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Straight From The Pulpit (And Heart) — 311 episodes
Shabbat Shoftim 2026: I'm Not Religious
Shabbat Re'ah 2026: Between The Rivers
Shabbat Devarim 2026: A Warning To The Powerful
Shabbat Mattot Ma'saei 2026: Tribes and People
Shabbat Pinchas 2026: Garlic on the Rhine
Shabbat Shelach 2026: Promised Lands
Shabbat Naso 2026: The Mystic Chords In My Soul
Shavuot Day 1: Ruth's Problem Is Our Blessing
Shabbat BaMidbar 2026: The Family We Love
Shabbat Emor 2026: Teach Your Children Well
Shabbat Shemini 2026: Unpolitically Responsible
Pesach Yizkor 2026: New Eyes, Old Hearts
Passover 2026 Day 1: Be The Teachers of People
Shabbat Vayikra 2026: Long Live the 70's
Saturday Ki Tissa 2026: Let's Dance?
Shabbat Mishpatim 2026: Who Will Be Your Jewish Valentine?
Valera 2026: A Witness In Eyes and Heart - Conversation with Gal Bukshpan, Nova Festival Survivor
Shabbat VaYigash 2025: 2 Small Stories, 2 Big Lessons
Shabbat Hannukah 2025: Who Protects The Jews?
Shabbat VaYetze 2025: The Wrong-ness of Here-ness
Shabbat Hayei Sarah 2025: Real Heroes. Real Humans
Shabbat Vaera 2025: Herzl's Ghost
Shemini Atzeret Yizkor 2025: The Remembered, The Studied and The Missed
Shabbat Hol HaMoed Sukkot 2025: The 20/20 on 80/20
Solidarity Sunday October 5 2025: Rabbi Flanzraich at King Street Community Church
Sukkot Day 1 2025: Like Cures Like
Yom Kippur 2025: An Ocean of Truth
Neilah 2025: A Rope for Hope
Kol Nidre 2025 #3: What Day Is It?
Kol Nidre 2025 #2: Ibn Hadun's Dream
Kol Nidre 2025 #1: God in the Shul
Rosh HaShanah 2025: The Other Half
Shabbat Nitzavim 2025: Can You Be Married To The Same Person for 40 Years?
Shabbat Ki Tavo Board Installation 2025: How (we live) Explains Why (we are)
Shabbat Shoftim 2025: War and Crimes
Shabbat Re'eh 2025: A (Very) Kosher Sermon
Shabbat Nachamu 2025: Sadie Hawkins Day
Shabbat Mattot-Masa'ei 2025: Behold, A People
Shabbat Pinchas 2025: Promised Lands & Other Lessons
Shabbat Korach 2025: Jobs, Money, Blenders & You
Shabbat Shelach 2025: By Cunning Shall Thee Wage War
Shabbat Beha'alotecha 2025: The Enemies We Talk About
Shavuot 2025: Letters From Heaven
Shabbat Behar B'hukotai 2025: A Lesson From a Difficult Week
Shabbat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim: The Evil Son
Shabbat Tazria Mitzora 2025: Israel @ 100 (and beyond!)
Shabbat VaYikra 2025: The Jewish Difference
Shabbat VaYakhel 2025: Heart or Mind?
Shabbat Ki Tissa 2025: Sooner or Later
Shabbat Mishpatim 2025: The Smallest Coffins Are The Heaviest
Shabbat Bo 2025: Same Person, Many Faces
Shabbat VaYehi 2024: And Kaddish For All
Shabbat VaYigash 2025: Make Your Idea Ignite
Sermon Shabbat Hanukkah-Miketz 2024: Which Story is THE Story?
Shabbat VaYeshev 2024: 2 Words for Hannunkah
Shabbat VaYetze 2024: Take Time To Think
Shabbat Toldot 2024: So, How Was Israel?
