Alex Trebek and Parshat Bo Rabbi Bonnie Koppell You may have missed a sad, recent event in the news. Overshadowed by current events, the death of Alex Trebek, long time host of [...]
New Year’s Day 2021- Chazak, Chazak. . . Rabbi Bonnie Koppell 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 [...]
Judaism and Christianity: A Rabbi’s Christmas Sermon Rabbi Bonnie Koppell Temple Chai- Phoenix, Arizona Dec. 25, 2020 It’s impossible to ignore today’s date. December 25th. As a [...]
National Day of Listening- Rabbi Bonnie Koppell Did you know that today is a holiday? And I don’t mean “Black Friday?” I only recently learned that StoryCorps has informally designated today, [...]
A member of our community recently shared with me his frustration that he had apologized to someone, “I’m sorry, please forgive me,” and he sensed that [...]