Sermon Archives
We are in the process of uploading all of Rabbi Perkins' Shabbat and High Holiday sermons to this Archive page, and we ask that you be patient during this process. If there is a particular sermon that you need, please e-mail Gil Brodsky, and he will send it to you as soon as he can. Please note that these sermons are stored as pdf files.
SHABBAT AND OTHER SERMONS BY YEAR
These will be uploaded in the future.
2010
• A Great Moral Issue of Our Time - Vayera - October 23, 2010
2006
Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Shabbat Vayehi - January 14, 2006
2004
Martin Luther King Day - January 19, 2004
Reflections on the Death of President Ronald Reagan - Shabbat Sh'lach L'cha - June 12, 2004
2002
The Voice is the Voice of Jacob - A Tribute to Abba Eban - Shabbat Vayishlach - November 23, 2002
HIGH HOLIDAY SERMONS BY YEAR
2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998
2010 - 5771
2009 - 5770
- “Greetings on Erev Rosh Hashanah” — Erev Rosh Hashanah
- “Don’t Worry, Be Happy!” — Rosh Hashanah Day 1
- “Snapshots from an Interfaith Trip to Israel” — Rosh Hashanah Day 2
- “Let’s Start Over, Together, Here, Now” — Kol Nidre
- “Kherpat Ra’av: The Shame of Hunger” — Yom Kippur
2008 - 5769
- “Do You Like Lobster?” — Rosh Hashanah Day 1
- “The Walled Garden” – Rosh Hashanah Day 2
- “Why Are You Here?” — Kol Nidre
- “What Do We Wish For?” — Yom Kippur
2007 - 5768
- “Does Religion Poison Everything? (A Response to God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens)” — Rosh Hashanah Day 1
- “Ascending the Hierarchy of Holiness” – Rosh Hashanah Day 2
- “Compiling a Yom Kippur ‘Life List’” — Kol Nidre
- “Writing Ourselves into the Book of Life” — Yom Kippur
2006 - 5767
- “It’s Not Over” – Rosh Hashanah Day 1
- “Jewish Identity in Wal-Mart Country–and Elsewhere” – Rosh Hashanah Day 2
- “Re-Shaping Our Souls” — Kol Nidre
- “Being Present” — Yom Kippur
2005 - 5766
- “Finding A Place to Pray” – Erev Rosh Hashanah
- “Poverty” – Rosh Hashanah Day 1
- “The Tenth Trial” – Rosh Hashanah Day 2
- “The Art of the Apology” – Kol Nidre
- “Is Jewish Survival Enough?” – Yom Kippur
- “Yizkor, Shmini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah”– Shmini Atzeret Yizkor
2004 - 5765
- “Getting Started” – Erev Rosh Hashanah
- “Who is an Authentic Jew?” – Rosh Hashanah Day 1
- “Israel: The Reality” – Rosh Hashanah Day 2
- “To Tell The Truth” – Kol Nidre
- “Two Kinds of Hillel Sandwich” – Yom Kippur
2003 - 5764
- “Changing (or Re-Charging) our Spiritual Batteries” – Erev Rosh Hashanah
- “Yom Tov and Yom Norah” – Rosh Hashanah Day 1
- “Je me souviens: I Remember Who I Am” – Rosh Hashanah Day 2
- “Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die” – Kol Nidre
- “Be an Important Person” – Yom Kippur
2002 - 5763
- “Blessings for Good and in Vain” – Erev Rosh Hashanah
- “The Tower of Terror” – Rosh Hashanah Day 1
- “Maintaining Hope in Difficult Times” – Rosh Hashanah Day 2
- “Teshuvah—Better Late Than Never” – Kol Nidre
- “Names” – Yom Kippur
2001 - 5762
- “Bearing Unspeakable Loss” – Rosh Hashanah Day 1
- “What is Zionism?” – Rosh Hashanah Day 2
- “Three Ways Our Memories Can Fail Us: And What To Do About It” – Kol Nidre
- “Lessons From the Obituary Page” – Yom Kippur
2000 - 5761
- “Americans or Jews? and Other Questions in the Wake of the Lieberman Nomination” – Rosh Hashanah Day 1
- “The Zionist Dream...and the Reality” – Rosh Hashanah Day 2
- “Taking Time to Smell the Roses” – Kol Nidre
- “Three Hidden Truths: Living With Uncertainty” – Yom Kippur
1999 - 5760
- “Life, The Movie” – Rosh Hashanah Day 1
- “Israel Sermon” – Rosh Hashanah Day 2
- “How Is This Night Different?” – Kol Nidre
- “The Broken Tablets: Living With Loss” – Yom Kippur
1998 - 5759
- “Taking Abraham's Journey” – Rosh Hashanah Day 1
- “Israel: The Sealed Room in Which We're Clustered Together” – Rosh Hashanah Day 2
- “Choices That Matter” – Kol Nidre
- “The Knowable and the Unknowable” – Yom Kippur