rosh hashana

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• "Rosh Hashana Drasha" (video); Rabba Sara Hurwitz, 2020/5781

• "Power Hour of Torah: The High Holiday Edition" (video), 2020/5781

• Machzor Companion, 2020/5781

• "Look at this Rosh Hashanah as a bespoke experience"; Rabba Dina Brawer ('18), 2020/5781

• "The Shining Face of the Kohen Gadol and Personal Forgiveness"; Rabbi Marianne Novak ('19), 2020/5781

• "Three Mothers of Rosh Hashanah"; Rabbi Alana Suskin (Kollel '20), 2019/5780

• "The Rosh Hashanah Musaf"; Rabbanit Gloria Nusbacher ('20), 2019/5780

• "Signed, Sealed, Delivered"; Dr. Liz Shayne, 2019/5780

• "Rosh Hashanah: Time of Change"; Nomi Kaltmann, 2019/5780

• "If Only..."; Rabba Rachel Kohl Finegold ('13), 2019/5780

• "Teshuva: A Counter Cultural Endeavor"; Rabba Claudia Marbach ('18), 2019/5780

• "Beyond the Point of No Return: On Teshuvah and Finding a Way Out"; Myriam Ackermann-Somer, 2019/5780

• "Please Open My Lips"; Rabbi Eryn London ('17), 2016/5777

• "Pregnancy and the New Year"; Maharat Rori Picker Neiss ('14), 2014/5775

• "Prescribing Life"; Rabba Dr. Carmella Abraham ('17), 2013/5774

• "Rosh Hashana Address"; Rabba Rachel Kohl Finegold ('13), 2013/5774

• "Change with Sacrifice"; Rabba Sara Hurwitz, 2013/5774

• "Starting the New Year Awake"; Rabba Rachel Kohl Finegold ('13), 2013/5774

• Address to Bais Abraham Congregation;  Maharat Rori Picker Neiss ('14), 2013/5774

• "The Shofar Reminds Us to Listen for Unheard Cries"; Maharat Rori Picker Neiss ('14), 2013/5774

• "Elul Reflections"; Rabbanit Alissa Thomas-Newborn ('16), 2013/5774

• "Holding On: The High Holiday Lesson of the Birmingham Bell"; Rabbi Avi Weiss, 2013/5774

• "Thwarting the Satan for Shalom Bayit"; Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, 2012/5773

yom kippur

• Machzor Companion, 2020/5781

• "Of Angels & Death: Women Wearing Kittels"; Rabba Sara Hurwitz, 2019/5780

• "How to Have it All By Not Having it All: (Mis)Representation on Yom Kippur"; Maharat Ruth Friedman ('13), 2019/5780

• "Fasting on Yom Kippur by Pregnant or Nursing Women: A Personal and Pastoral Perspective"; Maharat Ruth Friedman ('13), 2018/5779

• "Ahavnu, Beirachnu: Yom Kippur is a Time to Confess Our Good"; Rabbi Avi Weiss, 2016/5777

• Yizkor Address; Rabbi Eryn London ('17), 2016/5777

• "Forgiving Others and Forgiving Ourselves"; Rabba Sara Hurwitz, 2012/5773

sukkot / simkhat torah

• "Imagining the Impossible" (video) and (text); Rabba Sara Hurwitz, 2020/5781

• "Arba Minim, Arba Devarim"; Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez '18, 2017/5778

• "Shmini Atzeret"; Rabbi Eryn London ('17), 2016/5777

• "Chol Hamoed Sukkot"; Rabbi Eryn London ('17), 2016/5777

• Kallah Torah Address; Rabbanit Bracha Jaffe ('17), 2015/5776

• "Finding Security Within Insecurity"; Rabba Sara Hurwitz, 2013/5774

chanukah

• "Power Hour of Torah - The Chanukah Edition" (video), 2020/5781

• "Chanukah: the Holiness of the Doorway - the Mezuzah and the Chanukiya"; Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, 2020/5781

• "Seeking Resilience"; Rabba Sara Hurwitz, 2020/5781

• "Chanukah from Every Angle - A Webinar with Maharat Faculty" (video), 2019/5780

• "Love, Light and Latkes"; Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez ('18), 2018/5779

• "Celebrating in Darkness"; Rabbi Tali Adler ('18), 2018/5779

• "Light in Dark Times"; Rabbi Dr. Erin Leib Smokler (Kollel '18), 2016/5777

• "Chanukkah and Shimon HaTzadik"; Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, 2015/5776

• "Giving Thanks"; Rabbanit Bracha Jaffe ('17), 2014/5775

• Chashmonaim's Leadership - Rambam vs. Ramban (Sources), Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, 2012/5773

• "Miraculous Salvation"; Rabbanit Devorah Zlochower, 2012/5773

purim

• "On Precedent"; Rabba Sara Hurwitz, 2021/5781

• "Power Hour of Torah - The Purim Edition" (video), 2021/5781

• "Back To The Garden: Purim, Patriarchy, And A Path Forward"; Co-authored by Rabba Wendy Amsellem ('18), 2019/5779

• "Coercion, Choice, Power and Consent – Purim and Sexuality"; Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, 2019/5779 

• "Yes! And..."; Rabba Sara Hurwitz, 2018/5778

• "The Anxiety of Purim"; Rabbanit Gloria Nusbacher ('20), 2017/5777

• "Celebrating Unity: How the Four Mitzvot Bring Us Together"; Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez ('18), 2016/5776

• "Two Kinds of Gifts"; Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, 2016/5776

• "Celebrating the Joy of Purim with Rambam"; Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, 2014/5774

• "Hidden Miracles"; Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, 2012/5773

pesach

• "Passover: Achieving the Ideal"; Co-authored by Rabba Wendy Amsellem ('18), 2021/5781

