June 2022 Bulletin
Read about what’s going on in our congregation and community.
News
Rabbinic Speech at Abortion Rally
Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz News Reproductive Freedom
My presence is not a political act; it is a moral stance, an expression of my deepest religious values and a fulfilment of the obligations of Jewish ethics.
Context Is Everything
Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz News, Sermon Kedoshim
Please allow me to start this sermon with oversharing. One of the weirder trivia about me is that I had three children in three different countries.
Anne Frank Tree Planting Speech by Rabbi Hugenholtz
There is a story in the Talmud about a man and a tree.
May 2022 Bulletin
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Sermon Pesach 2022
Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz News, Sermon Pesach
‘Feeling like a Passover Pariah? You’re not alone!’ This was the kind of New York Times headline that immediately grabbed my attention.
We Don’t Talk About Pharaoh
We Don’t Talk About Pharaoh (To the tune of “We Don’t Talk About Bruno”)
Time for Rest and Healing
Rabbi Esther Hugenholtz News, Sermon Tazria
The meaning of Tazria – of both the woman after childbirth and the ‘metzora’ (the person afflicted by tzara’at, a skin condition affecting the individual) – is the implicit and explicit reality of rest and healing.
