Central Reform Congregation
 

Many have requested copies of the teachings--sermons, articles, etc.--of our rabbis. Below is a collection of teachings from CRC's rabbis and from guest speakers at CRC.

Special Download!

Hashkivenu

If you've ever been to an evening service led by Rabbi Randy, you've probably heard the special CRC version of the Hashkivenu.  Now you can download an mp3 recording of this song!  Recording features a wonderful group of CRC musicians: Rabbi Randy Fleisher, Leslie Caplan, Marty Miller, Andrew John, and Steve Friedman.

Click here to download.

Rabbi Susan Talve

Today's Health Reform Vote - December 24, 2009

At Hanukkah, a contemporary battle against oppression - December 16, 2009

Missouri Inauguration Benediction - January 12, 2009

Proposition 8 Op-Ed - November 14, 2008

HUC Ordination Address

 

Rabbi Randy Fleisher

  

   From the Left Wing

   jewishinstlouis.org blog
   by Rabbi Fleisher

   click here to link

   July 2010: Red, White, and Blue Seder

   Previous postings:

   Hippies, Hair, and Harmony

  A License for Hope and Change

  Handcuffs at the Seder

  Judaism Marries Japanese

  Heschel, King, and Their Legacy

  Holy Ground Hannukah

  A Family Reunion

  Back to Nature

  Praying to the King 

  Jewish Universalism

Sukkot: Come Together (5770)

Facebook: Yom Kipper 5770 Sermon

Keynote Speech at the Colorado Rocky Mountain School Symposium on Activism

A Holy Response to Picketers

My First Family (on the inauguration of President Barak Obama)

Memorial Service for Allen “Moe” Sigoloff (November 23, 2008)

Tree in Tree, Rosh Hashanah 5769

Earth Air Fire Water

Native Judaism

Sing a New Song, Secular Music and Prayer

A Change in Kaddish

A Shul in the City

Coffeehouse Friend

Global Warming

Holy Ground

Holy Interruption

I-Thou and the Trees

Jewish Diversity

Justice Day

Names

Purim and Medicaid Cuts

Racial Diversity

Road to Nowhere

Sermon 5765--Dismantling Racism

Sermon 5767--Post Modern Past and Future

SLIID Conclave and Congresman William Lacy Clay

Torah of a Longhair

Urban Planning

 

Rabbi Ed Harris

Is Thanksgiving a Jewish Holiday? (November 2009)

From Ashes of Tisha B’Av to the Haftarot of Comfort and Consolation (August 2009)

Where Have All Our Holidays Gone? (October 2008)

Working with Forgiveness in Gestalt Therapy (2007)

God, Buber, and the Practice of Gestalt Therapy (2000)

Rabbinic Ordination (2008)

Riding the Wave of Arrogance to Discover Our Humility (sermon 5770)

Choosing Life by Keeping Our Commitments (sermon 5769)

Holy Interruptions and Distractions (sermon 5768)

How's My Driving?: Finding Our Gratitude (sermon 5767)

Teshuvah Retuning and Returning in the New Year (sermon 5766)

From Awful to Awesome: Re-envisioning Our Sins to Move Toward Forgiveness (sermon 5765)

Finding Our Voices in the New Year (sermon 5764)

Hineni: I Am Fully Present (sermon 5763)

 

 

Rabbi Rami Shapiro

Scholar-in-Residence, Spiritual Enrichment Weekend 2009

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D'var Torah: "Shall Not the Judge of All the Earth Do Justly:
The Abrahamic Roots of the Prophetic Mission" - January 9, 2009

"Reinventing Judaism for the 21st Century: God" - January 10, 2009

"Reinventing Judaism for the 21st Century: Torah" - January 10, 2009

"Reinventing Judaism for the 21st Century: Israel" - January 11, 2009

 

Susannah Heschel, PhD

Common Ground - The Relationship and the Theological and Scriptural
Threads of Connection between the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

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