Just us for this Musical Participatory Service led by Cantor Sidney Ezer and the HarmonEzers, our a capella choir, conducted by Asher Farber. We will explore many classic and familiar melodies as well as new and modern ones. With inspiring arrangements and innovative harmonies, we welcome you to sign along with us.

Our Shabbat scholar this week is Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman who joins us for a pulpit presentation on "Not So Small Talk: Discussing Our Age of Anxiety and Change", and will participate in the rededication of the Dr. Small Lounge following Services. Everyone is welcome.

Services are offered for in person daveners and livestreamed via https://bethtzedec.tv. 

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Lawrence A. Hoffman was ordained as a rabbi in 1969, received his doctorate in 1973, and is now professor emeritus at the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where he served for almost half a century.

Known internationally for his lectures to popular audiences and his spiritual approach to synagogue consultation, Rabbi Hoffman has written or edited 49 books to date, including "My People's Prayer Book," a 10-volume edition of the Siddur with modern commentaries which won the National Jewish Book Award in 2007.

Rabbi Hoffman served as visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame for many years and has lectured at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the University of Southern California, and the Yale Divinity School, among other institutions. He holds honorary degrees from Graetz College and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and is a recipient of the Abraham Geiger Medal.

In 1994, he co-founded "Synagogue 2000," a trans-denominational project to envision the ideal synagogue "as moral and spiritual center" for the 21st century. From 2004 to 2015, the organization (renamed "Synagogue 3000") launched Next Dor, a call for transformed synagogues to engage the next generation. His highly acclaimed "Open Letters to My Students" can be followed on his blog, "Life and a Little Liturgy.