Rabbi Marc Rudolph’s Sermons

According to the Book of Ecclesiastes “there is a time to be silent and a time to speak.” Our parasha this week demonstrates a time when perhaps it would have…

The late comedian George Karlin is perhaps best known for his 1972 monologue on the seven words you can never say on television. Quaint. Of course, that was before cable…

Contemporary essayist Steve Goodier tells a beautiful story about his 11 year old son, Robert, who was being bullied at the school bus stop by some older boys. Steve called…

Did you know that Sitting can be harmful to your health? An analysis of 13 studies of sitting time and activity levels found that those who sat for more than…

That great 19th Century African American educator Booker T. Washington exemplified the power of a simple and modest spirit. A story is told of a day when Washington, then a…

Last year Rabbi Joseph Ozerowski from the Jewish Healing Network gave a three-part seminar to our Congregation, on “Bikur Cholim”, the mitzvah of visiting the sick. The seminar was designed…

In her book Traveling Mercies, Some Thoughts on Faith, American novelist Anne Lamott writes: I was remembering an old story the other day about a man getting drunk at a…

In her 2002 album, entitled “Halos and Horns” Dolly Parton sings a ballad about an old mountain woman who people come to see from miles around. This woman had a…

We woke up on Thursday morning to the sickening news that 12 people had been killed by a gunman inside a California country-western dance bar that was hosting an event…

I sent the following internet message to CBS congregants on October 31  My Dear Congregants, Middy and I were leaving Israel Saturday night when we read the shocking news about…