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This blog post on “If Not Now, When?”: The Interactive Blog of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple is adapted from Tomorrow’s Synagogue’s Today: Creating Vibrant Centers of Jewish Life, written by Rabbi Hayim Herring, our congregation’s strategic planning consultant. Rabbi Herring is working closely with our strategic planning team on prioritizing key initiatives and strategies for achieving Continue Reading »
This post to “If Not Now, When?” the interactive blog of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, is formed from the remarks shared by Mikayla Carno-Harf, our Fairmount Temple Senior Youth Group (CLEFTY) Religious and Cultural Vice-President, during Shabbat Atid (“the future”) co-led by clergy and religious school students in our synagogue, on Friday, January 23, 2015. Continue Reading »
This post on “If Not Now, When?” the interactive blog of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple contains the Yizkor Memorial Service Sermon shared by Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk with the synagogue on Yom Kippur afternoon- Saturday, October 4, 2014. We encourage you to share it with friends by email, post it to social Continue Reading »
This blog post on “If Not Now, When?” the interactive blog of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple is excerpted from the remarks of Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk as a sermon at the Yom Kippur congregation and contemporary worship services on Friday, October 3 and Saturday, October 4, 2014 at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple. We encourage you to Continue Reading »
This post on “If Not Now, When?” the interactive blog of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, is the sermon delivered by guest Rabbi Andi Berlin at the Contemporary Rosh Hashanah Morning Service of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple on Thursday, September 25, 2014. We encourage you to share this link by email with friends, or post Continue Reading »
Shana Tova! I am Stephen Schlein, your president of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple. I want to share with you what inspired me during my first year as president. It is you, the members of Fairmount. It has happened on many levels, both as individuals and as a community. The first event I want to talk Continue Reading »
This post to “If Not Now, When?” the interactive blog of Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, was written by Rabbi Caruso to help preview and highlight some of the topics we will address and challenges we face as we each year work with our partners at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral on important faith-community observances, dedicated to celebrating Continue Reading »
In an effort to address the entire congregation at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple on Yom Kippur – Saturday, September 14, 2013, Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk shared this sermon, “Nineveh’s Oppression and Syria’s Horrific Crime,” at the Afternoon Service when all our worship communities join together. These remarks reflect on the range of issues being presented here in Continue Reading »
Rabbi Scott Fox was recently ordained at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. During his final two years of Rabbinical School, he served his student pulpit with us at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, leading and teaching at Shabbat worship, our Shabbat morning minyan, adult education and retreats and worship experiences Continue Reading »
I am inspired by our observance of Passover, as we retell the story of the exodus of our ancestors, the Hebrews, who searched together for the promised land. So as well do we need to band together for the next part of our journey as a congregation. On Sunday, May 19, at 10 a.m., Anshe Continue Reading »