First Friday - August 5You are invited to First Friday Shabbat. An evening of community, friends, Judaism, inspiration, and delicious food.Looking forward to celebrating with you!RSVP Here7:30 Soulful Shabbat Services8:00 Shabbat DinnerCan’t wait to...

Get your tickets for the party of the year: the White Party - presented by Loewy Law Firm August 25thIn the non-physical world of emotions, ideas, and the soul, many things can overlap in time and space. But a physical world is a place where each thi...

Short email this week - wouldn't want to distract you from the blazing record-breaking heat.This week, instead of a thought, I want to share a story in keeping with my 10,000 Story theory. The theory goes that a nuanced tradition is passed on through...

Sharing a thought by my colleague Rabbi Eli Block of Chabad Legacy West near Dallas: This past Tuesday, NASA released five images from the early work of the James Webb Space Telescope. The most striking image was of the Carina nebula, a vast, swirlin...

The Ultimate Arms RaceNations competing with each other to develop deadlier methods to destroy people and property is a nightmare for humanity. Often when peace seeking nations engage in these arms races it is primarily to gain supremacy at the negot...

Dear ,This Shabbat, July 2, marks the 28th anniversary of the passing of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, on the third day of the Jewish month of Tammuz.The Rebbe's unconditional love to people knew no bounds. To the...

This Shabbos message was written by AI: (no this isn't a joke)Ladies and gentlemen, I want to talk to you today about the spies. In the Torah, the spies are sent into the Promised Land to see if it is a good place for the Israelites to live. But when...

Is your AI Jewish?From Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone of Tech Tribe:From DALL·E 2’s menagerie of marvels to the excitement around LaMDA AI and the debate of its quasi-spiritual sentience, there’s a chance to look at the Jewish nature of bots and AIs and...

Saturday, June18 at 9:30pmCome dress up in 1920 Gatsby Theme Murder Mystery Night!For more information and to RSVP send an email to: mussy@yjpaustin.orgI hope to see you there!Mussyps. save the date for the Mega Challah Bake

The weekly email was sent without the full thought. I included it here:What we need now is the peace and quiet that comes with not existing.The holiday of Shavuot marks the giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai. Although that event technically occurred&nb...