Rabbis Blog & In the News

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Rabbis’ Blog/Thoughts

• I Was Arrested Protesting the Starvation Crisis in Gaza, August 2025
• Why I Support a Cease-Fire, January 2024
• Powerful Hope at a Seemingly Hopeless Time, January 2024
• Israel War, October 2023
• Reconstructing Mashiach, July 2023

Learning is a core value of Judaism.  Take a moment to delve deeper into a range of topics from the comfort of your own home, doctor’s office, airport or wherever.  This is your chance to explore and grow.  Feel free to contact Rabbi Daria or Josh with ideas for future topics.

• Writing Ourselves into the Book of Fully Living: Yom Kippur Kol Nidre Teaching, Rabbi Daria Jacobs-Velde , January 11th, 2024
• Choose Life, Rosh Hashanah Teaching 2019, Rabbi Daria Jacobs-Velde
• A Dwelling Place for Divinity: Rabbi Josh Jacobs-Velde discusses the power of Exodus 25:8, as the line evokes the possibility for spiritual transformation within the human body as we seek to discover the sanctuary contained within ourselves.
• Rabbi Josh Jacobs-Velde: Exploring the Chi/Chiut Parallel
• Finding meaning in minor fast days: Rabbi Daria
• Rabbi Josh’s Rosh Hashanah Sermon 2021
• Va’yeitzei: the Power of Two Kinds of Blessing by Rabbi Josh
• Rabbi Josh interviewed for Moment magazine about Jewish Ancestral Crafts
• Striving for Sacred Speech–Yom Kippur, Microagressions and Beyond, 2023
• Reconstructing Mashiach