FROM RABBI LIEBERMAN
Thoughts on Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance & Inclusion Month
[February, when I wrote this column, is Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance and Inclusion Month (JDAIM), a time educate ourselves and others. For 13 years now, Jewish communities have united to support efforts to promote inclusion and acceptance. Learn more and find resources at: https://inclusioninnovations.com/jdaim/] One Shabbat morning, seventeen years [...]
Is it time to recite Kaddish?
Is it time to recite Kaddish? The prayer known as Kaddish has several forms, but the one most familiar to Jews is referred to as the Mourner’s Kaddish, recited when a loved one dies and, subsequently, on the yahrzeit–the anniversary–of that loved one’s death. The prayer itself makes no [...]
Lessons (to date) From the Pandemic
Lessons (to date) From the Pandemic 1) Joy delayed is not joy diminished. As I write these words in early October, we are two-fifths of the way through this year’s b’nei mitzvah “season”, five consecutive Shabbat mornings when we celebrate a young person’s coming-of-age and their being called to [...]
The Story of the East End Meeting House
The Story of the East End Meeting House June, 2021 In November, 2020 Rabbi Lieberman took part in a history project organized by Falmouth Public Library in which local “historians” were asked to speak about specific postcards and images in the library’s “Falmouth Postcards” collection. In his segment, Rabbi [...]
Half-a-million gone…..
Half-a-million gone... For over a month now, the lyrics of a Joni Mitchell song—“Woodstock”—have been running through my head: By the time we got to Woodstock We were half a million strong And everywhere there was song and celebration... That song is something of a Baby Boomer anthem, a [...]
Narrow Bridge
Narrow Bridge November, 2020 I began writing this column on Election Day and it is quite possible that this issue will go to press before the results of the presidential election have been resolved. Like many of us, over the past few weeks I have grown increasingly anxious, distracted [...]