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.
June 24, 2025 | Current Events
Thoughts on the future of Israel, the US, and Iran
June 23, 2025 Dear Friends, We are living in both worrying and interesting times. On Shabbat afternoon, when I heard that the U.S. launched strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities, I worried about the repercussions. Would Iran retaliate and drag the US into a broader war? What else could happen? I also had a moment of […]
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June 24, 2025 | Current Events
Israel’s Strikes Against Iran
Last night began a campaign that has been anticipated for more than two decades, since it became clear that Iran was seeking a nuclear weapon. I remember hearing from our close family friend – the Israeli author and journalist Yossi Klein Halevi – many times since my childhood that Israel would go in to stop this existential threat.
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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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