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Rabbi Greg Weisman
Rabbi Greg Weisman
Rabbi Greg Weisman has served Temple Beth El since 2013. An educator at heart, Rabbi Weisman has centered his work around teaching and developing relationships across the congregation, bringing a renewed passion for Jewish life and community. He is deeply passionate about the congregation’s Social Justice work, having led the congregation towards becoming a more diverse and inclusive community, having created a Racial Equity Leadership Team and an LGBTQ+ Task Force within the congregation. The racial equity initiative is an outgrowth of his work with the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (the RAC), where he served as a Balfour Brickner Clergy Fellow and currently serves on the leadership team of RAC-Florida. Rabbi Greg Weisman has guided the congregation in learning opportunities, building relationships with local communities of color, and led a Civil Rights Journey through the Deep South. He is actively engaged in our Early Learning Center, Religious School, and adult education programming, as well as the Temple’s Brotherhood.
Blogs By This Author
Shabbat Message
How Can We Begin To Heal?: Shabbat Message by Rabbi Greg Weisman
Note: The story of our beloved Shiri Bibas is unfolding in real time. This message was written on Friday morning around 10:30 am ET, when Shiri’s whereabouts were still unknown. Devastating. Gut-wrenching. Brutal. Unfathomable. These and many other superlatives have filled my social media feeds over the last few
February 21, 2025
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Finding Strength In Adversity: Shabbat Message by Rabbi Greg Weisman
This Shabbat Message is dually dedicated. First, it is dedicated to the memory of Rabbi Aimee Irshay Gerace, z”l, my friend and classmate, who passed fifteen months ago at the age of 40 after a valiant battle with breast cancer. It is also dedicated to the residents of Greater Los
January 10, 2025
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Together We Will Triumph: Shabbat Message by Rabbi Greg Weisman
Is Chanukah an important Jewish holiday? Most of us have had to answer that question at some time or another. Maybe it was to explain to our children or grandchildren, about why Chanukah feels different from other winter holidays, or why the entire community is dressed in red and green
December 27, 2024
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What’s In a Name?: Shabbat Message by Rabbi Greg Weisman
This week’s Torah portion has a special resonance with our congregation, because it has within it our Temple’s namesake. Jacob, on his journey from the mistakes of his youth to maturing into a leader of a family, stopped one night to sleep. He had a dream of a stairway or
December 6, 2024
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Old Beginnings: Shabbat Message by Rabbi Greg Weisman
We begin again. This week we restart our annual reading of Torah, returning once again to Parashat Bereshit and the story of Creation. But as momentous as it is to inaugurate another cycle of Torah reading, we actually return to this portion every single Shabbat, not just on this one.
October 25, 2024
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We Begin Our Days with Gratitude: Shabbat Message by Rabbi Greg Weisman
Thousands of years ago, the rabbis suggested that the first words out of our mouths upon awakening should be “I offer thanks to You, ever-living Ruler, that You have restored my soul to me in mercy: How great is Your trust.״ When our eyes open and our minds return to
September 13, 2024
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Who Brings Forth Bread From the Earth?: Shabbat Message by Rabbi Greg Weisman
“Hamotzi Lechem min Ha’aretz, we give thanks to God for bread…” Each week we celebrate Shabbat with our youngest in our Early Learning Center, on our Bima on Friday evening, and with our b’nai mitzvah on Shabbat day with those words and their familiar melody. The Motzi, our prayer before
August 30, 2024
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Espirit de Corps: Shabbat Message by Rabbi Greg Weisman
For the past week, many of us have been enjoying the Summer Olympics. Last weekend, my family and I watched the opening ceremonies together, and as each nations’ athletes were introduced from a boat coming down the Seine, my girls would ask, “Where is that? “Where is Estonia? Where is
August 2, 2024
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Divine Inspiration and Aspiration: Shabbat Message by Rabbi Greg Weisman
Of the many things I love about our Jewish tradition, near the top is the fact that we are an aspirational people and ours is an aspirational tradition. Rather than limit our view to how the world is in the moment we inhabit it, we are challenged by our tradition
July 26, 2024
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Spies of Pride – Sh’Lach L’Cha: Shabbat Message by Rabbi Greg Weisman
Today is the 55th anniversary of Stonewall. On that night in New York’s Greenwich Village, confronting the frequent threat of a police raid, patrons resisted efforts to be taken into custody. Scuffles turned into pushing and folks being knocked to the ground. Those who saw that grew incensed, who then
June 28, 2024
