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Rabbi Roston's Sermons, Divrei Torah

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Rosh Hashanah 5772 2nd Day Sermon - Israeli Summer of Hope (pdf)
Rosh Hashanah 5772 1st Day Sermon - The Halacha of Caring (pdf)
Shabbat haGadol 5771 Sermon -Flour & Water: It's Just a Matter of Time! (pdf)
Yom Kippur 5771 Sermon - A Life Well Lived (pdf)
Kol Nidre 5771 Faith and Doubt (pdf)
Rosh Hashanah 5771 2nd Day Sermon - Technology, Noise & Silence: Listening for God (pdf)
Rosh Hashanah 5771 1st Day Sermon - What Unites Jews and Muslims? We Are All Created in the Image of God (pdf)
Erev Rosh Hashanah 5771 Sermon - The Power of Words (pdf)
Power and Powerlessness-Two Movies: December 19, 2009 Shabbat Sermon (pdf)
Kol Nidre 5770, Sermon - We All Need Prayer - Like Never Before (pdf)
Yom Kippur 5770, Sermon - The Power of Kaddish (pdf)
Rosh HaShanah 5770, 1st Day Sermon - Our Communal Garden (pdf)
Rosh HaShanah 5770, 2nd Day Sermon - Building Our Connections with Israel (pdf)
Rosh HaShanah 5770, Healthcare and Unetaneh Tokef (pdf)
The Journey of Faith in Light of Passover and Psalm 22 - April 16, 2009 Passover Yizkor Sermon (pdf)
King, Heschel, Obama & You: January 17, 2009 Shabbat Sermon (pdf)
Madoff and The Jews: December 27, 2008 Shabbat Sermon (pdf)
Shemini Atseteret 5769, Sermon - Yizkor Harvest (pdf)
Kol Nidre 5769, Sermon - Everyone Needs a Lifeline (pdf)
Yom Kippur 5769, Sermon - Chevra Kadisha (pdf)
Rosh HaShanah 5769, 1st Day Sermon - Quality of Life Today (pdf)
Rosh HaShanah 5769, 2nd Day Sermon - Evangelical Judaism (pdf)
Sanctity and Kashrut: Agriprocessors and Hekhsher Tzedek (pdf)
Kedoshim, Sermon - 2008Wright-Obama (pdf)
Rosh HaShanah 5768, Sermon - Tzedekah (pdf)
Yom Kippur 5768, Sermon - On Suffering & Faith (pdf)
Kol Nidre 5768, Sermon - How to Apologize (pdf)
Rosh HaShanah 5767, Sermon - “Did Avraham Pass or Fail the Test?” (pdf)
Yom Kippur 5767, Sermon - Taking Care of Ourselves: Our Obligation to God (pdf)
So Many Different Haggadah’s: So Many Different Jews (pdf)
Standing at the Bank of the Sea Together (pdf)
Shabbat Ha Gadol: It’s Time for Pesah! Lighten Up! (pdf)
Parashat Sh'mot: JTS Torah Commentary (link)
Parashat Hukkat: What was Moses’s sin? (pdf)
A Prayer Offered on the Beginning of the Beth El Nursery School Year (pdf)
Why we must act to help the people of Darfur(pdf)
Dvar Torah Parashat Shoftim: given at UJC Metrowest's Women's Dept (pdf)
Parashat Ki Tavo: Lessons on Leadership and Responsibility (pdf)
Shabbat Shuvah Teaching Text(pdf)
Rosh HaShanah 5766, 1st Day Sermon - Reality TV and Judaism: Finding Happiness in our Own Lives(pdf)
Rosh HaShanah 5766, 2nd Day Sermon - God and the Book of Life: Who Writes Our Story (pdf)
Kol Nidre 5766, Sermon - I am Jewish: What Does It Mean?(pdf)
Yom Kippur 5766, Sermon - Judaism and the Soul: What Happens After We Die?(pdf)
Sukkot 1 5766, Sermon - The Joy of Judaism: The Message of Sukkot (pdf)
Sukkot 2 5766, Sermon - What are the Lulav and Etrog Really About?(pdf)