by hazzantzius | Dec 21, 2011 | Featured
For those of you who missed the concert, please watch the highlights! More video to come! [youtubegallery] Highlights from the Afro-Semitic Experience|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gstS7Xn11ZA Shomeir Yisrael|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp0fuDFd5wc...
by hazzantzius | Dec 13, 2011 | Featured, Judaism, Music
One of the most famous of Christmas songs is by a Jewish composer: Irving Berlin. I don’t care what face tradition you grew up with; White Christmas is a terrific song and it makes me think of the season. But where are all the great Hanukkah songs? Where is the...
by hazzantzius | Oct 8, 2011 | Featured, Sermon
Rabbi Alvin Reines, professor of philosophy at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1958 until his death in 2004, taught that religion exists because we realize that we are each destined to die. Because our life is finite, with a beginning and an end, we...
by hazzantzius | Sep 30, 2011 | Sermon
On September 21, 2011, at 10:53 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, Troy Davis was executed by the state of Georgia. He was tried and convicted for the assault of two men and the murder of a third, a police officer, in Savannah, Georgia in August of 1989. As with other...
by hazzantzius | Feb 17, 2011 | Featured, Sermon
God passed by before [Moses] and proclaimed, “The Eternal God, the Eternal God, omnipotent, merciful and kind, slow to anger, with tremendous love and truth. Who remembers deeds of love for thousands [of generations], forgiving sin, rebellion and error. Who does not...