October 17, 2023 | Current Events

Finding Unity

Rabbi Glick’s speech at the October 17th solidarity with Israel gathering at Oak Park Temple. We have heard tonight from our local Jewish community a piece of what we the Jewish people have been undergoing, feeling, and expressing over the past ten days all around the world. We have invited our civic leaders, clergy leaders, […]

August 28, 2023 | High Holidays | Liturgy

Mitigating the Decree

August 21, 2023 | Performance

Dos Reydeleh Dreyt Zikh – “The Wheel Keeps Turning”

Professionally, one of the best moments of my summer this year was performing a concert for the Chicago YIVO society at the Skokie Public Library back in June. The Chicago YIVO society always presents a summer festival series of individual performances or lectures, and I have been doing my concerts for YIVO since 1990. That […]

July 10, 2023 | Israel | Sermon | Spiritual

Sermon – In Need of Shepherds – Israel in Prayer

I was just in Israel. A nation going through tremendous upheaval. There was this moment in my first few days. We went to see a concert of a celebrated singer of piyyutim, Sephardic religious melodies. She came on and she was struggling. She said it was not easy for her to come do a concert […]

June 5, 2023 | Blessing | Spiritual

Don’t Wait to Bless Others

One of my favorite moments in our services is when at the end we chant in Hebrew and English the priestly blessing. I look and I see members of the congregation putting their arms around each other, and standing still, waiting, even receptive. We know what this moment is about, there is a clarity to […]