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As a Jew, I feel personally violated by October 7. For much of my adult life, I have tried to understand what it must have been like to be a Jew in America around 1900, while our brothers and sisters were suffering pogroms in Europe, or while the Holocaust was happening in the 1930s and […]

      Shabbat Shalom! Friends, Renana and I return to La Crosse this week, in time for Shabbat morning services. We hope you will join us now that our two-week vacation in Arizona is coming to an end. What a pretty place! Of course, our bluffs are beautiful year-round and hard to beat. So […]

Friends, I can predict what I will see in your refrigerator on Friday. Leftover turkey. As a food writer once wrote in The New York Times: “Leftover turkey is a ghoulish reminder on the morning after Thanksgiving. Roasted, dismembered and carved, remnants of big bird tweak the guilt of all who dare crack the refrigerator […]

ב”ה Message from Rabbi Brian As I was thinking about my message for this Shabbat, I was tormented by something. Have we Jews of America been living in a dream for 75 years? A state of self deception, perhaps? Seeing the huge uptick in anti-Israel and anti-Jewish rhetoric reported from all around the country, I’m […]

We are pleased to offer Introduction to Judaism. This is an engaging course for adults interested in exploring a modern approach to Jewish life. In our weekly classes, we will explore a wide range of topics covering many aspects of Jewish life including holidays, life cycle, core beliefs, prayer, the Bible and other sacred texts, […]

ב”ה Message from Rabbi Brian Friends, it’s hard to believe that I have just completed my fourth year on the Bimah here at CSOA. Where does the time go? We had an extremely successful turnout for all the holidays this year, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Simchat Torah, Shemini Atzeret even! It certainly didn’t hurt that they almost […]