Rabbi Cy Stanway's Podcast

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Send us Fan Mail In this sermon, I discuss the repentance the Reform movement has had to undergo.  As well, in the middle of the sermon a page was missing and I punted.  I kept the entire sermon as it was delivered to present the authentic experience, warts and all.  Listen to the very end....the lost page turned out to be a great teaching moment!

Send us Fan Mail This is the Yom Kippur morning sermon which speaks about our essential goodness in spite of the fact that the noise of people's evil inclination gets all the attention. 

Send us Fan Mail This is my Rosh Hashanna morning sermon for 2022. 

Send us Fan Mail Two Tornadoes An erev Rosh Hashanna sermon about restoring balance in our unbalanced world

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Send us Fan Mail The Russian barbarity in Ukraine has brought out the best in so many people.  In this sermon I discuss the experiences I had in Poland bring help to and bearing witness to the situation of the Ukrainian refugees forced to flee their homes.  Their pain is immeasurable and their determination inspiring.  I speak about this profoundly life-altering trip and hope that you, too, consid...

Send us Fan Mail A trip through the archives on my thoughts from Erev Passover, 2020

Send us Fan Mail A short meditation on the war in Ukraine and the sacrifices we make

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Send us Fan Mail Community Trust  Rosh Hashanna Morning 2021  Rabbi Cy Stanway   In this sermon I discuss the fundamental shift in our synagogues to a selfie-centered one and away from its real value: the soulful need for a community.

Send us Fan Mail The Disappearing Glacier In this sermon, I share the thoughts of our ever-changing climate and the spiritual response to it.

Send us Fan Mail In this short essay, I share some of my thoughts about the Chauvin trial, verdict and the little and big injustices we encounter - or contribute to - each day.

Send us Fan Mail In this short episode, I reflect on the concept of Yom Kippur of wearing a mask and the ethical shortcoming in not doing so.

Send us Fan Mail In this short episode, I consider the Atlanta shooter's racism and his feelings of relative impunity, his premeditation and his sense that the politicians he identified with would smile at his massacre.

Send us Fan Mail In this short reflection, I give my reaction to the new racist Georgia law that is so blatantly voter suppressive, it comes right out of Nuremburg.

Send us Fan Mail In this short commentary, Rabbi Stanway reflects on what our response ought to be and can be in the shadow of the violent events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast I explore the idea of the metaphor of the Jabbok, the essential change of Jacob and Esau and the bravery it takes to leave your old self behind but having first to expose it, not repress it.  

Send us Fan Mail Rabbi Stanway's Yom Kippur morning sermon from Temple Beth Miriam, Elberon, NJ. The question of the Days of Awe.....Now What?

Send us Fan Mail The Corona and the Crown - Distancing from our ugly selves to embrace who we think we really are.  Yom Kippur Evening Sermon 2020

Send us Fan Mail Rosh Hashanna morning sermon from Temple Beth Miriam.   Keeping the Ner Tamid alive and burning.

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