Rabbi Rick Rheins' Weekly Messages:

The Promise and Challenge of Tomorrow  - Shabbat Vayechi 5781 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Approaching Rapprochement  - Shabbat Vayigash 5781 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
After the Dream  - Shabbat Mikeitz 5781 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Not By Might  - Shabbat Chanukah Vayeishev 5781 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
A Kiss is Still a Kiss  - Shabbat Vayishlach 5781 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Upon this Rock  - Shabbat Vayeitzei 5781 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Our Secret of Immortality  - Shabbat Tol’dot 5781 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Facing the Future Without Fear …. Together  - Shabbat Chayei Sarah 5781 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Making Excuses . . .for Others  - Shabbat Vayeira 5781 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Going Forward By Discovering the Past  - Shabbat Lekh Lekha 5781 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Looking for Rainbows  - October 23, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
A Little Less Than Devine - October 16, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
To See But Not to Touch - October 9, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Don't Worry, Be Happy? - October 2, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Listening, Remembering and Doing In Memory of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg zl - September 25, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Ushering in the New Year with Peace:Israel, UAE and Bahrain Sign a Historic Treaty - September 18, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Beyond Commandments - July 31, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
In Our Own Words - July 24, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Our Story is Not Over - July 17, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
The Three Weeks - July 10, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Making Sacred that which was Unholy - July 3, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Unworthy Monuments - June 26, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
A Brave Step Forward - June 19, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
The Sacred Voices of the Disenfranchised - June 12, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Seeing God in the Faces of Others - June 5, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Your People Will Be My People - May 29, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Treasures Found In the Wilderness - May 22, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Be Strong and Of Good Courage - May 15, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Proclaiming the Day - May 8, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
The People of the Hour - May 1, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
The Wisdom of Torah: What to do after the Quarantine - April 24, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
The Bravest and Most Vulnerable - April 17, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Counting the Days - April 10, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Seeing the Symbols of Passover in a New Light - April 3, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Vayikra Sermon: The Longing To Be Near - March 27, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
When Bigger Is Not Better - March 27, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Guidance through the Wilderness - March 20, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Purification Beyond Purell - March 13, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Can't Touch This - March 6, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
V'asita --- And You Shall Make - February 28, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Laws and Love to Live By - February 21, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
"Honor your father and your mother..." In memory of Dick Eber z"l and Ardie Wandel z"l - February 14, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
First One In - February 7, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
The Reform Movement in Action - January 31, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
The Sacred Call of a New Generation - January 24, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
But What If They Don't Believe Me? - January 17, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Seeking, Receiving, and Bestowing Blessings - January 10, 2020 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
“God is in this place and I did not know it!” Lessons Learned! - December 6, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Family Feast... or Food Fight? - November 29, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
From Resident Alien to Neighbor - November 22, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
You have the Right not to remain Silent! - November 15, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Go forth for blessings…but watch your back: Kristallnacht, Pittsburgh, Pueblo… - November 8, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
The Tower of Babel: Diversity is Better Than Conformity - November 1, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
It's God's Creation but it is our World - October 25, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Sukkot & Shabbat: A Time for Joyous Thanksgiving - October 18, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
The Final Song of Moses - October 11, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Can We Really Be Forgiven? The Uncounted Mitzvot: Be Strong and Resolute - October 4, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
The Chosen People Blessed By the Chosen People - September 27, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
What Now? - September 20, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Walking the Walk before Talking the Talk - September 13, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Dreams Fulfilled, Dreams Denied: Life’s Hard Knocks - Shabbat Sermon - September 6, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
