Adir Glick
Rabbi
Rabbi Adir Glick began his tenure at Temple Har Zion in August, 2015.
David Schwartz
EDUCATION DIRECTOR
David has been with Temple Har Zion since 2018.
Stewart Figa
Cantor
Cantor Stewart Figa has served at Temple Har Zion since 1998.
September 10, 2024 | Israel
Heartbreaking News of the Killing of the Hostages
September 2, 2024 Dear friends, This week I am returning from my sabbatical, and I am coming back shattered. The news of the murder of six hostages in Gaza yesterday–killed after ten long months of captivity–is devastating and heartbreaking. The story of their lives and their names and faces from hostage posters and news reports […]
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November 16, 2023 | Current Events | Israel
Reflections on the Washington March for Israel on Tuesday, Nov 14
Dear Friends, On Tuesday, Rachel and I, and a small group from our synagogue joined nearly 300,000 other American Jews in an extraordinary and exhilarating march for Israel in Washington D.C. Our day began at Midway airport at 6am with a departure hall overflowing with blue and white. Everywhere we looked were Israel-themed beanies, shirts, […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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