Jennifer Stempel, a Los Angeles-based writer, changed her approach to life after hearing a High Holy Days sermon at Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills. Stempel was shul-hopping when the wife of a Temple ...

If my calculations are correct, I have listened to somewhere between 70 and 80 High Holy Days sermons. The total sounds high, but when you consider that typically four different High Holy Days sermons ...

Comedy writer Janet Leahy was working on an episode of “The Simpsons” a couple of years ago, when her rabbi asked her for three jokes to punch up his Rosh Hashanah sermon. With this year’s High Holy ...

(RNS) — On Thursday, the rabbi asked his congregants what they wanted to hear on the High Holy Days. This is not a posthumous mystery book by Harry Kemelman, as in the classic Rabbi Small series: ...

Evaluate such events prudently, through humble discernment and in accordance with the teachings of the Church,’ the Holy ...

How the Trinity is reshaping my preaching. Like many young pastors, I spent my early years of ministry torturing audiences through endless experiments with my preaching. I had been to seminary, ...

For rabbis, the Jewish High Holidays are a ratings period. Synagogues are packed with people — many of whom attend only a few times a year — expecting to be impressed and even entertained by the ...

“Why should our praise and glorification, or even the celebration of this feast day, mean anything to the saints? What do they care about earthly honors when their heavenly Father honors them by ...

Your Eminences and Graces! Reverend rector, Father Leonid! Dear fathers, brothers, and sisters! I would like to sincerely congratulate all of you on the great feast of the Exaltation of the Precious, ...