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Addiction is a topic people seldom want to talk about.  In the Jewish world we often assume it's "someone else's problem."

Yet more and more, addiction is moving into the mainstream,  affecting Jewish families more often than we might think.

Opiate pain medications such as Vicodin or Percocet are commonly prescribed for...Read more...

I would like to introduce you to perhaps one of the simplest yet controversial passages in the entire Torah. We will recite it this Monday night, as we complete our reading of the Torah on the holiday of Simchat Torah.

It inspires us to ask the question, "Who wrote the Torah?"

I began pondering this question about fifteen years ago, as I...Read more...

Shannah tovah, everyone...

If there is one obsession that the clergy and lay leaders have as we continue to grow as a congregation, its understanding trends....

For if there is one thing that is certain...it's that times change and will continue to do so...

You are not your parents...and your children are not you....

We have developed a group...Read more...

Exactly fifty years ago, on a sunny day in Montreal, I stepped into my tailored blue suit, picked up my neatly folded tallit, and, with my parents, brother, and grandparents, began the ten-minute walk to my bar mitzvah.

The world was different then.

Lyndon Johnson was President of the United States. Lester B. Pearson was Prime Minister of...Read more...

There is a story told in the Talmud about a wise man named Honi, the Circle Drawer who one day came upon an elderly man planting a carob tree.

Honi asked the man, "How long do you think it take for that tree to bear fruit?"

The man replied, "Seventy years."

Honi then asked the man, "And do you think you will live...Read more...