Rabbi Jack Riemer

Rabbi Jack Riemer has taught rabbis at sermon seminars throughout North America. His prayers appear in the High Holy Day prayer books of the Conservative and Reform movements. He has published two collections of his favorite sermons: Finding God in Unexpected Places: Wisdom for Everyone from the Jewish Tradition and The Day I Met My Father Isaac at the Supermarket: And Other Encounters with Biblical Tales.

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Torah Study

What Moses Could’ve Learned from Starbucks

Rabbi Jack Riemer

July 2, 2018

Knowing when to let go is a most difficult decisions many of us will face as we age. If we hold on to people or things too long, we risk harm to them and to ourselves.

Raising Secular Jews

Rabbi Jack Riemer

More than two million Jews from Eastern Europe arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1924, the majority of them secular.

Jewish Values

Honoring Your Parents as You Empty Their House

Rabbi Jack Riemer

November 1, 2016

Jews have blessings for almost every occasion. I recommend we recite one before emptying the contents of our parents’ home after they die.

Disaster Relief

We Cannot Pray to You

Rabbi Jack Riemer

We cannot pray to You, O God, to banish war, for You have filled the world with paths to peace, if only we would take them.

Rabbi Jack Riemer

What Moses Could’ve Learned from Starbucks

Raising Secular Jews

Honoring Your Parents as You Empty Their House

We Cannot Pray to You

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