of our Rabbi Joshua Caruso, which will begin January 1, 2013 and conclude June 30, 2013. As I mentioned several months ago and again during my remarks on Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Caruso will be traveling and studying during his sabbatical and not available to serve Continue Reading »
This blog post originates from a conversation/discussion that took place at tonight’s (Friday, October 19, 2012) Shabbat worship at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, in which we will take a very serious blog post from http://punktorah.org and allow it to springboard a wide array of conversations in temple, between us, about what we can learn from Chipotle in synagogue Continue Reading »
Next time you see your child deeply engrossed in creative play, step back and try to understand that play is far more than it appears to be. Your child is deeply engrossed in learning. Why not take a break and try it out. You might find that you are just a bit more relaxed and Continue Reading »
These remarks were shared on Rosh Hashanah by our temple President Jim Levine, an annual High Holy Day tradition of hearing about the “state of the synagogue” from our lay leadership at the beginning of the Jewish New Year. We encourage you to read Jim’s report carefully, and respond with any questions below on the Continue Reading »
Our honored member and life trustee to our Fairmount Temple Board, Edith Paller, made aliyah to Israel in 2007. Upon her return to Jersualem after visiting with temple on Rosh Hashanah just a few weeks ago, she composed this short message and asked that we share it with our temple community, along with the invitation Continue Reading »
During Sukkot each year, Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple hosts a range of celebrations, holiday experiences and “uncommon conversations” under the canopy of the communal Sukkah. This year, on Friday, October 5, 2012, temple member Daniel Aarons spoke to the issue organ donation in our community, explaining its personal relevance to him as an organ donation Continue Reading »
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