Judaism trains our minds to frame what could otherwise be unremarkable moments and transform them into sacred occasions. On a January morning in 2007, in the middle of rush hour, a young man stepped out of a subway train into L’Enfant Plaza Station in Washington DC and positioned himself against a wall near a trash [...]
Rosh Hashanah 5771 The Rabbi, the Cantor, and the President of the synagogue were flying home from a conference when their plane crashed on a tiny pacific island. The three men crawled out of the wreckage only to be captured by a tribe of vicious cannibals. The chief of the tribe said to the men, [...]
The High Holy Days call up on us – both as individuals and as a community – to rediscover the treasures within ourselves that allow us to be the best we can be. Rosh Hashanah 5770 / September 20, 2009 Less than 2 weeks ago, a reporter from the Inter-Mountain Jewish News called me – [...]
Rosh Hashanah 5769 “Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die” {sing} “b’Rosh Hashanah yikatevun, u’b’yom ztom kippur yihateimun” Isn’t that a wonderful melody? It’s really very stirring? For me it triggers memories of sitting in shul with my parents and grandparents on the High Holy Days listening to the hazzan intone, in a beautiful tenor, [...]
Rabbi Salomon Gruenwald has served as the Associate Rabbi of Congregation HEA in Denver, CO since his ordination from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles in 2008. He also serves as a volunteer chaplain with the Denver Police Department. He and his spouse, Melanie Gruenwald, have three children.
