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Who We Are
History of Beth El
Membership Information
Our Clergy
   Rabbi Francine Roston
   Cantor Perry Fine
   Rabbi Jehiel Orenstein,
          Emeritus

Education Directors
Executive Director & Staff
Congregational Nurse
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Rabbi Roston's Sermons, Divrei Torah

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Sanctity and Kashrut: Agriprocessors and Hekhsher Tzedek (pdf)
Kedoshim, Sermon - 2008Wright-Obama (pdf)
2nd Day Rosh HaShanah 5768, Sermon - Tzedekah (pdf)
Yom Kippur 5768, Sermon - On Suffering & Faith (pdf)
K0l Nidre 5768, Sermon - How to Apologize (pdf)
2nd Day 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, Day 1 Sermon - Reality TV and Judaism: Finding Happiness in our Own Lives(pdf)
Rosh HaShanah 5766, Day 2 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)