by Cantor Matt Axelrod March 26, 2020 3 A Little Zoom Etiquette, Please Like most of you, I’ve spent more time on Zoom over the last couple of weeks than I could everContinue Reading
by Cantor Matt Axelrod March 4, 2020 2 Religion and Politics Is it appropriate for clergy to express their personal political opinions? (Anyone get the reference from the picture I chose?)Continue Reading
by Cantor Matt Axelrod February 18, 2020 3 My Personal Retirement Plan It’s time for me to channel my inner Andy Rooney. Remember him? He was the cranky old guy that wouldContinue Reading
by Cantor Matt Axelrod December 16, 2019 1 Rebalancing our Religious Portfolio Chanukah is soon upon us, and we all know what that means. The worst collection of Jewish music ever assembledContinue Reading
by Cantor Matt Axelrod November 25, 2019 1 Dude, Where’s My Pickup Truck? Thanksgiving could be my all time favorite Jewish holiday. OK, well, it feels like it should be a Jewish holiday.Continue Reading
by Cantor Matt Axelrod October 23, 2019 Number of comments0 What Happened in that Tent?! Even millenia before Facebook and the ubiquitous puppy and kitten videos, people have always been suckers for stories about animals.Continue Reading
by Cantor Matt Axelrod September 23, 2019 2 The Sound that No One Heard Perhaps the most powerful moment in the history of Yom Kippur is one single sound that no one heard. BuriedContinue Reading
by Cantor Matt Axelrod September 9, 2019 Number of comments0 A Game of Telephone I have to get this off my chest: every time I lead services I announce to everyone that there isContinue Reading
by Cantor Matt Axelrod July 22, 2019 4 Lessons in Middle Management In synagogue over the past number of weeks, we’ve been reading the numerous episodes having to do with the Israelites’Continue Reading
by Cantor Matt Axelrod April 18, 2019 1 When Life Imitates (Old Rabbi) Art Bear with me–this blog post might be a little hard to follow. It exists simultaneously in a couple of differentContinue Reading