Rabbi's Weekly Message
25 Years - Countering Evil
September 6, 2026
I remember that moment like it was yesterday. I was in Oklahoma City, helping for the High Holy Days, when my buddy Ovadia, the local Shliach, barged into my room, heading up to his office, because something just happened in New York. My family was in New York, fear was real, phones were down, but within a few hours I knew that my parents and siblings were fine. Yet, I knew that our country was reeling, so many lives taken by Islamic terrorists; it would never be the same. That evening I joined Ovadia at the home of a local Jew, Dr. Joel Corn, to watch the evening news and see what was going on in NY, DC and Pennsylvania. It was hard to fathom this type of evil, barbarity, the same evil that we saw raise its ugly head twenty-two years later on October 7th in Israel. Good people can’t understand evil.

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I think of myself as a juggler: leading a Jewish community with my sushi loving husband, caring for my five rambunctious kids (who are adopted), and living in the Wild West of Montana, where it’s ALWAYS winter (or so it feels). It’s an art to be juggler, to live our fullest potential and still have very real lives. Not the perfect, glossy, manicured ones we so often encounter. I am here to be real.










