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Every Tomorrow Has A Yesterday Built Into It
By Rabbi Robert L. Kravitz – Memories. Thoughts of the past. Ideas from former actions. Drifting into the ether of yesterdays, composed of memories, recollections. We build on the past. We formulate...
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In A World Of Do It Yourself
By Rabbi Robert L. Kravitz – What a world! On TV, we watch Do-it-Yourself programs. In the large “box stores” we are shown how to do it ourselves. In congregations and religious gatherings we are told...
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I’m Buzzed, But I’m Happy
By Rabbi Robert L. Kravitz – My head is a-buzz. Not with bees. Not with the incessant hum of machinery. Not with the background noise of a city. My head is buzzing because I’m exhausted. It’s one thing...
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Integrity And Honesty – Not So Real Today
By Rabbi Robert L. Kravitz – I shake your hand and the deal is final, done, set, completed. My handshake, and the required signature at the bottom of the page, is all that is needed to attest to the...
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La La Land Is Not Just A Movie
By Rabbi Robert L. Kravitz – So here we are, weeks into the new presidential world and more people are praying than ever before. Some pray for the new president, his family and administration, others...
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Life, Liberty And The Pursuit of Happiness…Or Not!
By Rabbi Robert L. Kravitz – Ever since we opened an American history textbook in school, we have been taught that American citizens are correct in expecting the privileges of living under our...
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Summertime…And The Forgettin’ Is Easy
By Rabbi Robert L. Kravitz – Summertime! This is the cry of school kids from Kindergarten through college. The expectation that the summer vacation frees them from studying, from learning, from...
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LIFE: L’Chaim, then BAM!
By Rabbi Robert L. Kravitz, D.D. – Sad. Happy. Quietly listening to pain. Enjoying family, celebrating at the holidays. Many are the emotions we all have to deal with, were we to listen to lyrics of...
View ArticleTime To Dream, Again
By Rabbi Robert L. Kravitz, D.D. – As I write this column, just a few weeks to go and then the ball falls in NYC, and we all are challenged to remember to write 2018 on our checks and letters. Amazing...
View ArticleLittle Creatures Of God
By Rabbi Robert L. Kravitz, D.D. – Out of nowhere they attach themselves to our heartstrings. They are cute, most say adorable, and we welcome them into our lives with smiles and a giddy feeling of...
View ArticleThoughts And Prayers – Fooey!
By Rabbi Robert L. Kravitz, D.D. – How often do we have to offer our “thoughts and prayers” (T&P) to those who are recipients of the traumas of the world? Doesn’t it become meaningless to...
View ArticleThe Beauty In A Smile
By Rabbi Robert L. Kravitz, D.D. – She sat there. He was sitting across, mindlessly watching the world go by. He glanced at her, a twinkle in her eye caught his. She smiled. He smiled…and a new...
View ArticleHow Much Is Too Much?
By Rabbi Robert L. Kravitz, D.D. – “Our world must strike a balance, so we can maintain a proper existence. Think of the good and evil all around us and pray for moderation.” Some rain is good. Some...
View ArticleNew Year’s: 2019 and 5779
By Rabbi Robert L. Kravitz, D.D. – For members of my community it is already the NEWest Year, from our calendar change in the Fall when ‘traditional counting’ suggests this to be 5779 years since...
View ArticleOnce Upon a Time There was a Bunny …
By Rabbi Robert L. Kravitz, D.D. — A fluffy little bunny was scampering across a green field. Alone. With nothing special in mind to do this day. Enjoying the green of the field and the comfort of the...
View ArticleHappiness… and Holocaust
By Rabbi Robert L. Kravitz, D.D. — Joy-filled times of redemption and rebirth. Many of us just celebrated the holy days of Pesach (Passover) and Easter. Family time. Good food. Fancy new spring...
View ArticleA Palm Tree, a Ficus and Some Chimes
By Rabbi Robert L. Kravitz, D.D. — It was one of those unusual Sunday afternoons when not much was going on. The temperature was below average, and a cool breeze woke the hanging chimes prompting them...
View ArticleWords Hurt and Heal
By Rabbi Robert L. Kravitz, D.D. — A few years ago, I delivered a sermon expressing the need for civility, integrity and honesty in government. It seemed like a normal appeal to do right, speak...
View ArticleA Most Important Season
By Rabbi Robert L. Kravitz, D.D. — So here we are again. The season of Jewish High Holy Days and Festivals has concluded, with hope and joy. November brings us closer to another set of holidays,...
View Article2020 for Good — or Not?
By Rabbi Robert L. Kravitz, D.D. — As you read this column, the newest year 2020 has already arrived. It’s the year we will refer to in the phrase “hindsight is 2020.” So, if this newest year does...
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