Rabbi Cy Stanway's Podcast

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.

Send us Fan Mail Rabbi Cy Stanway's Erev Rosh Hashanna sermon

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I respond to the call to open up all the schools and ponder the wisdom.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I reflect on science, denial and how someone else's denial may very well be mortal to me or you.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I explore the tension of a symbol and whether it is simply a piece of cloth on a stick or something much, much more important.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I reflect on an emerging theology in America, well-known to African Americans and communities of color, but relatively unheeded by majority religious establishments.  

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I ponder on the similarities and differences between our journey through this pandemic and the Jews' journey through the desert.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I explore the connection between the similarity of the lies we tell ourselves about this virus and my favorite genre; the zombie movie.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I am exploring the consequences of knowing when to stay silent in the face of death and offer my suggestions to the politicians, our friends and families, and co-workers who are trying to talk the issue away, diminish its impact and generally try to innure us to the pain.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I share the inspiration I got from a Zoom call last night and maybe help you dig the same wells of a life-sustaining water.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I make an observation of the two conflicting Jewish traditions: 'Life is with people,' and 'Therefore choose life' and how the pandemic is putting that to the test.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I give a little thought to what we may have lost in our months of quarantine.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I reflect on how truly great some people can be.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I address my reaction to Dr. Oz's suggestion that a small percent of students are expendable just as long as he can get to Home Depot.

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast I share my thoughts about the real heroes of this pandemic and the inner strength that each one of these remarkable people show in the face of evolving hate.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of 5 1/2 minutes I talk about the notion of exile and how it is part of the Jewish DNA and how, in a sense, we are all experiencing a Jewish phenomenon.  

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast, I offer a way to confront this virus with the well-known characteristic of chutzpah klapei hashamayim - Confronting Heaven.