“Yet though we bolt and bar our house from You, to every door, O Death, You have a key.” We all knew that Jimmy was ailing, but he had come back from every crisis. His resilience and his will to live were formidable, as formidable as Jimmy was himself. Rabbi Jacob Rudin wrote, “To ask […]
Rabbi Norman Patz Temple Sholom of West Essex Yom Kippur Morning, October 9, 2019 – 10 Tishri, 5780 To my Temple Beth Shalom family: Naomi and I send you warm greetings on the New Year 5780 and wish you a good year. We look forward to spending the months from Hanukkah to Purim with […]
Rabbi Patz and Naomi visited our young members at URJ Crane Lake Camp on Sunday, July 21st. In the photograph are Angie Ortega, Coral Beauchamp, Yanelis Beauchamp and Shlomo Garcia along with Rabbi Patz, Naomi Patz and their camper-granddaughters Sadie and Dahlia Reynolds.
We have a very exciting announcement to make: After more than a year of planning, our solar-powered electricity generation and storage system is now live! The installation of this system, which will not only help us reduce our electricity costs, but will also be of invaluable use after the next grid-collapsing storm, was only possible […]
Dir. Irene Orleansky 2016 Israel, Ethiopia Join us on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 PM for an evening of film and pizza! We will be screening Bal Ej: The Hidden Jews of Ethiopia. Following this screening we will have a Q&A with the filmmaker in Israel via Skype. Bal Ej: The Hidden Jews of Ethiopia Trailer About the […]
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 […]