Texts

A selection of texts from sermons and events at shul.

2011
Julie Strothman's Rosh Hashanah sermon, Your Community Center
Rabbi Tom's erev Rosh Hashanah sermon: The World Depends on Three Things
2011 Annual Meeting Message from Outgoing President Marty Cohn
Rabbi Tom Heyn's Consecration Ceremony Remarks
Rabbi David Meyer's Consecration Ceremony Remarks

2010/5771 Rosh Hashanah
Rabbi Tom's erev Rosh Hashanah sermon
Marty Cohn's Rosh Hashanah sermon, Be a Coffee Bean
Rabbi Tom's Kol Nidre sermon, Two Sides of the Same Coin
Rabbi Tom's Yom Kippur sermon, The 'Days of Awe' are only beginning here in Brattleboro

2009/5770 Yom Kippur
Rabbi Salzman's Kol Nidre sermon
Faith Schuster's Yom Kippur sermon

2009/5770 Rosh Hashanah
Rabbi Salzman's erev Rosh Hashanah sermon
Marty Cohn's sermon, Hineni.

October 2008
Jim's Brattleboro Reformer article on Progressive Judaism's Brave New Initiative [pdf]

2008/5769 Yom Kippur
Sandra Brodsky's sermon, on Family & Israel
Jim Levinson's sermon, Toward Reconcilliation

2008 October Brattleboro Reformer column on Progressive Judaism's Brave New Initiative [pdf] by Jim Levinson

2008/5769 Rosh Hashanah
Jim Levinson's sermon on The Community Room in our Congregation
Marty Cohn's sermon on Discernment

2007/5768 Rosh Hashanah
The End of Faith?
Jim Levinson

2007/5768 Yom Kippur
My Jewish Spiritual Transformative Journey
Jessica Cohn

2006/5767 Rosh Hashanah
What Happens When We Pray
Jim Levinson

2006/5767 Rosh Hashanah
Noa Zalud's sermon on Israel

2005/5766 Kol Nidre Sermon
Waiting for Meshiach
Jim Levinson

2005/5766 Rosh Hashanah
Getting Past Wounded Pride
Dora Levinson

2005/5766 Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon
Practicing Jews
Jim Levinson

2004/5765 Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon
Shabbat: Not Because We Have To
Jim Levinson

2004 March 30th, D'var Torah
Some Thoughts on Building a Sanctuary
Faith Schuster

2003 Jewish/Muslim Interfaith Kabbalat Shabbat Service: Ramadan Karim, Ramazan Mubarak, Shabbat Shalom
Jim Levinson

2003 erev Rosh Hashanah sermon: Pride
Jim Levinson

2003 Kol Nidre sermon: The Search for One's Soul
Jim Levinson

2002 High Holidays sermon: Israel and Hatikvah
Jim Levinson