Shmoozy News

Dear Friends, This one goes out to all my people struggling with anxiety! Stress, worry, fear, etc. In this week’s parsha, Jacob is deep in it. It’s been years since he’s taken his brother Esau’s birthright and blessing, and now he has two wives, two...

Dear Friends, I’m really into this verse from Parshat Noach right now. It comes up after the flood, after Noah and his family get off the ark, but before they start the rebuilding process. They make an offering to God, and that’s when we get the first...

Dear Friends, This Shabbat Sukkot, preparing for Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah and the weather getting cooler, I’d like to share three short poems: Under the Broken Sky: A Prayer for Sukkot by SuzieB, written as a responsive reading As the stars twinkle...

Dear Friends, Yom Kippur is barely behind us, and Sukkot is about to begin. I’m finding it really interesting to think about the relationship between the two of them. I mean, if Yom Kippur is the most important Jewish holiday (it’s certainly up there),...

Dear Friends, This Shabbat is a special one; the Shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur – Shabbat Shuva. The Shabbat of Return. The week’s haftarah, fittingly, opens with the words, “Return, Israel, to Adonai your God, for you have stumbled in your...