Publications & Important Messages
High Holy Days 5785
- Rabbi Bender's Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon PDF, Video
- Rabbi Soffer's Rosh Hashanah Sermon PDF, Video
- Rabbi Soffer's Kol Nidre Sermon PDF, Video
- Rabbi Bender's Yom Kippur Sermon PDF, Video
- Rabbi Friedman's Prayer PDF
Israel, October 2023
- Rabbi Soffer's Sermon on Campus Protests, April 26, 2024 PDF
- Rabbi Soffer's Statement to the Durham City Council on February 8. 2024 PDF
- Andrew Geller, VP Board of Trustees D'Var Torah on Dec. 2, 2023 PDF
- Rabbi Soffer's Sermon on October 13, 2023 PDF, Video
- Board Statement on Israel/Hamas War, October 30th, 2023 PDF
- Rabbi Soffer Announces Trip to Israel, November 7, 2023 PDF
- Rabbi Soffer's Sermon on December 9, 2023 - PDF, Video
High Holy Days 5784 Texts and Recordings
- Address from President Aron Silverstone PDF, Video
- Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon from Rabbi Melissa Simon Video
- Rosh Hashanah Morning Sermon from Rabbi Matthew Soffer PDF, Video
- Kol Nidre Sermon from Rabbi Matthew Soffer PDF, Video
- Yom Kippur Morning Sermon from Rabbi Robin Damsky PDF, Video
- Yom Kippur Morning Family Sermon from Rabbi Soffer PDF, Video
- Yizkor Sermon from Rabbi Soffer PDF
Circle of Honor Donor List
October 31, 2022 - PDF
February 1, 2-23 - PDF
June 30, 2023 PDF
October 31, 2023 PDF
February 29, 2024 PDF
July 7, 2024 PDF
November 15, 2024 PDF
High Holy Days 5783 Texts and Recordings
- 5783 Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon, Rabbi Soffer: PDF and Video
- 5783 Rosh Hashanah Morning Sermon, Rabbi Soffer: PDF and Video
- A Rosh Hashanah Prayer from Rabbi Friedman PDF and Video
- President's Message from Heidi Tyson PDF and Video
- 5783 Yom Kippur Morning Sermon, Rabbi Damsky: PDF
Important Sermons from Rabbi Matthew V. Soffer
- God's Love Extends to All, July 5783 PDF
- The American Jew and the State of Israel: Yom Haatzmaut 5783 (2023) PDF and Video
- Reflections on Antisemitism, October 5783 (2022) PDF and Video
- 5782 Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon: PDF and Video
- 5782 Rosh Hashanah Morning Sermon: PDF and Video
- 5782 Kol Kidre Sermon: PDF and Video
- 5781 Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon: PDF and Video
- 5871 Rosh Hashanah Morning Sermon: PDF and Video
- 5781 Kol Nidre Sermon: PDF and Video
- 5781Yom Kippur Morning Sermon: PDF and Video
- Sermon in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day: PDF and Video
- Sermon: Voting in WZO Israeli Elections: PDF and Video
Special Remarks from our Community to our Community
- A Poem for the Genizah Burial by Ezra Greene
- A Prayer at St. Joseph's AME, Eight Years After the Attack on Emmanuel AME in Charleston, SC
- Rabbinic Reflections on Overturning Roe v. Wade
- From Rabbi Soffer: In the Wake of the Massacre in Uvalde, TX
- From Rabbi Soffer: Facing the Ukraine, We Bind Prayer to Action, March 10, 2022
- From Rabbi Soffer: We Thank God, January 16th, 2022
- Grief Leave: A Time of Mourning, November 4, 2021
- Transcription and video of Heidi Tyson's President's Message (Erev Rosh Hashanah - Monday, September 6, 2021) [view video]
- Transcription and video of Ziva Raney's President's Message (Erev Rosh Hashanah - Sunday, September 29, 2019) [view video]
- Fifteen Voices: Reflections on an Anshei Mitzvah Journey, a commentary by our 2019 Anshei Mitzvah Class.
- Shabbat Blessings, Lily Posner-Hess, December 2020
- Transcription and video of Ziva Raney's Mid-Year President's Message, February 2021.
Where We Stand . . .
Social justice position statements, letters to officials, and other communications on the following:
- JRC Resolution Supporting Reproductive Justice (March, 2023)
- NC Klei Kodesh Rabbinic Letter to Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (October 19, 2021)
- A Letter from Local Synagogue Rabbis to UNC Leadership: August 13, 2021
- North Carolina Rabbis' & Cantors' Statement on George Floyd and Systemic Racism
- On North Carolina's Public Facility Privacy and Security Act (House Bill 2, March 2016)
- Public Policy Position Against NC Constitutional Amendment to Require Voter Identification (August 14, 2018)
- Letter to Durham's Human Relations Commission December 2018
- Letter to the Durham Human Relations Commission from Area Rabbis December 2018
- An Open Letter on Antisemitism from Triangle Jewish Community Leaders
- Our position on the Gizella Abramson Holocaust Education Act (HB 437)
Our Pillars, Our Promise
On Three Things
Rabbi Soffer's message about Shabbat as worship services are canceled across the nation because of COVID-19,
broadcast on Channel 11 ABC, before Shabbat, March 20, 2020.
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