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  We think of the Torah as a closed scroll that sits waiting and ready in the synagogue ark.  When

A poem in honor of Moses’ last poem from Ha’Azinu. It was written about the great violinist for the Buffalo

  In an episode from season two of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a dystopian vision of a future run by

  My favorite moment at our Shir Shalom Bnei Mitzvah celebrations is the one when the child comes up for

https://youtu.be/hPgbVFtRcuM This week’s Torah portion, Emor, begins with a dead body.  No it is not a murder mystery.  Rather it

  We Jews love to shake hands. At Congregation Shir Shalom, we shake hands before services, we shake hands after

  We are in a time of renaissance in and around Buffalo.  New buildings are popping up all over and

  An argument had broken out between a Bar Mitzvah boy and his parents. He was insisting on coming to

  We all want a yellow brick road to follow: something clear and obvious to show the path ahead.  Many

  The past is never as far away as we first imagine. At CSS, we have congregants ranging from over