Much progress has been made to the new synagogue being built in Leesburg, Virginia. Dan Tully, our congregant and skilled architect/builder took this photo while flying overhead in his plane. Check back to see more recent photos soon. The house at the top of the photo (in which I attended a Building Committee meeting last…

From World Jewish Congress site Madonna and Ritchie under fire for Purim dresses Madonna and her husband, the filmmaker Guy Ritchie, have infuriated Catholic leaders by attending a party dressed as a nun and the Pope respectively, at a time when Pope John Paul II is becoming increasingly frail. Madonna and Ritchie were attending a…

Conservative Movement in U.S. is Here to Stayby Rabbi Alan Silverstein This article first appeared in last week’s edition of New Jersey Jewish News The so-called “Jewish telegram” reads: “Start worrying. Details to follow.” Yet as Brandeis professor Jonathan Sarna stated recently to the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly, sometimes concern about possible discontinuity can be…

After a three week blogging hiatus, I’m back. Taking this week off I’m hoping to catch up on my blog. I met Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove for the first time at the Rabbinical School Kallah (retreat) during my first year of rabbinical school at The Jewish Theological Seminary in 1998 when he was a senior. Late…

JEWISH WOMEN WATCHING HOAX STIRS UP JTS CELEBRATION OF WOMEN RABBISConservative Movement Angrily Disavows Message of Equity and Non-Discrimination New York, NY (March 30, 2005) – Jewish Women Watching (JWW), the anonymous collective of feminist rabble rousers, has claimed responsibility for infiltrating last night’s Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) event celebrating twenty years of…