Weekly Sermons
2022
About the Attack in the Synagogue in Texas: PDF Here, Youtube Video Here
Advice for President Biden: The Torah’s Guide for How to Choose a Judge: PDF Here
Lessons from the Invasion of Ukraine: PDF Here, Youtube Video Here
When a leader Sins: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: PDF Here, Youtube Video Here
2021
Foreigner or Resident: Which Are We?
What is the Measure of a Life?
What Jacob, Joseph, and his Siblings Can Teach us About Family Reconciliation
2019
Lessons From a Civil Rights Mission
Aipac Policy Conference: An Objective Perspective
The Sign that We Are Still in Business
2019 Confirmation Class Message
2017
After a Visit to Auschwitz: Questions About the Holocaust
2016
"Will You Still Love Me When I'm 64?"
Dylan and Moses: Two Poets and Prophets
Aharei Mot: After the Holocaust
Shabbat HaGadol: To Kitniyot or Not?
2015
Jacob - The First Syrian Refugee
Lech Lecha: Go Forth and What I Told the Prime Minister
Why Sandy Koufax Still Matters
Does God Have a Favorite in the Belmont Stakes?
2014
The Rape of Dinah - and Other Stories in the News
Massacre in a Jerusalem Synagogue
Is there a Connection between Yom HaShoah & Yom HaAtzmaut?
Not Forgetting What We Are Supposed to Remember
2013
What Will Hindsight Tell Us About Our Negotiations With Iran?
Knaydels Make a Splash at Spelling Bee
Looking Back at Auschwitz and Forward to Israel
Are you a Passover or Purim Jew?
Journey to Jewish Heritage Report
The Miracle of Jewish Life in Kiev
2012
The March that Changed the World
Desecrating and Sanctifying God’s Holy Name in the NY Times
The Kid, the Couple and the Baseball
Sparks of Life: Impressions of Hungary on Shabbat Zachor
2011
The Ad Campaign to Bring Jacob Home
Message to Confirmation Class of 2011
Shabbat Zachor 2011: Massacre in Itamar
VaYikra - Is Sacrifice a Thing of the Past?
A Letter to the Egyptian People
2010
The Mosque and the Lack of Civility
Confirmation Class Message 2010
2009
Judah Maccabee's Nobel Peace Prize Speech
Jared and Ivanka and Edward and Caroline
"Hood" - Violence at Fort Hood
Imagining John Lennon's "Imagine" - and the Tower of Babel
BeHa'alotheca: A GPS for the Way
One Rabbi's Reaction to the "Speech to the Muslim World"
Can We Learn from Moses' Accounting?
What I Said to the President on his First Day in Office
2008
Lessons from a Super Super Bowl
The 60th Anniversary of the Founding of Israel
We Answer to a Higher Authority
One Last Barrier of Prejudice Yet to Fall
2007
JCRC Speech: "Pillar of the Community Leadership Award"
The Six Day War - Forty Years Later
Kedoshim 2007: Love and Limits
Yom Ha Shoah VA Tech and the Holocaust
A Time to Celebrate and a Time to Remember: Purim 2007
Terumah 2007: UJC Super Sunday
Israel After the Second Hezbollah War
2006
Invocation for the Inauguration of County Executive Isiah Leggett
DC Rally for Solidarity with Israel
Parashat Shemini 2006: Kashrut
Why is this Night Different? - Passover 2006
2005
Intelligent Design VS Evoluation - Bereshit 2005
Judging Others, Judging Ourselves: Shoffim 2005
A Painful Move: My Israel Trip - July 2005
Message to My Confirmation Class 2005
Yom HaZikaran/Yom HaAtmaat: Independence Day and Memorial Day 2005
The Holocaust, Helmets and Holiness
The Measure of a Man: Pope John II
Sixtieth Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz
God is in the Whirlwind: The Tsunami of 2004 (Va'fra)
2004
The Death and "Legacy" of Arafat
Joe Lieberman for President: Did We Miss an Opportunity?
HIPPA Regulations: Is it Illegal to Pray for Someone?
Preserving the Memory of Sinai
2003
From Abrahan to Auswhitz to Washington
Baseball and Curses: Failed Again
Ilan Ramon: Israel Reaches for the Stars
2002
Pro-Israel Rally at the University of Maryland
Rabbi Weinblatt's Statement in Front of the Egyptian Embassy
Having a Son in the Israeli Army
2001
Ecumencial Experiences and Yom Hashoah
Thu, July 7 2022
8 Tammuz 5782
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