Shabbat Lech Lecha 2024: On Home and Homelands
Shabbat Bereshit 2024: Antisemitism's Strange Journey To Today
Shabbat Sukkot 2024: Zionism's Mission
Sukkot 2024 #2: Good Enough
Sukkot 2024 #1: The Strangest Holiday
Neilah Yom Kippur 5785/2024: Not Yet Yesterday, Not Yet Tomorrow
Kol Nidre 5785/2024: The Lesson In Your Starbuck's Cup
Kol Nidre 5785/2024 #2: Never Say It's Over
Yom Kippur 5785/2024: The Machines Are Coming, But All Is Not Lost
Rosh Hashanah 2024: The Lie Which Cannot Succeed
Shabbat Nitzavim-VaYelech 2024: Aim Higher, Fail Better
Shabbat Key Tavo 2024: Ideas, Ideologies and Beepers
Shabbat Re'ah 2024: Maslow's Triangle Turned Upside Down
Shabbat Ekev 2024: Your Better Conversation
Shabbat Pinchas 2024: Moses's Great Fear
Shabbat Balak 2024: A Rush To Judgement
Shabbat Hukkat 2024: Is 80 the new 40?
Shabbat Korach 2024: And To Dust You Shall Return...
Shabbat Naso 2024: Difficult Questions, Harder Answers
Shabbat B'hukotai 2025: Truth and Messages
Shabbat B'hukotai 2024: Moses And His iPad
Shabbat Behar 2024: Guard Thy Tongue
Shabbat Emor Yom Ha'tzmaut 2024: A Sling, A Rock and a Lesson
Shabbat Kedoshim- Hashoah 2024: Frasier, Tao and a Song
Passover Yizkor 2024: Moral Imagination
Pesach Day 7 2024: The Miracles You Need Are Everywhere
Shabbat Hol HaMoed Pesach 2024: A Song of Hope
Pesach Day 1 2024: The Tale of Pavlik Morozov
Shabbat Metzora-Hagadol 2024: Beware of Leavened Bread
Shabbat Tazria 2024: Haredim, Pt. II
Shabbat Shemini 2024: Haredim, Pt. 1
Shabbat Tzav 2024: Where Is God
Shabbat VaYikra 2024: Questions
Shabbat Titzaveh 2024: What Kind of Man Will These Clothes Make?
Shabbat Yitro 2024: What To Worship
Shabbat B'shalach 2024: Miracle of Miracles
Shabbat Bo 2024: Dilemmas
Shabbat Shemot 2024: 3 Stories and a Headline
Shabbat VaYigash 2023: Messiah
Shabbat VaYishlach 2023: Mirror, Mirror
Shabbat Ha'ye Sara 2023: Decision Time
Shabbat Vayera 2023: Of People, Angels and Danger
Shabbat Bereshit: Existence
Shemini Atzaret Yizkor 2023: Yizkor With Israel
Shabbat Sukkot 2023: Moses, Buddha, Steve Jobs...and You?
Yom Kippur 2023: Happiness and Its Myths
Kol Nidre 2 2023: Bill Gates's Jewish Lesson
Kol Nidre 1 2023: The Water You Swim In
Shabbat Shuvah 2023: You Are So Invited to My Bar Mitzvah
Rosh Hashanah 5774/2023: What If?
Shabbat VaYelech 2023: 3 Rules
Shabbat Re'eh 2023: Lessons From The Middle
Shabbat Shelach 2023: A Wall, A Dot and You
Shabbat June 10 2023: Who Will You Listen To?
Shabbat Nasso 2023: Too Much Of A Good Thing
Shavuot Yizkor 2023: Of Writing and Weariness
Shabbat BaMidbar 2023: How Close Is Near?
Shabbat Behar Behukotai 2023: Let's Get Real
Shabbat Yom Ha'atzmaut 2023: To Be Or Not To Be
Shabbat Shemini 2023: Don't Laugh At Gwyneth
Pesach Yizkor 2023: Say My Name
Pesach Day 7 2023: Judaism's Best Message
Chol HaMoed Pesach 2023: Unleavened Living
Pesach Day 1 2023: Plagues and Lessons
Shabbat Tzav 2023: To The Streets
Shabbat Titzaveh 2023: You Are What You Are
Shabbat T'rumah 2023: Synagogues
Shabbat Bo 2023: The Explainer
Shabbat Vaera 2023: What Am I Doing?
