Senior Rabbi Dan Moskovitz
Senior Rabbi of Temple Sholom since July 2013
Jewish Life and Community in the Shadow of October 7th
With Rabbi Dan Moskovitz (March 2025)
The impact of October 7 and its aftermath on Jewish identity continues to be profound and transformative. Journalist and author Franklin Foer referred to the period prior to October 7th as “The Golden Age of North American Judaism”, an unprecedented period of safety and prosperity for North American Jews. Post October 7th a host of long-standing assumptions and illusions were shattered. Faced with antisemitism on the right and the left at levels and intensity not seen on our lifetime. Israel under physical and moral attack from existential threats and internal conflict within the Jewish people, we find ourselves in a “us versus them” and “us versus us” moment. This experience in addition to prompting a rise in attacks on Jews has also triggered a long-dormant sense of global Jewish peoplehood. What does all this mean for us, our children and the future of the Jewish People in the 21st century?
The Bones of Joseph and Our Unfinished Redemption
By Rabbi Dan Moskovitz
The Times of Israel February 22, 2025
Yesterday, my wife and I celebrated a milestone—our 20th wedding anniversary. It was a moment of deep gratitude, not just for the years we’ve shared but for the simple, profound joy of having all our children home.
Our oldest is on break from University, our two other children both had evenings free from their own obligations and I didn’t have any meetings. We had dinner, watched the hockey game (we live in Canada) and forced our kids to watch a slide show that my wife made to document 20 years of marriage.
There is something about that feeling—a house filled, a table complete—that settles the soul.
I think every parent knows this truth instinctively: you’re never really at peace until all your children are home.
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