Sermons: Yom Kippur

Dreaming in Harmony: On the Third Yovel of the Anshe Emet Synagogue

Yom Kippur | Rabbi Michael Siegel | September 27, 2023

Rabbi Michael Siegel | Anshe Emet Synagogue | Yom Kippur 5784 | Blum  Robert Desnos was an influential French poet in the first half of the 19th Century. Desnos was also Jewish. During World War II, he served in the French Underground. Eventually, he was captured and sent to a concentration camp. The story of what Continue Reading »

Collective Responsibility • Yom Kippur 5781

Yom Kippur | Rabbi D'ror Chankin-Gould | September 28, 2020

I was 15. I was away for the weekend at Camp Ramah in Ojai, California on a Shabbat retreat for Hebrew High School. I arrived in my bunk, unloaded my clothes, and the counselor invited the boys to gather outside for ice breakers. We sat in a circle of logs staring at our shoes, and started telling Continue Reading »

Lift Every Voice and Sing • Yom Kippur 5781

Yom Kippur | Rabbi David Russo | September 28, 2020

Just over 9 years ago, I was interviewing for a position here at Anshe Emet. I remember the first morning that I walked into Anshe Emet. As part of the interview, I attended morning minyan. I remember Debby Lewis picking me up from my hotel at 630 in the morning. And she told me that I Continue Reading »