יום שלישי, כ״ב תמוז תשפ״וTuesday, July 7, 2026
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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg is the Senior Rabbi of the Boca Raton Synagogue (BRS), a rapidly-growing congregation of over 950 families and over 1,000 children in Boca Raton, Florida. BRS is the largest Orthodox Synagogue in the Southeast United States. Rabbi Goldberg’s warm and welcoming personality has helped attract people of diverse backgrounds and ages to feel part of the BRS community, reinforcing the BRS credo of “Valuing Diversity and Celebrating Unity.” For more information, please visit www.brsonline.org.
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Anti-Semitism will not come to an end by assimilating and retreating.
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Privilege is not a luxury, it’s a legacy; it isn’t a free pass, it is a weighty responsibility. Privilege shouldn’t breed entitlement, it should demand exceptional behavior.
Pandemic and pandemonium, what’s next? What else can we not imagine today that will become our reality tomorrow?
Shalom in our bayis is up to us
Battle coronavirus by loving your neighbor like yourself.
Elie Wiesel was once asked, “Is there a tradition of silence in Judaism?” “Yes,” he answered. ”But we don’t talk about it.”
This pandemic has forced us to redefine “essential” and “non-essential.” With the proper frame of mind, many of us can be empowered in unprecedented ways to sincerely and genuinely sing Dayeinu from the essence of our being.
Seeing God everywhere, even during this crisis.
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Many here are marking the completion of Shas, an enormous accomplishment. I wish you all a huge mazel tov and bless you that Hashem should continue to grant you ener
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We want to count on God, but can He count on us? We want Him to think of us but how often do we think of Him?
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Orange theory and pushing yourself to grow this time of the year.
Our genetics deal us a set of cards. It remains up to us how to play them.
None of us has certainty; at these times, we all confront our mortality and vulnerability.
When people in our lives are struggling or suffering, we desperately want to help but often are at a loss for what to say or what to do. In her insightful book, Option B, Sheryl Sandberg describes that people going through a difficult time often find that they are no longer surrounded by people, but […]
We confuse busyness with productivity and we often use it as a social currency to impress people with how important or significant we are.
Real faith means taking God to work with us and feeling not only His presence everywhere we go, but His partnership and investment in us and in our success.
Martin Luther King was absolutely correct: If we are silent in moments like these, our lives have literally begun to end.
Apologies filled with rationalizations, explanations and deflections are not apologies. LeBron’s apology is the perfect example of how not to say you are sorry.
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In this season of apologies, let’s be careful not only for what we apologize for, but what we need not be apologetic about. Jewish continuity will be served by pride in who we are and what we represent.
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