Shabbat VaYigash 2022: Dream Away
Shabbat VaYeshev 2022: Don't Forget Dessert!
Shabbat VaYishlach 2022: What Timna Teaches Us
Shabbat VaYetze 2022: The Israel You May Not Know
Shabbat Conversation with Maj. Rami Sherman: To Entebbe and Back!
Shabbat Hol HaMoed Sukkot 2022: Are We There Yet?
Sermon for Shmini Atzaret Yizkor 2022: Unreconciled
Yom Kippur Neilah (finale) 5783/2022: What Are You Afraid Of?
Yom Kippur Yizkor 5783 - Lurching Inside
Rosh HaShanah Day 2 2022: A Message To The Lonely
Rosh Hashana Day 1 2022: Good Was Bad But Bad Is Good
Shabbat Nitzavim 2022: What New Year?
Shabbat Ki Taytze 2022: More Than The Eye Can See
Shabbat Shoftim 2022: The Future of Work
Shabbat Re'ah 2022: Life's Two Tragedies
Shabbat Ekev 2022: What We Talk About When We Talk About...
Shabbat Devarim 2022: The Day After The Messiah Comes
Shabbat Mattot-Ma'asei 2022: Lapid's Test
Shabbat Pinchas 2022: Elijah ain't who you think he is
Shabbat Korach 2022: The Book and The Sword (In Memory of David Weiss HaLivni y"h)
Shabbat Shelach 2022: Roe v. Wade
Shabbat Beha'alotecha 2022: Guard Thy Tongue
Shabbat Naso 2022: Behold, A People
Shabbat BaMidbar 2k22: A Trip or A Journey?
Shabbat Behar 2022: The Meaning of Einstein's Picture
Shabbat Kedoshim 2022: Our Secret
Shabbat Acharei Mot 2022: Why This Country Is Different From All The Others
Shabbat Tzav 2022: How Do You Count Time?
Shabbat VaYikra 2022: Simple Ingredients, Great Food
Shabbat Titzaveh 2022: The Greatest (Verse) Of All Time
Shabbat Peekuday 2022: Solomon Not David (or: the world you don't want Putin to build)
Shabbat VaYakhel 2022: Heavy Clouds and Putin
Shabbat Trumah 2022: Whoopi's Answer and Your Question
Shabbat Mishpatim 2022: Remember Me
Shabbat Yitro 2022: So You Think You're Free, Don't You?
Shabbat Beshalach 2022: Let The Small Be Mighty
Shabbat Vaera 2022: Ain't No Magic Here
Shabbat Vaera 2022: The Devil (and more than a few of us) Wears Prada
Shabbat VaYishlach 2021: Tik Tok and a Hannukah Story (apologies for the delay)
Shabbat Shemot 2021: A Month in Israel And Something To Say
Shabbat VaYishlach 2021: You Are Unfinished
Shabbat Toledot 2022: Why I Can't Read Old Letters
Shabbat Hayei Sara 2021: Tell Me Where It Hurts
Shabbat VaYera 2021: Where The Streets Have Names
Shabbat Lech Lecha 2021: The Long and Winding Road
Shabbat Noach 2021: A Book of Questions (Full Track)
Shabbat Ha'azinu 2021: The Lesson of the Rock
Yom Kippur 5782 - Who and What. Broken and Stronger.
Shabbat Nitzavim 2021: 9/11 and Jewish Memory
Rosh Hashana Day II 2021: Listen to Mike Tyson
Rosh HaShanah Day 1 2021: Be Not Silent
Shabbat Nitzavim 2021: Hold Tight. Let Go.
Shabbat Key Tavo 2021: Their Way/Our Way
Shabbat Key Taytzay 2021: Crying at the Movies
Shabbat Ekev 2021: Imagine
Shabbat Korach 2021: (Dis)Unity
Shabbat Shelach: Don't Lose Hope!
Shabbat BeHa'alotecha: What's It Gonna Be - Image or Character?
