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From Rabbi Cohen: Our Annual Dustup
It begins with the month of Elul, a time we set aside to begin preparing for the High Holy Days. We are invited to hear the blast of the shofar every day leading to Rosh Hashanah, allowing its sound the opportunity to begin centering ourselves on what’s to come. On Rosh Hashanah we gather with […]
Catskills Come to Como Comedy Night
Hope you’ve had a great start to 5781. Now it’s time to start lubricating your funny bone to get ready to entertain or be entertained at CBS’ First Catskills Come to Como Comedy Night, coming to your Zoom screen in just one month. If you aren’t planning on being in the lineup you can help us […]
From Rabbi Cohen: The Zen of sukkah
(I wrote this column some time ago, as will be clear from the opening paragraph. But its message about Sukkot still fits. Well, kind of, in that our Covid-colored world limits what we can do in a sukkah this year. Nonetheless, the theology remains apt.) I was caught in a traffic jam today in the […]
From Rabbi Cohen: Kapparah/Atonement
There are a couple of ways to talk about atonement. The first, one of my favorites, is to point out that the English word is a conflation of at-one-ment, and tells us that the goal of atoning is to arrive at a sense of inner wholeness, of peace. In the Jewish way, you arrive at that […]
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