High Holiday Sermons

5784 (2023)

• Barbie, Oppenheimer & The High Holy Days (Lara Tessler, Rabbinic Intern, Erev Rosh Hashanah)
• Digging Deeper (Rabbi Mara Young, Rosh Hashanah Day 1)
• President's Remarks (Jenna Lebowich, Rosh Hashanah Morning 1)
• May I Be Empty And Open-Letting Go in the New Year (Cantor Jenna Mark, Rosh Hashanah Day 2)
• Forgiveness and Liberation (Rabbi Mara Young, Kol Nidre)
• The Cataclysm Sentence (Rabbi Mara Young and Cantor Jenna Mark, Yom Kippur Morning)

5783 (2022)

• The Cliffhanger of the New Year: How May Our Hearts Guide Us? (Lara Tessler, Rabbinic Intern, Erev Rosh Hashanah)
• Why Does the World Still Exist? (Rabbi Mara Young, Rosh Hashanah Day 1)
• President's Remarks (Jenna Lebowich, Rosh Hashanah Morning 1)
• The Spark of Creation (Cantor Jenna Mark, Rosh Hashanah Day 2)
• Divinely Imperfect (Rabbi Mara Young, Kol Nidre)
• Upholding Democracy (Rabbi Mara Young, Yom Kippur Morning)

5782 (2021)

• Growing into Teshuvah (Lara Tessler, Rabbinic Intern, Erev Rosh Hashanah)
• Covenanting for Life (Rabbi Mara Young, Rosh Hashanah Morning I)
• President's Remarks (Andy Farber, Rosh Hashanah Morning I)
• A Jewish Lens on Climate Change (Corey Friedlander, Shaliakh K'hilah,
  Rosh Hashanah Morning II)
• Building a Network of Compassion (Rabbi Mara Young, Kol Nidre)
• The Good Beneath (Rabbi Mara Young, Yom Kippur)

5781 (2020)

• Spinning Forward while on Pause (Zach Plesent, Rabbinic Intern, RH Evening)
• This Year, More than Anything Else, Vote! (Rabbi Billy Dreskin, RH Morning 1)
• President's Remarks (Andy Farber, RH Morning I)
• The Dawning of a New Era (Rabbi Billy Dreskin, RH Morning 2)
• Faith in God, Faith in People, Faith in Life (Rabbi Billy Dreskin, Kol Nidre
• Battling Today's Goliaths (Rabbi Mara Young, Yom Kippur Morning)
• Yizkor Speaker (Jonathan Kahn on his father, Gerald Kahn)
• Yizkor Speaker (Liz Mueller on her grandfather, Herman Grackin)
• Listen (Corey Freidlander, Shabbat Shuvah)

5780 (2019)

• Blinded by the Light (Zach Plesent, Rabbinic Intern, RH Evening)
• Faith (Rabbi Billy Dreskin, RH Morning 1)
• President's Remarks (Andy Farber, RH Morning 1)
• Hope for The Future (Cantor Jonathan Gordon, RH Morning 2)
• Refugees, Immigrants and Asylum Seekers ((Corey Friedlander, Shaliakh K'hilah, Shabbat Shuvah)
• Angels from Within (Rabbi Billy Dreskin, Kol Kidre)
• Walk In, Not Out (Rabbi Mara Young, YK Morning)

5779 (2018)

• Ready or Not (Zach Plesent, Rabbinic Intern, RH Evening)
• Heroes (Rabbi Billy Dreskin, RH Morning 1)
• President's Remarks (Andy Farber, RH Morning 1)
• Teach Them to Your Children (Cantor Jonathan Gordon, RH Morning 2)
• Eternal Life (Rabbi Billy Dreskin, Kol Nidre)
• In the Neighborhood (Rabbi Mara Young, YK Morning)
• Yizkor Speaker (Karen Berlowitz, on her brother Michael Schreiber)
• Yizkor Speaker (Mike Winkleman, on his father Harris Winkleman)

5778 (2017)

