Rabbi Sherman - Honorable Mensch-ion

As we inch closer to the end of one year and the beginning of a new one, our prophets give us hope of what the world can become. This week, Isaiah visualizes a world so different from our present one,...

Yesterday, I made my pre High Holy Day visit to Montefiore Cemetery in Philadelphia to visit my brother, Eyal, of blessed memory, who passed away nine years ago on the day after Rosh Hashanah. Over this last decade, our family...

Last Shabbat, during the Torah reading, the Sinai Clergy recognized a significant marker of community. In baseball, hitting for the cycle is a very rare occurrence. One player must hit a single, double, triple, and home run, all in the...

As we come to the concluding narrative of the Torah, through trials and tribulations, and with joy and gladness, we are told that our people are an am segula, a special and treasured nation. Each time we recite the blessing...

Our guest author this week is Rabbinic Intern Shawn Weiss, Ziegler Rabbinical School student and Alumni Fellow of the Flesh Family Sinai Temple Israel Center Rabbinical School Fellowship. How long is advice good for?  When Moses tells the Israelites in...

Our guest author this week is Rabbinic Intern Shawn Weiss, Ziegler Rabbinical School student and Alumni Fellow of the Flesh Family Sinai Temple Israel Center Rabbinical School Fellowship. Even Moses’s prayers sometimes go unanswered. When Moses prays to God in this...

Our guest author this week is Rabbinic Intern Shawn Weiss, Ziegler Rabbinical School student and Alumni Fellow of the Flesh Family Sinai Temple Israel Center Rabbinical School Fellowship. When is a story not just a story?  In this week’s parshah,...

Our guest author this week is Rabbinic Intern Shawn Weiss, Ziegler Rabbinical School student and Alumni Fellow of the Flesh Family Sinai Temple Israel Center Rabbinical School Fellowship. Gad and Reuben didn’t think of themselves as the first diaspora Jews. When...

Our guest author this week is Rabbinic Intern Shawn Weiss, Ziegler Rabbinical School student and Alumni Fellow of the Flesh Family Sinai Temple Israel Center Rabbinical School Fellowship. It’s hard to like Pinhas. At the end of last week’s parshah, Pinhas,...

Our guest author this week is Rabbinic Intern Shawn Weiss, Ziegler Rabbinical School student and Alumni Fellow of the Flesh Family Sinai Temple Israel Center Rabbinical School Fellowship. There is a verse in this week’s combined Torah portion of Hukkat-Balak...