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Debra Cantor

Nov 15, 2016, 3:29 AM

Some Rabbinic Advice for President-Elect Trump

November 2016/Heshvan 5777 To President-Elect Trump: Although I am a rabbi, I do not purport to speak for the entire American Jewish community, let alone the Jewish people as a whole. Though there is a great deal that links us together,...

Oct 21, 2014, 10:23 AM

Taking the Sukkah down in time for the seder

The hagim have ended and, honestly, I feel relieved. Don’t get me wrong, they were mostly wonderful and meaningful and festive. Truly they were. But by the close of Simhat Torah (which here in the Diaspora continued right into Shabbat),...

Oct 7, 2014, 8:17 PM

K’chu imachem d’varim….Take words with you!

Shuvah Yisrael! Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, For you have fallen because of your sin. K’chu imachem d’varim Take words with you And return to the Lord. Thus proclaimed the prophet Hosea, addressing the Jews of Northern Israel some 2800 years ago....

Sep 2, 2014, 1:20 AM

Searching for Sermons

“They’re cutting down the birch tree in the front yard,” my husband announced early one morning. “Our birch tree? Go find out why and make them stop!” I loved that birch tree. It stood in the tiny front yard...

Sep 2, 2014, 1:17 AM

Gam zeh ya’avor

“Gam zeh ya’avor /This too shall pass.” – Ancient Jewish/Persian saying I first heard this Hebrew phrase many years ago, as a college student. I was visiting a friend’s family, when I noticed a curious object on the coffee table...

About Me

Debra Cantor was ordained in 1988, a member of the first Jewish Theological Seminary Rabbinical School class to include women. She has worked in synagogues, day schools, Jewish camps and communal agencies. Her husband is a nurse, her son is in college and her daughter just made aliyah. Debra loves teaching and playing with art supplies. Creativity is her middle name. Actually, it's Sue...