• The Power of a Limited God (Deena Gottlieb, Rabbinic Intern, RH Evening)
• Red-Hot Coals: The Value of Membership and Volunteering at Woodlands (Rabbi Billy Dreskin, RH Morning)
• President's High Holy Days Address (Dayle Fligel, RH Morning)
• To Tell the Truth (Cantor Jonathan Gordon, RH Morning 2)
• Loving the Stranger (Rabbi Billy Dreskin, Kol Nidre)
• The Boulder of Racism, the Rock of Justice (Rabbi Mara Young, YK Morning)

5777 (2016)

• Tzaddikim In Training (Jason Fenster, Rabbinic Intern, RH Evening)
• Our Yanov Torah (Rabbi Billy Dreskin, RH Morning)
• President's High Holy Days Address (Dayle Fligel, RH Morning)
• The Chosen People (Rabbi Billy Dreskin, Kol Nidre)
• Singing To Water Buffalos (Rabbi Mara Young, YK Morning)
• Remembering EJ Safirstein (Jack Safirstein, Yizkor)

5776 (2015)

• The Fruit from Our Tree (Jason Fenster, Rabbinic Intern, RH Evening)
• The Woodlands Way (Rabbi Billy Dreskin, RH Morning)
• President's High Holy Days Address (Dayle Fligel, RH Morning)
• Reading Jewish (Cantor Jonathan Gordon, RH Morning 2)
• 50 Years of Modest Justice and Mercy (Rabbi Billy Dreskin, Kol Nidre)
• I’m Jewish, but I’m Not Religious (Rabbi Mara Young, YK Morning)

5775 (2014)

• Toward Healing on Israel (Jason Fenster, Rabbinic Intern, RH Evening)
• Religion Versus Science? (Rabbi Billy Dreskin, RH Morning)
• President's High Holy Days Address (Stu Berlowitz, RH Morning)
• Seventeen Weeks (Cantor Jonathan Gordon, RH Morning 2)
• What Does It Mean To Turn (Corey Friedlander, Shaliakh K'hilah, Shabbat Shuvah)
• Noah: Pathway to a Second Chance (Rabbi Billy Dreskin, Kol Nidre)
• Anti-Semitism ... Again (Rabbi Mara Young, YK Morning)
• Yizkor Speaker (Geri Pell, on her father Ben Eisenman)
• Yizkor Speaker (Bonnie Mitelman, on her son Stephen Lelewer)

5774 (2013)

• Talking Israel (Rabbi Billy Dreskin, Rosh Hashanah Morning, 2013)
• President's High Holy Days Address (Stu Berlowitz, Rosh Hashanah, 2013)
• The Real Thing (Rabbi Billy Dreskin, Kol Nidre, 2013)
• Wholly Beautiful: What we say to girls (Rabbi Mara Young, Yom Kippur Morning, 2013)

5773 (2012)

• Let There Be Light! (Rabbi Billy Dreskin, Rosh Hashanah Morning, 2012)
• Eat to Live (Rabbi Billy Dreskin, Kol Nidre, 2012)
• The Woodlands Family Tree (Rabbi Mara Young, Erev Rosh Hashanah, 2012)
• Parade of Nations (Rabbi Mara Young,Yom Kippur Morning, 2012)
• Absolute Final (Cantor Jonathan Ben Gordon, Rosh Hashanah Morning, 2012)
• President's High Holy Days Address (Stu Berlowitz, Rosh Hashanah, 2012)

5772 (2011)

• Religion as Metaphor or at Least as a Broadway Musical (Rabbi Billy Dreskin, Rosh Hashanah Morning, 2011)
• Writing Our Book of Life (Rabbi Billy Dreskin, Yom Kippur Evening, 2011)
• A Speech for the Merit of Schoolchildren (Rabbi Mara Young, Rosh Hashanah Evening, 2011)
• At the Beginning (Rabbi Mara Young, Yom Kippur Morning, 2011)
• Welcome. So, why are we all here? (Corey Friedlander, A Service of Healing, 2011)