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Friday, April 10
Israel, Diaspora, and the Moral Future of the Jewish People
Erev Shabbat Services & Sermon at 6:15 pm, Glickman-Galinson Sanctuary (YouTube)
Sermon Talkback following Services, Feuerstein Family Activity Center (diverse access)
**We encourage you to join us in person if possible**
Rabbi Creditor will presents a compelling vision of Israel and the Diaspora as a single, interdependent covenantal ecosystem, in which Jewish dignity, memory, and responsibility flow between homeland and horizon, strengthening and refining one another.
Framing Zionism as a moral awakening, he explores how Jewish sovereignty transforms vulnerability into ethical responsibility, calling for power that serves life, memory that becomes empathy, and a commitment to justice that extends beyond the Jewish people to all humanity.
His remarks will invite our community to envision a deeply rooted and expansive Judaism, where love of Israel, love of the Diaspora, and love of the world converge in the sacred work of building a more just and hopeful shared future.
Saturday, April 11
Strange Fire: Power, Silence, and the Courage to Choose
Torah Study at 9:00 am, Feuerstein Family Activity Center (diverse access)
**We encourage you to join us in person if possible**
Join Scholar-in-Residence Rabbi Menachem Creditor for a searching Torah study on Parashat Shemini, where the line between sacred passion and dangerous excess comes into sharp and unsettling focus. Drawing on original teachings and traditional commentaries, this session will engage with the moral weight of power, the theology of suffering, and the profound silence of Aaron, inviting participants into an honest encounter with what Torah does not resolve.
This Torah conversation will challenge and inspire, calling us to examine how we live, lead, and choose the fires that shape our lives and communities.
Rabbi Menachem Creditor is a globally respected American rabbi, author, musician, and dynamic educator whose work bridges ancient Jewish wisdom with contemporary life.
He serves as the Pearl and Ira Meyer Scholar-in-Residence at UJA-Federation New York and is the founder of Rabbis Against Gun Violence. With millions of views of his videos and essays, he was named by Newsweek as one of the fifty most influential rabbis in America. Rabbi Creditor has published over forty books and six albums of original music—including the widely sung Olam Chesed Yibaneh. He is also Senior Lecturer at the Academy for Jewish Religion and inspires audiences internationally with his presentations on Jewish tradition and moral leadership.
Rabbi Creditor lives in New York with his wife, singer Neshama Carlebach, and their family.