Shabbat Naso: God Has Something To Say To You
Shabbat BaMidbar: How To Talk About Israel When We Talk About Israel
Shavuot Day 1: Earth, Wind and Fire
Shavuot Yizkor 2021: Destination Unknown
Shabbat Behar-B'chukotai: The Lesson of Lessons
Shabbat Emor: Which Team Are You On?
Shabbat Acharei Mot Kedoshim: Truth to Power
Shabbat Tazria Metzora: What You Find In The Small
Pesach Yizkor: Wash, Rinse, Repeat
Pesach Day 1: Maxwell House IS Good To The Last Drop
Shabbat HaGadol: Why Puff Daddy Belongs At Your Seder
Shabbat VaYikra - Here We Go Again: Israeli Elections Round 4 (Gevalt)
Shabbat Vayakhel/Pekuday: What We Talk About When We Talk About The Royals
Shabbat Terumah: How Supreme Are Israel's Courts?
Shabbat Tetzaveh: Fill In The Blanks
Shabbat Terumah: What World We Live In
Shabbat Mishpatim: The Good Times Are Just Beginning
Shabbat Yitro: Religion's Real Lesson
Shabbat BiShelach: We Don't Need Rabbis (so said the rabbi:)
Shabbat Bo: Children with a Mission
Shabbat Vaera: 2 Boats and a Helicopter
Shabbat VaYechi: #VaccineNATION
Shabbat VaYigash: Elections! Hoping 4th Time Is A Charm
Shabbat Miketz 2020: It's Not About You
Becoming Jewish Conversation w/ Danielle Crittenden Frum On Conversion, Judaism, Marriage, And Life
Shabbat Chanukah 2020: 8 Days? Not True!
Shabbat VaYishlach 2020: 3 Stories, 1 Truth
Shabbat VaYetze 2020: What G-d Is Saying To You
Shabbat Toldot 2021: Great Jewish Athletes. Yes, Its True!
Shabbat Chayei Sarah 2020: Finding Leadership In A Cemetery/Cameo Dave Chappelle
Vayera 2020: It's Called Religion AND Politics For A Reason
Shabbat Noach October 24 - I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you
Shabbat Bereshit - October 17 2020 - Wristwatches, Suits, Ties, Business Class, Truth and Facts
Sukkot 2020: Get Used To It
Yizkor Shemini Atzeret 2020 - Question or Statement: Get Well Soon, Mr. President?
Yom Kippur 2020: Living With Failure, Growing With Failure
2 Sermons From Kol Nidre 2020: How We Got "Here" and Israeli Surprises
Shabbat Shuvah 2020: Yes, Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
Rosh Hashanah Day II: Rabbi Flanzraich's Sermons
Rosh Hashanah 2020 Day I Sermon: All Alone & Something To Be
Shabbat Nitzavim - September 12 2020: No Low Hanging Fruit Here!
Shabbat Key Tavo 2020: Seth Rogen's American Pickle
Shabbat Key Taytze August 29, 2020: Left, Right, Centre - Whose To Blame?
Shabbat Shoftim August 22, 2020: Listen Jews
Shabbat Re'eh 2020 - Israel, UAE, Peace: What The Past Can Teach
Ekev 2020 - Dimmed Fire, Bright Words (in memory of R. Adin Steinsaltz)
Shabbat Key Tavo 2020: Why Remember Anything?
Shabbat Hukat Balak 2020: Racism? Anti-Semitism? The Difference
Shabbat Korach 2020: Better A Descendent or A Disciple?
Shabbat VaYishlach 2020: Annexation?
Shabbat Baha'lotecha 2020: What Outside Teaches About Inside
Shavuot 2020 Day I: Why Ice Cream Makes Everything Better
Yizkor Shavuot 2020: When 'And' Is No More
Shabbat BaMidbar 2020: Where Am I Going?
Shabbat Behar Behukotai 2020: How We Learn, How We Change
Shabbat Emor 2020: Not Just Hope But The Hope
Shabbat Kedoshim 2020 - Care or Cure?
Shabbat Tazria Mezorah 2020: David Bowie and Modern Love
Shabbat Shemini 2020: What Does This All Mean?
Pesach Yizkor 2020: The Walls Have Come Down
Pesach Day 7 2020: What Is Freedom's Real Price?
