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Mitzvah Project or a Life of Mitzvot
2025
Developing Gratitude
Solomon Schechter School of Queens
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Kindness: A Cure for Stress
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Honoring Bertha Strauss
2024
More Insights After October 7th
Even More Insights After October 7th
HJC Wants You!
When in Rome
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Timing is Everything
Back from Ft. Jackson
Good News and Happy Birthday, Joan
Stay Positive
The Day After the Elections
2023
Homelessness and Mental Health in NY City
The Selling of the Building
Back from Chaplain School
30 Years of Rabbinic Ordination
The Wicked Child
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Welcoming Cantor Rachel and Nadine
Passing of Cantor Fuchs and High Holy Days
Recognizing Shlichei Tzibur (Beth Ritter's Speech)
Remember What Amalek Did to You: Simchat Torah Massacre
Insights After October 7th
2022
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Don't Look Up
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Ukraine
Yom Hashoah Message
Visit to LDS Temple
Eagle Scout Pin of Mentorship
Military Chaplain
New Demographic Reality
Rabbi Kogan is Going to School
No News: Excellent News
Elections Results
2021
Keeping the Flame and Hope
My Tallit and Tefilin Were Stolen
My Rabbinate in Less Than 60 Words
One Year with COVID
Chosenness
Israel Was Not Created for Evangelical Christians
Finishing Kaddish
Time and Duration of Services
COVID-19: Less Judging and More Compassion
The Importance of Buildings
2020
Farewell to Cantor and Lesley Fuchs
No Hate, No Fear (Bari Weiss's Address)
Turn Off Your Phone for Thanksgiving
The Torah is Only Acquired in a Group
COVID-19
Synagogue as a Community
More on COVID-19
Let the Year End, and Its Curses
Kol Nidrei Campaign
Reflecting on the Tishrei Holidays
2020 Elections
2019
Shtisel and the Other
Child Abuse - Jewish Week
Ilhan Omar's Anti-Semitic Remarks
Israeli Elections
Invocation at Holy Family after Sri Lanka
Reflections from Israel
Either Friendship or Death
15 Most Important Questions
Anne Marie's Birthright
2018
Jerusalem as Israel's Capital
Disagreements of Love
Memorial Torah Scroll - Revised
Commentary's Article from 1955
March for Our Lives
Joint Trip to Israel
The Uniqueness of Leaders
UJA Survey
Sabbatical
Reflections on Pittsburgh
2017
Complimentary Siddur Lev Shalem
Proud of Israel
Pesach - Time of Rebirth
Joint Trip to Israel
Interfaith Meeting
Rabbi Romano's Message
A New Year Message…
The Day After
Thanksgiving and Cheshvan
Bonds Breakfast
2015
The Woodcutter's Axe