The westernmost member of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
Rabbi Rosalind Bio
Ordained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) in 2003, Rabbi Rosalind Glazer made Aliyah in 2012. After moving to Jerusalem to serve as Interim Director for RRC’s rabbinical program in Israel, she founded Joyful Jerusalem Lifecycles and Destination Celebrations where… Continue reading
High Holy Days at Sof
Message from Rabbi Rosalind Glazer
Dear Friends,
I write to you from my home office in Jerusalem as I watch the summer sun slip away and I begin feeling the pivot toward Elul. With the final month of the Jewish… Continue reading
High Holy Days Service Schedule 5780 (2019)
Rosh HaShanah Services:
Sun. Sept 29 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM (with dessert potluck after services)
Mon. Sept 30 9:00 AM-12:30 PM (apples/honey dairy/parve potluck)
Tue. Oct 1 9:00 AM-12:30 PM (apples/honey dairy/parve potluck)
Shabbat Shuvah Saturday Morning Services:… Continue reading
Levinson-Krupp Library
Levinson-Krupp Library
This library was dedicated 50 years ago to the memory of Rebecca Lewin Levinson and Brannette Mayer Krupp by Justice and Mrs. Bernard Levinson. Over the years the library fell into disrepair, but starting in 2005 was redesigned… Continue reading
The Meaning of Each Braid
By Peter Fritz
Recently, I made several braided round challahs. Some people may have wondered why. After all, it is not Rosh Hashanah. I often make round braided challahs for events like bar/bat mitzvahs, baby naming and weddings because it… Continue reading
Membership Dues
It is a new year and time for Sof members to pay their dues. We all love what we have at Sof; this is a joyous time of year to celebrate and to sustain our congregation.
Annual Membership Dues Invoice… Continue reading
To Seek Life: Upon My Mother’s Yahrzeit, I Remember
By Sandra Z. Armstrong
I was born Sandra Zimmerman, with a ventricular septal defect (VSD) – a hole in my heart. For some born with a VSD, the hole closes naturally. Mine did not. In 1922, Dora Moness Shapiro established… Continue reading
Holy Cow! – Parsha Chukat
By Naomi Olstein
While parsha Chukat deals with many topics, it begins with parah adumah, the red heifer. It is the most enigmatic mitzvah in all of Torah. More than a mitzvah, it is chukat haTorah – Law of the… Continue reading
Mazal Tov! – Amira’s Wedding
By Marlene Booth
Let me set the stage. Our daughter Amira wanted to get married at Raananah, a very small Jewish bungalow colony, originally Labor-Zionist, in New York state, in which Avi’s family spent time every summer since the… Continue reading
- Forbidden Fruit, Rosh HaShanah, and Our Climate CrisisAccording to Hasidic traditions, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, from the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, worked in a deeper way than we usually think about it. It’s not just that after the eating of the fruit we humans could distinguish between good and evil. The test […]
- Modern Jewish Mystical MastersThis fall, as part of the Me’ah Select program at Hebrew Union College, Rabbi Natan Margalit will teach a class on the thought, practices and lives of some of the most profound and influential Jewish mystics of the modern era. Building on the earlier mystical traditions of heavenly ascents, Zohar, Lurianic Kabbalah, numerology and early […]