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 [...]
Shabbat: When There’s Nowhere You Have to Be After my sermon last week, someone came up to me and said, “so, rabbi, you like Christmas but you hate Halloween, huh?” What the person was referring to is that I gave a sermon before Halloween that was ever-so-slightly critical of Jews trick-or-treating; and last week I [...]
Judaism draws our attention to the preciousness and holiness of moments in time, reminding us of the limits of our power as human beings. Until recently, if you had asked me to go camping, I probably would have made an excuse not to go. I’ve been camping before and I’ve had good experiences. But I’ve [...]
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.
