Hear Our Voice

I just returned from the Rockets game (we won!) about which I feel very grateful to have had the chance to attend. Not only was it game 5 of a series, which many believed would end tonight with the Rockets demise against the Clippers. But I had the great privilege of attending with my two boys, who love nothing more than the bigness of the NBA! And the fact that we won, bringing the Rockets record in this series to 2-3 with, I guess at least...Read more...

Have a few minutes? Let your day take a new, positive turn by listening to this uplifting sermon on the value of embracing our imperfections and letting go of judgment by Rabbi Scott Hausman-Weiss.

Here is the full text of the opening reading in the sermon:

“Spiritual Fitness”

If you can start the day without caffeine or pep pills,
If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches & pains,
If you can resist...Read more...

A friend of mine is dreading Passover. I asked why. She explained to me that she just feels hungry all week long. That everything that she wants to eat is forbidden. But then again, she reconsidered, maybe it isn’t. I asked if perhaps it was really a matter of deprivation. She demurred that it might be.

And here I am, the Rabbi, completely focused on the joy, the fun, the family atmosphere, and yes, fully aware that Passover also...Read more...

Now it is true that there are times when people purposely, pre-meditatively, meaningfully seek to do us harm. They contemplate it. They meditate on it. They dream about it and then they inflict their damage on our hearts and souls.

That said, more often than not, most of the time, people who say things that hurt us or do things that cause us harm are often acting quite unaware of the pain and damage they may be inflicting...Read more...

Now, before you fall over, allow me to explain. This whole debate in our society between the “religious zealots” on one side and the “religious atheists” on the other is a “red herring” of the utmost degree. And the irony that we learn from political science is even more undermining of both sides. That is that the farther right or left one moves, one eventually finds himself, coming full circle right or left. The more insistent we...Read more...

We’ve told you all about the food trucks, the raffle, the arcade games…but who is this mysterious “Triple Threat” band we’ve been talking about? You know they’re performing live at the event, but we wanted to give you a sneak peak into one of their rehearsals so you get exactly why we’re SO beyond pumped to be featuring them at Chill Fest. Take a look behind the scenes at Rabbi Scott’s unbelievably talented Triplet Siblings,...Read more...

An old friend of mine from college who now works in DC as a journalist was a budding investigative writer back then as well. He was only a Sophomore, but had already been threatened with university expulsion for having written an expose on the way in which university officials had purposely “hushed up” a rash of young women who had been spied on, threatened and sexually assaulted. I asked him why he was willing to go to such lengths, even...Read more...

Dear Friends,

Welcome to the CSK Blog. With the help of our wonderful new employee, Laura Nelson, Director of Communications and Programming, this blog is a fantastic opportunity for us to share ideas with each other. To the best of my ability, I will write 2-3 entries a week and I look forward to your feedback. Whether you’re reading these at home or at work, or maybe even during services ;), I hope you’ll let me know, ask...Read more...