Erev Rosh ha-Shana I D'rasha (Download PDF)
You may know that I just adopted a son. Nathaniel and I have been home for a little bit less than three weeks. If I look tired, it is all smoke and mirrors, I’m exhausted. 
-- Rabbi Toby Manewith


Rosh ha-Shana 1 D'rasha (Download PDF)
Every year, a month or two before Rosh Hashanah, for as long as I have been invited to
address the congregation, longer perhaps than some of you have been alive, I struggle to find something new to add to the zillions of words that have been spoken on this sacred day for thousands of years. There are books filled with yellow post-its and stacks of newspaper clippings and a thousand bookmarks on the computer all competing for space in my brain and leading to the most metaphors screeching for attention! 
-- Al Munzer

Rosh ha-Shana 2 D'rasha (Download PDF)
Today’s Torah portion closes the book on Exodus. Perhaps you have noticed that this book does not focus on the exodus itself. Instead it focuses of the revelation of God’s law and the building of the Tabernacle. Yet the name of the book is significant because it describes and represents what some consider the most important transition in the life of our people – the transition from slavery to freedom.  -- Eva Freund


Shabbat Shuva D'rasha (Download PDF)
Tonight is Shabbat Shuva – the Shabbat of repentance and of turning/re-turning. As I was reading on the subject wondering what I might talk about, I came across an unexpected example of repentance and atonement that has moved me quite a bit, and I want to share it with you. -- Elke Martin
Kol Nidre D'rasha (Download PDF)
I’m not one of those people that remembers movie lines. I mean, I can quote a few iconic lines from Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but when friends have conversations that rely on intimate knowledge of The Big Chill or The Big Lebowski, I’m at a loss. -- Rabbi Toby Manewith
Yom Kippur D'rasha (Download PDF)
There are some events - some days - that change the universe so deeply that no one old enough to remember that day will ever forget it. Such was the day, referenced in this morning’s Torah portion, when we stood at Sinai and entered into a covenant with God. All of us here today were not only part of the covenant made on that day, but are part of the ongoing covenant that exists now, and will continue to exist for those that follow us as members of K’lal Israel.  -- Sarajane Garten