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Sermons
On this page you will find audio files of sermons.
Miscellaneous Sermons
- Rabbi Barr’s Christmas Eve Sermon
- Rabbi Laura Baum speaks on Happy Make Your Own Meaning Day - a Thanksgiving/Hanukkah sermon. Note: This sermon was delivered by Rabbi Baum when she was a fifth year student at Hebrew Union College.
- Sermons For the High Holidays - Audio Files
- “I think I Can” by Rabbi Robert Barr
- “Saying What We Mean and Meaning What We Say: The Power of Words” by Rabbi Laura Baum
- Rabbi Laura Baum speaks on Changing Ideas about Trust and Trustworthiness
- Rabbi Robert Barr speaks on Judaism: The Past is Not Our Future
- Rabbi Laura Baum speaks on social justice and the tensions we feel.
- Rabbi Robert Barr speaks on personal struggle…facing the unexpected.
- Rabbi Robert Barr speaks on the legacies we create.
- Rabbi Laura Baum speaks on a third dimension to the Jewish experience. It’s not your grandparents’ Judaism.
- Rabbi Robert Barr speaks on “The Time to Act is Now!” Change, creativity, and forward-thinking are essential in Judaism. We stand at a pivotal moment in Jewish history. How will we respond?
- Rabbi Barr speaks on “Sacred Texts-Not Really” and discusses a liberal Jewish approach to the Bible. He argues we must become the voices of reason.
- Rabbi Baum discusses the legend from the Torah that Moses never reached the Promised Land. She encourages us to stop seeking an elusive Promised Land and instead encourages us to focus on our journeys.
- Rabbi Robert Barr discusses what it means to stand on sacred ground as he discusses his recent visits to Auschwitz and to the American Military Cemetery in Normandy.
- Rabbi Robert Barr speaks on “Stepping Outside of Ourselves.” Yom Kippur calls us to recalibrate ourselves so that we see what is happening around us and the ways we affect and touch the lives of others.
- Rabbi Laura Baum speaks on the rational and non-rational components of religion. As we enter the New Year, may we allow ourselves to be enriched by our human potential and a sense of wonder– as our minds flourish…and our hearts soar.
- Rabbi Robert Barr speaks on finding sanctuary during troubling times.
- Rabbi Ana Bonnheim discusses Israel and its physical environment.
- Rabbi Robert Barr encourages us to tease apart our realities and our self-perceptions. He calls upon us to pierce the myths that we live by – about ourselves as individuals, as Jews, as Baby Boomers, and as Americans.
- Listen to Rabbi Mark Rothschild, PhD, as he provides three sequential answers to the question, “What, if anything, does Progressive Judaism say about changing ourselves and changing our world?”
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- — Passover page is up!
- — Baum's Blog on Chelsea Clinton and a Possible Jewish Wedding
- — Join us for Streaming Shabbat 6 PM ET Friday
- — Barr's Banter on International Women's Day