• "Passover Readings"; Maharat & YCT, 2021/5781

• "Pre-Pesach Divrei Torah" (video); Rabba Claudia Marbach ('18), 2021/5781

• "Power Hour of Torah - The Pesach Edition" (video), 2021/5781

• "Chaos in Seder" (text) and (video); Rabba Sara Hurwitz, 2020/5780

• "Embrace New Parts of the Haggadah"; Rabbanit Leah Sarna ('18), 2020/5780

• "A 2020 Message From Our President"; Rabba Sara Hurwitz, 2020/5780

• "Why is Eliyahu Invited to Our Seder?"; Rabbi Marianne Novak ('19), 2020/5780

• "Bedikat Chametz"; Emily Goldberg Winer, 2020/5780

• "Haggadah: Narrative Therapy "; Nomi Kaltmann, 2020/5780

• "A Seder Supplement in the Age of Coronavirus"; Rabbi Avi Weiss, 2020/5780

• "Our Matzah, Our Selves"; Emily Goldberg Winer, 2019/5779

• "Dayenu and the Anatomy of Gratitude"; Rabba Sara Hurwitz, 2019/5779

• "Telling the Story: Beginning and the End"; Rabbi Jeffrey Fox,, 2019/5779

• "Get Up and Go: Avraham and Pesach"; Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, 2019/5779

• "Mortal “Pair-il”: Zugot on the Seder Night"; Dr. Liz Shayne, 2019/5779

• "The Metzora and Pesach: A Spiritual Connection"; Rabbi Marianne Novak ('19), 2019/5779

• "Pesach: A Radical Freedom"; Rabbi Alana Suskin (Kollel '20), 2018/5778

• "Shehechiyanu on Matza and Maror?"; Rabbanit Bracha Jaffe ('17), 2018/5778

• "Seder in Bnai-Brak Hills"; Rabbanit Michal Kohane ('20), 2018/5778

• "Rav Yehuda’s Puzzling Mnemonic Device", Rabba Dr. Carmella Abraham ('17), 2018/5778

• "This Matza We Eat -- What Is It For?"; Rabbanit Gloria Nusbacher ('20), 2018/5778

• "Psalm 114: The Maggid Ends, The Earth Trembles"; Rabbanit Leah Sarna ('18), 2018/5778

• "A Door Opens: Reflections on the End of the Seder"; Dr. Liz Shayne, 2018/5778

• "4 Sons, 4 Rabbis, 4 Paradigms"; Rabbi Dr. Erin Leib Smokler (Kollel '18), 2017/5777

• "Pesach: A Love Story"; Rabbanit Michal Kohane ('20), 2017/5777

• "The Symbolism of Chametz"; Rabbanit Gloria Nusbacher ('20), 2017/5777

• "Counting Towards Sinai"; Rabba Claudia Marbach ('18), 2017/5777

• "Seder Etiquette: The Ultimate Civics Lesson"; Rabbi Marianne Novak ("19), 2017/5777

• "Hallel: The Sacrificial Soundtrack"; Rabbanit Leah Sarna ('18), 2017/5777

• "The Geulah of Gerut: Pesach as Transformation";Rabbi Dr. Erin Leib Smokler (Kollel '18), 2016/5776

• "Charoseth: Harshness and Hope"; Rabba Sara Hurwitz, 2015/5775

• "What is the Parah Adumah?" Rabba Claudia Marbach ('18), 2015/5775

• "The Four Questions"; Rabba Avital Engelberg ('15), 2014/5774 [Hebrew]

• "Giving Thanks: the Challenge of Saying Hallel During Difficult Times"; Maharat Victoria Sutton ('14), 2014/5774

• "Meaning in the (dis)Order"; Rabba Dr. Carmella Abraham ('17), 2014/5774

• "Our Personal Exodus: Giving Lasting Meaning to the Seder"; Maharat Victoria Sutton ('14), 2012/5772

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pesach sheni

• "How Access and Experience Shape Us"; Rabba Dina Brawer ('18), 2017/5778, 2021/5781

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shavuot

• "Shavuot Torah"; Maharat, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, & the International Rabbinic Fellowship, 2021/5781

• "A Day of National Judgement"; Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, 2016/5776

• "A Celebration of Female Friendship in the Book of Ruth"; Rabba Wendy Amsellem (Kollel '18), 2016/5776

• "On the Utility of Ambiguity"; Rabba Dina Brawer ('18), 2016/5776

• "Finding Meaning in Empty Spaces"; Rabbanit Bracha Jaffe ('17), 2016/5776

• "Chag Hakatzir, Chag Ha-bikkurim"; Rabbi Marianne Novak ('19), 2016/5776

• "Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History"; Yael Keller, 2016/5776

• "Reflections on Mothers-in-law and Daughters- in-law in Megilat Ruth"; Dr. Esther Altmann, 2016/5776

• "One Day or Two Days?"; Rabbanit Bracha Jaffe ('17), 2014/5774

the three weeks

• "In Preparation for the Three Weeks"; Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, 2016/5776

• "Finding Nechama in the Seven Haftarot of Comfort"; Rabba Sara Hurwitz, 2014/5774

tisha b'av

• The Torah of Tears; Rabbi Tali Adler, 2019/5779

• "Az Behaloch Yirmiyahu"; Rabba Dr. Carmella Abraham ('17), 2014/5774

• "A Holiday of Distance"; Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, 2014/5774

• "The Flawed Dream"; Rabba Sara Hurwitz, 2013/5773

thanksgiving

• Parshat Vayeitzei - A Thanksgiving Journey; Rabbanit Jenna Englender ('19), 2018/5779

• "Finding Joy on Thanksgiving"; Rabba Sara Hurwitz, 2017/5778