Video, Audio, Photos, Writings

NOTE: There are more videos on the restricted portion of the Beth El site for members. 

2025:

• Dani Moeller’s D’var Torah (February 8, 2025)
• Sanctuary Committee Coffee House (CASA — February 2, 2025)

2024:

• Zach Mayer Shabbat Rinah (December 20, 2024)
• The Injustices of the Criminal Legal System, with Stacey Borden, Founder and Director, New Beginnings Reentry Services (November 17, 2024)

High Holidays 2024:

• • Rabbi Josh’s Kol Nidre sermon (October 11, 2024)
  • Cantor Vera’s Rosh Hashanah 2024 d’var (October 4, 2024)
  • Rabbi Josh’s Rosh Hashanah sermon (October 3, 2024)
  • President Jerry Kazin’s Rosh Hashanah address (October 3, 2024) 

For d’vars by gabbais, see “Writings and Talks by Others” below.

• Living through Oct. 7th (June 15, 2024
• Purim Spiel (March 2024)
• HIAS Concert (February 3, 2024)
• HIAS Coffee House (February 4, 2024)

2023:

• Installation of Cantor Vera Broekhuysen (December 9, 2023)
• Is Your Home Someone’s Workplace? Domestic Workers Rights and Your Responsibilities as an Employer (May 4, 2023)

2022:

• Precious Legacies: Our Ritual Objects and Their Stories (May 23, 2022)
• Rob Leikind, Director of American Jewish Committee (June 27, 2022)
• Anita Diamant (May 1, 2022)
• Dr. Len Saxe (February 5, 2022)
• The Ongoing Journey: Rectifying Institutional Racism in the Arts: Janie Cohen, Director of the Fleming Museum of Art in Burlington, VT (January 8, 2022)
• Sharing My Experience as the Rabbi of Brunswick, GA, Home of Ahmaud Arbery: Rabbi Rachael Bregman (January22, 2022)

2021:

• Videos from L’Hitra’ot to Lorel
• Beth El Education Journey

Earlier:

• Habitat for Humanity build in 2017 (Beth El is discussed starting at 1:00)
• Webinar: Greening your home heating and cooling
• Webinar: Greening your home electricity

• Recordings from Cantor Vera Broekhuysen
• Recordings from Cantor Emerita Lorel Zar-Kessler

Rabbi Josh Breindel

• Recognizing the Daily Miracles of Life — During Chanukkah, Rabbi Josh ponders teachings Obi-Wan Kenobi and Abraham Joshua Heschel about the power of shifting one’s perspective to transform the mundane into the miraculous. (Jewish Journal of Greater Boston, Dec. 31, 2024)
  
• Fantasy, Science Fiction and Judaism — Discuss! — A profile of Rabbi Josh, the “Sci-Fi Rabbi” (Jewish Journal of Greater Boston, Nov. 21, 2024)
• Rosh Hashanah sermon (October 3, 2024)
• Erev Rosh Hashanah sermon (October 2, 2024)
• Bereshit: Hearts Stretched to Breaking — D’var Torah following terrorist attack in Israel
• Rosh Hashanah sermon 2023 (video; sermon starts at 1:25)
• “The Path of Blessing” — during the month of Elul, remembering G-d’s charge to care for the earth (JewishBoston.com)
• Rosh Hashanah sermon 2022 (video)
• Yom Kippur sermon 2022 (video)
• Erev Rosh Hashanah sermon 2021
• Rosh Hashanah sermon 2021
• Kol Nidre sermon 2021
• Yom Kippur sermon 2021

• D’var Torah by Dani Moeller in observance of Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion Month (Feb. 8, 2025)
• D’var Torah by Cantor Vera Broekhuysen on Dec. 7, 2024 after traveling to Washington, D.C. for the “Freedom to Be Ourselves” rally for trans rights

High Holidays 2024 — gabbai d’vars:

• Larry Haydu (Rosh Hashanah)
• Lizza Sandoe (Rosh Hashanah)
• Janet Strassman-Perlmutter (Yom Kippur)
• Pam McArthur (Y0m Kippur)

High Holidays 2023:

• Cantor Vera Broekhuysen — Rosh Hashanah 2023 d’var
• Michelle Feinblum — Rosh Hashanah 2023 President’s Message