Presione aquí para español You are cordially invited to join us for the first night of Passover! Come celebrate with us and enjoy a family-style Seder led by Cantor Dorothy Goldberg at Temple Beth Shalom. Friday, April 19, 2019 Doors will open at 6:15, the Seder will begin at 6:30 P.M. TBS Members and Associate […]
¡Buenos días! Una vez más, tengo el privilegio de representar a la comunidad judía de Puerto Rico en la inauguración de la Semana Nacional de la Policía. Gracias al sargento Axel Valencia por tramitar mi invitación. Desde los tiempos bíblicos, los judíos siempre hemos orado por el bienestar y la seguridad de los lugares donde […]
In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Puerto Rico has an exclusive opportunity to the memorable story of Eva Schloss, stepsister and childhood friend of Anne Frank. Eva Schloss will be traveling from London to share her story of triumph and survival with the Puerto Rio community. Like her stepsister, Eva went into hiding in Holland until she, […]
We sometimes get so used to the things around us that we stop seeing them. That is, we don’t consciously remember what the things mean or what they stand for. Consider the two framed documents on the sides of the bimah here. On my right is the document from the Memorial Scrolls Trust in London […]
Rabbi Norman Patz Temple Sholom of West Essex Shabbat Toledot November 9-10, 2018 / 2 Kislev, 5779 “Don’t send your boys to school in the morning.” That’s what a neighbor told the mother of John and Ernie Oettinger on November 9th 1938. The neighbor was a fireman who knew the SS plans for attacking Jews […]
On Thursday, September 20th, Rabbi Patz was one of the clergy invited to speak at the Ecumenical ceremony convened by the Puerto Rican Secretary of State to memorialize the one year anniversary of Hurricane Maria. The event included addresses by Governor Ricardo Rossello and Jeniffer Gonzáles -Colón, PR’s Resident Commissioner in Washington, D.C. The Secretary […]
El gran abogado romano y figura política Cicerón describió la memoria como “el tesoro y guardián de todas las cosas” (siglo I aC) Ningún otro animal lleva en su cerebro tantos recuerdos de tal complejidad. Ninguna otra criatura viva en la tierra puede revisar regularmente esos recuerdos para la felicidad, para la seguridad y para […]