Shabbat Hol Ha-Mo’ed Pesach, Confirmation Shabbat The Passover haggadah admonishes us every year saying, “it is incumbent on each person to see him or herself as one who was liberated from Egypt.” This is meant to remind us that our people’s Exodus from Egypt, is not a singular event that took place in the distant [...]
Parashat Ki Tetze 5770 Having young children in your home at times feels like being the anthropologist living among warring tribes of ruthless Ya̧nomamö warriors. Take my two year-old twins (please). I like to observe Hannah and Micah when they don’t think I’m watching. It’s interesting to see how they figure out problems together (like [...]
While the law doesn’t have the right to censor people, we as consumers and as a community should respond to hateful and violent speech like it’s an infectious disease – we should identify it quickly, isolate it, and if we can, cure it before it kills somebody. Parashat Tazria-Metzorah 5770 By now we’ve all heard [...]
Parashat Va’era 5769 – January 24, 2009 Free at Last, Free at Last… Not so Fast. Freedom is not an event, but rather an unfolding process of reaching toward our highest human potential. Shabbat Shalom. I wish to begin with a disclaimer: This sermon is not about President Barak Obama. I’m not going to offer [...]
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.
