by Rabbi Heidi Cohen | Jun 28, 2024 | Newsletter
Music brings people together and our Songs of Gratitude event was successful in bringing HaNefesh together to celebrate four years of doing and living Jewish. Thanks to everyone who joined us on Friday, HaNefesh Shabbat services with Sue Horowitz and then Saturday’s...
by Rabbi Heidi Cohen | May 23, 2024 | Newsletter
This weekend we observe Memorial Day. This is a time that we are to remember the people who gave their lives in service to our country and defended our country so that we can live as a free nation. Memorial Day has become a time of sales and the start of the summer...
by Rabbi Heidi Cohen | May 16, 2024 | Newsletter
Last weekend, we did a thing…we planted a garden. We started with some grow bags and then a trip to a nursery for vegetable plants we knew we would like to eat. Admittedly, we could have bought a lot of vegetables for the amount we paid for plants and soil, but the...
by Rabbi Heidi Cohen | May 9, 2024 | Newsletter
Yom HaAtzmaut, Israel Independence Day begins on Monday night, May 13. This year, as with many of the holidays since October 7th, it seems even more important to celebrate Jewish life. In 1948, the world watched as Ben Gurion, the Chairman of the Jewish Agency,...
by Rabbi Heidi Cohen | May 2, 2024 | Newsletter
On January 30, 1933, 91 years ago, Hitler came to power and began the long road of building a case against the Jewish people that would lead to the murder of close to 7 million Jews and 11 million people during the Holocaust. It didn’t happen overnight, rather,...
by Rabbi Heidi Cohen | Apr 25, 2024 | Newsletter
Why did we let it happen? Why didn’t we just get out? How could we just let them lead us to the gas chambers? How could we let people push us out of businesses, schools, and our communities? These were questions from not only after the Holocaust, but these are...
