With the exception of Shabbat, there are no Jewish holidays in the month of Cheshvan, which begins at sundown on Friday, November 1. How...

The October issue of Shalom on the Emerald Coast is out!!

The holiday season is here.  Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, and Simchat Torah.  Four holidays to celebrate.  What a blessing it is to...

Rabbi's Letter for September 2024

The holiday season brought me a lot of activity. First there was the delivery of care packages we get from the United Way. Laurie has...

October brought us the High Holidays. Our first blessing was Rabbi Yoni coming back to hold services for us here at Temple Beth Shalom in...

We’ve been busy and blessed. We continue our Friday-night, lay-leader services with outstanding attendance from our members. The best...

We have an active summer with lay leader services and the revitalization of services focusing on strengthening our community. We started...

The month of July at Temple Beth Shalom in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, started with the return of our monthly Pot-Luck Shabbat. It was...

Temple Beth Shalom welcomed Summer with Shavuot, cheesecake, and the annual members meeting. The meeting started with food, which is no...

May brought us plenty of rain here in the Florida Panhandle, but it didn’t dampen our spirits. For Fort Walton Beach Temple Beth Shalom's...

I wanted to call this blog entry “April Fools,” but my wife told me I shouldn’t brag about my accomplishments. However, I did insist on...

Over the years, I have been asked numerous times, “Rabbi what can we actually eat on Passover?” The Torah seems specific, “Seven days...

Spring is here and we at Temple Beth Shalom in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, saw the change of the seasons, the change to Daylight Savings...

This month we once again celebrate the days of Purim. When I was a young boy growing up in the Reform Movement, it seemed as if the...