Rabbi Marc Rudolph’s Sermons

A Good YearGood evening. Once again, on behalf of the Cantor and myself, I want to welcome you to our High Holiday services.  Some of us have been together greeting…

The Songs of our LivesIt was really an extraordinary sight!!! A totally unexpected, amazing and startling scene!! During our congregational trip to Israel this summer, we visited Masada, King Herod's…

Regaining our Sense of PurposeThe year was 1936. The Olympics were being held in Germany, and two Jewish men, Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller, were in Berlin to compete as…

Enlarging our TentLast week I attended a fascinating Webinar hosted by an organization called "Jumpstart." This was a webinar held exclusively for rabbis across the United States to share the…

We The PeopleFor me, one of the most significant things about our first congregational trip to Israel this June was seeing Israel through fresh, bright and clear eyes.  Although I…

Justice and Trayvon MartinThis summer I had the opportunity   to do some readings that I had put off for too long. One of these readings was a book entitled The…

What Makes a Person? It happened again last week, as it has happened countless times every year , in every synagogue, in every country of the world, in every era. We…

How should one address the spiritual leader of a synagogue? When I was a seminarian at the Academy for Jewish Religion, I had a student pulpit at a small synagogue…

In a few days it will be Mothers Day. Of course,we should not need a special day in the year to honor our mothers -- every day should be "Mothers…

Rewards and PunishmentThe story is told of one Rabbi Samuel, who, on a visit to Rome, found a bracelet. The next day the Empress announced that she had lost a…