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Sue Klau Memorial Service
We invite you to honor the life of Sue Klau on Sunday, October 27, 2024, at 10:00 AM at Temple Beth Shalom. Sue, along with her late husband, Jimmy, was a founding member and lifelong supporter of our congregation. Even after moving to the U.S., they remained deeply connected to Temple Beth Shalom. Sue passed […]
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The Timeliness of Lashon Ha’ra
Rabbi Norman Patz Temple Sholom of West Essex August 14, 2020 – 25 Av, 5780 The obituary for Adin Steinsaltz, published in the New York Times on Tuesday (Joseph Berger and Isabel Kirschner NYT 8.11.20) alerted us to the passing of our generation’s greatest Talmud scholar. Starting in 1965, when he was 27 years old, […]
Thoughts On Our Fragile Democracy
Meditation Rabbi Norman Patz Erev Shabbat Zoom service July 3, 2020 – 12 Tammuz 5780 Temple Beth Shalom of Puerto Rico On this Fourth of July, the 244th birthday of the United States of America, I want to share with you my concerns about our fragile democracy. Here is why I am worried. On the […]