Thank you for all of the refua shelema/get well wishes over the last 2 weeks. Ruti and I are now over our bout with Covid and, although Ruti is on crutches from a broken foot, we’re going to be leading services this Friday night, July 14 and we can’t wait to see you!
At University Synagogue, we vary our Shabbat programming, so it’s not “the same old” each week. We are always trying to reflect the diversity of interests of our members and to do outreach to the general community.
We are living at a most exciting time to be Jewish. It’s so important that we appreciate how accepting liberal Judaism has become and not only overly focus on the plague of anti-Semitism that we must, unfortunately, combat at the same time. Simchas (joys) and tzuris (troubles) can co-exist, and the former must be...Read more...
Rabbi Arnold Rachlis has been the spiritual leader of University Synagogue since 1991, guiding us since 1987 from a small havurah looking for a more modern approach to Judaism to a 600+ families center for dynamic and innovative Judaism. He leads with a focus on a humanistic philosophy that sees God not as a supreme being, but as inspiration, creativity, conscience, consciousness and motivating us toward human growth and social justice. Rabbi Rachlis has created a joyous environment which affirms individuality and is inclusive – men and women, gay and straight, Jewishly learned and not, Jewish and not Jewish – welcoming all to learn, explore and connect at University Synagogue.
