It's a 3-Day Purim!
It’s still Purim! Shushan Purim is a thing every year. Even in the time of Mordecai and Esther, Purim was celebrated on a different day...
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The God Show Podcast With Pat McMahon - Ep. 282 Israel under attack. How could it happen?
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Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
- Feb 28, 2021
- 3 min
Esther, Vashti, and Women Leaders
We can still talk about Purim, right? Purim may have officially ended when we lit candles and entered into Shabbat. However, in some...
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Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
- Jan 23, 2021
- 3 min
Alex Trebek and Parshat Bo
You may have missed a sad, recent event in the news. Overshadowed by current events, the death of Alex Trebek, long time host of...
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Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
- Jan 4, 2021
- 3 min
New Year's Day 2021- Chazak, Chazak. . .
Chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek- that’s what we’ll say at the end of this week’s parsha, and it seems to be a good prayer for the end of 2020...
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Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
- Dec 26, 2020
- 4 min
Judaism and Christianity: A Rabbi's Christmas Sermon
Updated: Dec 8 It’s impossible to ignore today’s date. December 25th. As a Jewish minority living among a Christian majority, we can’t...
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Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
- Nov 27, 2020
- 4 min
National Day of Listening
Did you know that today is a holiday? And I don’t mean “Black Friday?” I only recently learned that StoryCorps has informally...
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Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
- Oct 4, 2020
- 9 min
The Five Languages of Apology- Yom Kippur 2020
A member of our community recently shared with me his frustration that he had apologized to someone, “I’m sorry, please forgive me,” and...
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Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
- Oct 4, 2020
- 7 min
This I Believe- Rosh HaShanah 2020
A few lyrics- “I believe the children are our future.” So sings Whitney Houston, and I am inclined to agree. “Do you believe in life...
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Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
- Sep 12, 2020
- 3 min
September 11, 2020
September 11, 2020 It’s Sept. 11th. You just can’t ignore that date. Or maybe you can? It’s hard to believe it was 19 years ago, so...
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Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
- Jun 6, 2020
- 5 min
A Time For Introspection
I want to invite you to take a breath. A deep breath. Let it out slowly and luxuriously. Pause now, and, at your leisure, inhale once...
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Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
- May 24, 2020
- 3 min
BaMidbar and COVID-19: Forty Days? Forty Months? Forty Years?
According to the Torah, we are just now, with this week’s parsha, entering Bamidbar/the wilderness. According to us, it feels like 40...
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Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
- Apr 28, 2020
- 3 min
Tazria, Metzora, and Social Distancing 2020
Tazria, Metzora, and Social Distancing- 2020 Rabbi Bonnie Koppell An unknown illness erupts. Waiting for a diagnosis, and then,...
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Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
- Apr 18, 2020
- 3 min
Nadav, Avihu, and COVID-19
I trust everyone had a good Pesach and our Torah reading this week, Shemini, finds us exactly half-way through the Torah. It is AMAZING...
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Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
- Mar 12, 2020
- 3 min
Shabbat Parah: Clean Hands and a Pure Heart
March 26th will be the first day of the month of Nisan, the month in which Passover occurs. That means that next Shabbat, March 21, is...
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Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
- Feb 20, 2020
- 3 min
I Know That Valentine's Day is NOT a Jewish Holiday. . . .
I remember a few years ago- I was standing in the lobby, having just returned from a period of military service. I think I might have...
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Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
- Feb 9, 2020
- 4 min
Locusts, Trees, and Tu Bishvat
Did you know that the word Elohim, God, and the word ha-tevah, nature, have the same numerical value in Hebrew? While Jews are not...
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Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
- Jan 28, 2020
- 15 min
Judaism By The Numbers
Talk delivered at Community Church of the Verdes, 27 January, 2020, Rabbi Bonnie Koppell Well, it is a daunting task that you have set...
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Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
- Jan 6, 2020
- 3 min
Vayigash: "Being Right/Being Happy"
A couple of weeks ago, Ron and I were pondering a challenging situation, and he said something that I can’t stop thinking about. His...
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Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
- Dec 3, 2019
- 3 min
Let’s make every day Thanksgiving
Yesterday we celebrated Thanksgiving, the quintessential American holiday focused on gratitude and based on the Biblical holiday of...
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Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
- Nov 27, 2019
- 6 min
Two Inspiring Stories
SAM AND DEDE/LAURAL AND ARNIE This is the story of Laural and Arnie Sigal and Dede and Sam Harris- how they became friends, how that...
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