Shabbat Hol HaMoed 2020: Back In Toronto and in Quarantine. Again!
2nd Day Pesach 2020: Is It Better To Be An Adult Or A Child?
Shabbat Terumah 2020: Is It Most True to Be A Jew?
Shabbat Bo 2020: At The Crossroad!
Shabbat Va'era 2020: What Is There To Be Afraid of?
Shabbat Sh'mot 2020 - You Shall Not Hide
Rosh HaShanah Day 2 Discussion with Rabbis Flanzraich & Rothschild
Rosh HaShanah 2019 Day 1: We Need Herzl's Eyes
Shabbat Sukkot 2019: Things Parents Say
Yizkor Shemini Atzeret 2019: Memories and Lions
Kol Nidre 3: Why Hebrew?
Neilah 2019: "We Are Many"
Yom Kippur Yizkor 2019: There Are No Substitutes for Living
Kol Nidre 2019: #1 "Lost & Found" #2 "The Choosing People"
Shabbat Shoftim 2019: What Will You Choose To Be?
Shabbat Ekev 2019 - Israel: Jewish, Democratic or Both?
Behaalotecha 2019 - Elections Israeli Style!
Naso 2019: How Strong Are You?
Shavuot 2019 The Map Of Your Life
BaMidbar 2019 Wonderful? Painful? Family!
B'Hukotai: Ideas That Never Die
Dare You Speak Your Mind?
The Question Before Us: True or Right; Safety or Lives?
Pesach Yizkor 2019 - We Are Limited and Limitless
Pesach 2019 - Courage and Hope
What We Really Talk About When We Talk About Auschwitz
Shabbat B'Shalach 2k19 - Why The Mighty Fall
Shabbat Vayigash 2k18: The Journey Of Your Life
Shabbat Vayeshev 2018 - Choose Your Chanukah Miracle
Shabbat VaYishlach 2018 - A Report From Germany
Shabbat Chayei Sarah 2018: What Are The Jews To Do?
Shabbat VaYera - A Conversation with Imam Abdullah Antepli
SBS Lech Lecha 2018 - Is Religion Truth or Fact?
Neilah 2018 "The Gate That Waits For You"
Yom Kippur Yizkor 2018 Einstein's Dream
Kol Nidre 2018 #2 The Parent Who Loves You
Kol NIdre 2018 #1 - Seeing Feelingly
Rosh HaShanah Day 2 "Why Be Here?"
Rosh Hashanah Day 1 "A People Who Don't Walk A Straight Line"
Shabbat Shelach 2018 - 3 Simple Words: Fauda Season 2
Shabbat Korach 2018 Will Having Make Your Being?
Shabbat Beha'alotecha Where Is Heaven Found?
Naso 2018 Being A Good Neighbor
Shabbat Itanu 2018 Making Every Me A Part Of The We
Shabbat Kedoshim - How Do You Live In A Dangerous World?
Pesach Yizkor 2018 - Why Can't I Just Forget?
Shabbat Pesach 2018 - Guns or Souls?
VaYikra 2018 The Keys To Heaven Are On Earth
Yitro 2017 How Safe Is Safe?
Shabbat T'rumah - Poland, History, Memory And Truth
Ki Tissa 2017 What Makes Us Good?
Sermon Miketz Trump's Jerusalem
VaYishlach 2017 Look Them In The Eye!
Vayelech 2017 Taking Sex and Giving Love
Chayei Sarah - Do You See Or Feel?
SBS Lech Lecha 2017 - Your Money Or Your Life?
Sukkot 2017 - Tear Down That Wall!
Shemini Atzeret Yizkor 2017 - Eternal Memories
Shabbat Sukkot 2017 What Is It Like To Not Have A Home
Kol Nidre 2 - Gifts From Above
Kol Nidre 1 - Journeys
Yom Kippur 2017 The Broken & The Beautiful
Rosh HaShanah: Courage & Character
B'shalach 2017 Broken Glasses And Happy LIves
Baha'alotecha - Will You Live by Truth or Fact?
Shavuot Yizkor 2017 - The End of Egypt