WORDS THAT BREATHE

A blessing for rabbis, cantors, educators, and every Jewish professional and volunteer who carried their community through the High Holy Days.

A Rosh Hashanah Eve sermon on whether prayer still matters — told through Hannah, an elderly woman in Kyiv who never stopped praying for the world.

A nine-year-old gives away the foul ball he dreamed of catching — a Rosh Hashanah story about kindness, empathy, and what holds our broken world together.

Rabbi Paul Kipnes draws on the Talmudic tale of Honi the Circle Maker and the memory of Judy Friedman for a Rosh Hashanah lesson on planting chesed and hope.

A blessing for rabbis, cantors, educators, and every synagogue professional and volunteer who carries their community into the High Holy Days of 5787.

Two rabbis spent a rainy day at Disneyland with Congregation Or Ami's youth before Rosh Hashanah — and discovered where real community-building happens.

Rabbi Paul Kipnes remembers his teacher Sara Lee, Professor Sara S. Lee, longtime director of the Rhea Hirsch School of Education at HUC-JIR, and the High Holy Day lesson that changed how he leads: it comes around every year, so plan ahead.