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Different Hands, Same Soul: My Visit to El Salvador with American Jewish World Service – Student Rabbi Scott Fox

Posted on October 7, 2012

Our student rabbi Scott Fox shared the following teachings at Shabbat Services on Friday, September 28, 2012, at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple. Scott participated this summer in a visit to Ciudad Romero in El Salvador, a trip sponsored by American Jewish World Service. He is returning to Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple for his 2nd year, and the Continue Reading »

Lead Me Into the Mystery – Rabbi Joshua L. Caruso, Yom Kippur 5773

Posted on September 27, 2012

In rabbinical school, we had a wonderful Talmud professor named Michael Chernick – we liked him because he was not your typical seminary teacher. He was impolitic, unpolished, but surprisingly aware of what we rabbis-to-be were experiencing – he had our number. And there were times when he departed from the expected course of study Continue Reading »

An Armed Amalek: Why We Must Not Stand Idly By – Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk, Yom Kippur Sermon 2012

Posted on September 27, 2012

(Pictured above) – The FHN 57, a popular weapon at local gun stores, nicknamed the “cop-killer” based on its lethal capacity to pierce police body armor. Rabbi Nosanchuk wore a police body vest pierced by a powerful rifle round during his remarks, in order to raise awareness among community members about the dangers of inaction Continue Reading »

Jack Black and the Pintele Yid – Rabbi Joshua Caruso, Erev Rosh Hashanah 5773

Posted on September 20, 2012

Below is the Sermon from Rabbi Joshua Caruso at Erev Rosh Hashanah in the Contemporary Service at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, Sunday, September 16, 2012. We invite you to share your responses, forward and share these remarks with others, as we seek to engender discussion and dialogue on “If Not Now, When?” the interactive blog Continue Reading »

Today You, Tomorrow Me – Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk: Rosh Hashanah Morning 5773

Posted on September 18, 2012

Below is the sermon shared by Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple on Monday, September 17, 2012. These remarks were shared at the congregational service for Rosh Hashanah morning at the beginning of 5773. We offer them below for your comments and interpretations, for you to share and link with others, here on Continue Reading »

Ready to Be a Rav Ba-Yisrael – Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk; Rosh Hashanah Evening- Congregational Service Sermon

Posted on September 17, 2012

Below are the remarks shared by Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk at Erev Rosh Hashanah worship at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, in the congregational service on Sunday, September 16, 2012. We invite you to share responses, or to forward these remarks and the link to our blog to others, as we seek to engender important discussion and dialogue about Israel Continue Reading »

The Resilience of Reconciliation – Comments by Fairmount Temple Stern Social Action Speaker Dr. Chris Seiple

Posted on September 15, 2012

The comments below were published by the Institute for Global Engagement (http://globalengage.org) in December of 2011, written by Dr. Chris Seiple, our Stern Social Action Speaker for 2012,when he presented to the U.S. Special Operations Command conference. Dr. Chris Seiple is the President of the Institute for Global Engagement. His presentation below is presented for our Continue Reading »

Revolution! Fairmount Temple chosen as site for B’nai Mitzvah Revolution in Cleveland – Cantor Sager

Posted on September 13, 2012

Today I am a man!” It is immediately recognizable. It is a cultural phenomenon. It is a term known to Jews and non-Jews alike and a source of endless jokes, of too-frequent and ostentatious excess, of caricature and misunderstanding. It has become so ubiquitous in the media that both The Simpsons and Frasier have featured Continue Reading »

The Internal Enemy on 9/11 – A D’var Torah reposted from Rabbi Laura Geller

Posted on September 11, 2012

This post is reposted from a post by Rabbi Laura Geller, our rabbinical colleague at Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills, CA, from Huffingtonpost.com. We present it to you as a reflection from Torah on September 11, eleven years after the tragic day in 2001 when our nation was struck by terror. May we never forget. Continue Reading »

Rabbis Leading Prayer at National Party Conventions

Posted on September 10, 2012

This blog post is excerpted from a sermon shared by Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, during Shabbat services on Friday, September 7, 2012, immediately after the conclusion of the Republican and Democratic National Party Conventions of 2012. In this talk, he is responding to the new development of seeing prominent rabbis speaking Continue Reading »