Rabbi’s Thoughts

As I write these words we’re several weeks away from Thanksgiving, but the “Christmas Wars” have already begun. The first salvo was fired at Starbucks Coffee. Joshua Feuerstein—a self-described [...]

In late October I submitted the following testimony before the Joint Public Health Committee of the legislature in support of H.B. 1991, “The Compassionate Care for the Terminally Ill [...]

Learned Helplessness They say These clever scientist folks, That there is such a thing As learned helplessness; Cage a rat Subject it To repeated trauma Until it is so [...]

In preparation for my Rosh Hashanah (5776) morning sermon, I read a number of books and essays on the themes or racism and white privilege. Here are some of [...]

[Remarks offered by Rabbi Lieberman at the celebration of his 25th anniversary with FJC, Aug. 8, 2015] Friends....I am at this moment, as they say in Mamaloshen (Yiddish), farklempt....”unable [...]

As I write these words the reverberations of two events that occurred nine days apart in June continue to be felt in our nation. On June 17, nine members [...]

One of my favorite proverbs states: “The one who sings prays twice.” What about the one who sings, shouts, stomps her feet and dances in the aisles? Now that [...]

Among the signs that spring on Cape Cod has truly arrived (and that the threat of rogue snowstorms has truly passed) is a distinctive sound one begins to hear [...]

Do you have a dollar bill at hand? If so, take it out and look, for a moment, at the back side of the bill. There, to the left [...]

What are the tools you keep at hand to accomplish those specific tasks you deem important? A computer/smart-phone to help you stay connected? That rolling pin with the perfect [...]