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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, […]