The Necessity of Disagreement - September 6, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
There's Got to Be a Better Way - August 30, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Can't Get No Satisfaction? - August 23, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
A Good Silence and a Bad Silence - August 16, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
The Hardest Question: Eikha, How can this still be happening? - August 9, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Sinat Chinam: The Hatred That Divides and Destroys Societies Looms Once Again - August 2, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Generosity and Grace after Disappointment - July 26, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Curses to Blessings - July 19, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Not Playing the Victim - July 12, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
A Kindly Word for a Political Opponent? - July 5, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
The Great Debate... in this Week's Parashah - June 28, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Is It Okay to Invite Someone to Become Jewish? - June 21, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
The Power to Bless - June 14, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
The Most Precious Gifts Are Free - June 7, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
And None Shall Make You Afraid - May 31, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
The Torah's Bell of Liberty and Ours - May 24, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Words of Torah: Shabbat Emor Proclaim the day Holy! - May 17, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
The First Step for a Better World - May 10, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Acharei Mot, After the Death - May 3, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Why This Night? Why Us - April 19, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Shabbat HaGadol: What Makes It Great - April 11, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Finding A Place at the Table - April 5, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
And Aaron Was Silent - March 28, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Shabbat Zakhor: Remembering Not to Forget - March 15, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
There's Nothing Progressive About Anti-Semitism - March 8, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Come Together - March 1, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Even a Stinker Can Be Holy - February 22, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Keeping the Light Shining Against the Onslaught of Anti-Semitism - February 15, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
There's a Place For Us - February 8, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Three Times a Charm? - February 1, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Lo Dayeinu: When Heaven's Angels Are Not Enough - January 5, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Kvetching and Complaining vs Criticizing and Protesting - January 18, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
No One Should Be Left Behind - January 11, 2019 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
A Broken Spirit's Deafening Silence - January 4, 2019 - Rabi Rick Rheins
The Old-New Anti-Semitism: “A New King Arose” - December 27, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
What Are We To Do When a Friend’s Loved One Dies? A Lesson of Torah from ‘Ask Amy’ - December 21, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Our Blessedly Blended Israelite Family - December 12, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
I'm Dreaming of a Bright Shabbos - December 7, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Searching for Each Other - November 30, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
A Thanksgiving for Earth Angels - November 23, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Better Than Picture Perfect - November 16, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
We'll Get By With a Little Help From Our Friends - November 8, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
From Mourning to Healing Through Love - November 1, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Questioning Authority - October 26, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Vive La Difference and Bless You Too - October 19, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Noach After the Flood - October 12, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Am I My Brother's Keeper? - October 5, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Frightening Issues.  Compelling Testimony.  Lingering Issues. - September 28, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
But Will They Listen? - September 21, 2018
 Brave Words for Uncertain Times - September 14, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
A Standing Leap to the New Year - September 7, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
The Curse of Sexual Violence - August 31, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Turning an Enemy into a Friend - August 23, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Counting, Hearing, Reflecting & Renewing - August 16, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
A Contradiction in the Torah? - August 9, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Sure, We Don’t Live By Bread Alone...But All Things Being Equal, A Great Bagel is Heavenly - August 2, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Grace Beyond Love - July 26, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Delaying Mourning: Tishah B’Av and the Shabbat - July 20, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
A World Spinning Out of Control? Reflections on Rosh Chodesh Av and the Conclusion of the Book of Numbers - July 13, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
A Cry by the Most Vulnerable - June 19, 2018 -  Rabbi Rick Rheins 
Words of Torah- Shabbat May 11, 2018 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Words of Torah EMOR 5778 - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Kiddushim Draft Day Prophets - Rabbi Rick Rheins
A Week of Pausing, Memorializing---and then Celebrating- Rabbi Rick Rheins

