Eytan Kenter

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Aug 10, 2020, 10:23 PM

For the High Holidays, to Zoom or not to Zoom is not the question

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Now is the time to focus on the value of personal prayer and how to utilize this time for a deeper personal connection with God

May 8, 2020, 11:56 PM

Sukkot as a Paradigm for a Post-COVID Judaism

I have always been taken by the section of this week’s Torah portion of Emor that deals with Sukkot. That is, in part, because back to back it tells us two different versions of how to practice Sukkot. The...

Apr 5, 2020, 11:12 PM

Remembering the fifth child

The Seder is a night of “fours.” For example, there are four questions, four children, and four cups of wine. For each of the four cups, we are reminded of the four promises that God made to us regarding...

Nov 22, 2019, 10:53 PM

A Torah’s Journey to Tanzania

The moment of revelation at Mount Sinai is one of relationship. There are the Israelites who are honoured to accept the Torah, excited for all that the Torah will allow them to do. But it is also a moment...

May 30, 2018, 10:00 PM

Everything I Needed to Know about Synagogue Success I Learned from the NBA

For my bar mitzvah speech, I was more interested in speaking about basketball than anything related to that morning's Torah reading. Judaism and basketball have always been passions of mine, but it was only just recently that I realized...

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About Me

Eytan Kenter serves as the Senior Rabbi of Kehillat Beth Israel, a Conservative synagogue in Ottawa, Ontario.