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Parashat Shemini: Do You Need to Apologize? Be Sure to Listen First JCC Association | April 8, 2021 1 By Rabbi Bonnie Koppell How hard, or easy, is it for you to say, “I was wrong, I apologize, [...]

Beetle Bailey and Ki Tissa Rabbi Bonnie Koppell   Here are a couple of interesting numbers: 14, 981 17, 896 23, 746 Any idea what they represent?  These are the number of days that each of [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

         According to the Torah, we are just now, with this week’s parsha, entering Bamidbar/the wilderness.  According to us, it feels like 40 years [...]

Tazria, Metzora, and Social Distancing- 2020 Rabbi Bonnie Koppell          An unknown illness erupts.  Waiting for a diagnosis, and then, [...]

Nadav, Avihu, and COVID-19 Rabbi Bonnie Koppell          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 [...]

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 comment was-  “I don’t need to be right, I just [...]

           This is probably an odd confession for a rabbi- I struggle with a sense of faith. As someone who is too often in the human tragedy [...]

         Parshat B’har speaks of fundamental issues of justice and equality.  “And you shall proclaim liberty to all the inhabitants of the land, to [...]