High Holy Days 2019/5780

Erev Rosh HaShanah - Rabbi Jordy Callman
Rosh HaShanah Day - "Taking Back Control of Our Lives" - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Kol Nidre - Rabbi Jordy Callman
Yom Kippur Morning - "Love Your enemies?" - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Yom Kippur Yizkor - "Preparing for the Inevitable" - Rabbi Rick Rheins

Rabbi Raymond Zwerin's Emeritus Divrei Torah

Whose Torah Is It, Anyway? - Rabbi Raymond Zwerin, August 30, 2019

Rabbi Susan Rheins' Sermons & D'var Torah

This Blessing is For You - Shabbat Lekh L'kha - Rabbi Susan Rheins, October 19, 2018/11 Cheshvan 5779
VAYIKRa and Women of the Wall's 30th Anniversary Celebration - Rabbi Susan Rheins, March 15, 2019/9 Adar II 5779
Shavuot 5779 - Yizkor Sermon - Rabbi Susan Rheins, June 9, 2019/ 6 Sivan 5779
Shabbat Shelach L'kha - It'll Be Good For You! - Rabbi Susan Rheins, June 28, 2019 / 26 Sivan 5779

Rabbi Rick Rheins' Kesher Articles:

September-Ocober 2019 - Meaning Beyond Absurdity
July-August 2019 - Oh, the things they say. Let's hope they'll stop!
May-June 2019 - Eshet Chayil, A Woman of Valor: Rabbi Susan Miller Rheins
March-April 2019 - They Hate Us Cuz They Ain't Us
January-February 2019 - Looking Through a Glass Onion

Recent Postings 2018/5778:

Sh'lach L'kha 5778 - Rabbi Susan Rheins
Yom HaShoah 5778 - Rabbi Susan Rheins
Nights of Watching - Rabbi Susan Rheins

High Holy Days 2018/5779

Survival Tool for Reform Judaism - Rabbi Rick Rheins
For the Sin of Standing Idly While Our Neighbors Cry - Rabbi Rick Rheins
At the Entrance of Hope - Rabbi Susan Rheins
When Our Hearts Are Broken - Rabbi Susan Rheins
A Mirror for the Soul - Rabbi Susan Rheins
The Cup of Blessing - Rabbi Susan Rheins
Faithfully Perplexed - Rabbi Rick Rheins
Shemini Atzeret-Simchat Torah - Cantor Sheila Nesis

High Holy Days 2017/5778

This Is The Blessing - Rabbi Susan Rheins
What Is Your Story - Rabbi Susan Rheins
Wonder Woman - Rabbi Susan Rheins
Who's Sorry Now - Rabbi Susan Rheins
From Many, One - Rabbi Richard Rheins
Meah vEsrimTo 120 - Rabbi Richard Rheins
Justice vs Compassion - Rabbi Richard Rheins
We've Got Game! - Rabbi Richard Rheins

Rabbi Zwerin's 80th Birthday
 

At 80 - Rabbi Raymond Zwerin
Zwerin Book List 2016

High Holy Days 2016/5777
 

Kol Nidrei - A Voice Cries Out in the Wilderness - Rabbi Richard Rheins
Yom Kippur Morning - True Grit - Rabbi Richard Rheins
Yom Kippur Morning Alternative Service - I Stand This Day - Rabbi Susan Rheins
Yizkor - We All Count in this Minyan - Cantor Sheila Nesis

"AS IF I WEREN'T THERE" - Sung by Cantor Nesis, Yizkor 5777/2016:    

Erev Rosh HaShanah - The Art of Being a Jewish Mother - Rabbi Susan Rheins
Rosh HaShanah Morning - Imperfect Masterpieces - Rabbi Richard Rheins
Rosh HaShanah Morning, Alternative Service - Why Are You Here? - Rabbi Susan Rheins

Lighting the Lamps of Jewish Continuity - Rabbi Susan Rheins (Erev Shabbat Service, June 24)
Shavuot 5776/2016 Yizkor Sermon - Rabbi Susan Miller Rheins
Yom HaShoah 5776 - Rabbi Susan Miller Rheins
AIPAC Policy Conference Sermon - Rabbi Richard Rheins (Erev Shabbat Service March 25, 2016)

Sermons – High Holy Days 2015/5776
 

Rosh HaShanah
Erev Rosh HaShanah 5776 – Rabbi Susan Miller Rheins
After the Deal Time to Heal – Rabbi Richard S. Rheins
Alternative Service – Rabbi Susan Miller Rheins

Kol Nidre 
Destigmatizing Mental Illness – Rabbi Richard S. Rheins
Alternative Service – Rabbi Susan Miller Rheins

Yom Kippur
Jewish Choices – Rabbi Richard S. Rheins
Yizkor – Rabbi Susan Miller Rheins