by Cantor Matt Axelrod January 7, 2021 3 Putting a Good Face on Prayer I have seen more of myself in the last year than I could have ever imagined. One of the unintendedContinue Reading
by Cantor Matt Axelrod October 29, 2020 1 The Results Are In One well-known and creative parenting technique is to give older kids or teens a safe path out of participating inContinue Reading
by Cantor Matt Axelrod September 15, 2020 1 Someone Saw All This Coming How many times over the last six or so months have we uttered the question: “Who could have foreseen this?”Continue Reading
by Cantor Matt Axelrod July 28, 2020 2 Socially Distanced but Spiritually Close Over the last whatever number of months (I can’t even remember what day it is), we have been moving fartherContinue Reading
by Cantor Matt Axelrod July 14, 2020 2 Hineni for our Virtual Services Streaming services? Check. Virtual Choirs? Working on it. But has anyone given any thought to the fact that the traditionalContinue Reading
by Cantor Matt Axelrod June 29, 2020 4 Turning Your Home into a Sacred Space וְעָשׂוּ לִי מִקְדָּשׁ וְשָׁכַנְתִּי בְּתוֹכָם They will make me a sanctuary and I will dwell among them. For months now,Continue Reading
by Cantor Matt Axelrod June 17, 2020 2 Balancing Home and Prayer Over the last few months, we’ve all experienced a number of sweeping changes to our lives–some financial, some logisitical, someContinue Reading
by Cantor Matt Axelrod April 27, 2020 5 Putting the Genie Back About a decade ago (no, wait, it was about six or seven weeks) when all this started, I remember readingContinue Reading
by Cantor Matt Axelrod March 31, 2020 Number of comments0 Virtually Everything has Changed It’s only been a couple of weeks, but synagogue life has been utterly and fundamentally changed. By shifting away fromContinue Reading
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