STEPPING INTO A SPIRITUAL REALITY—Yom Kippur is the peak of the High Holy Day season, says Rabbi Michael Barclay of Temple Ner Simcha, a ...

God’s love is so overwhelming, so awesome. If we can just for a moment realize at a deep emotional level that every aspect of life has ...

For Rabbi Michael Barclay, a leap of faith and a high-stakes gamble are one in the same. As the Jewish High Holy Days approach, the ....

In a recent two-week period, I received more than a dozen calls from people who “had to speak with the rabbi.” Each caller was shul ....

Why don’t we always get what we want from God, and why does God even allow people to be in pain? Last week, we observed Tisha b’Av, ....

Temple Ner Simcha, in Westlake Village, took an even bolder step last year, going to a no-dues model, “because it’s the righteous and ...

“In that hour the ministering angels wished to utter the song [of praise] before the Holy One, blessed be He, but He rebuked them, saying: .

“A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read” (Bavli, Berachot 55a).

Typically, I try to keep politics off of the pulpit. I believe the job of clergy is to help people deepen their relationship with God, ....

Temple Ner Simcha, a 3-year-old congregation in Westlake Village with about 100 member families as of May, announced this summer that it ...

As a young child, I always loved the Fourth of July — the fireworks, the meat on the grill, the picnics and everyone seeming so grateful....

For many years, I used to have long talks with Anselmo Valencia, the Chief of the Yaqui Indian Nation, about the similarities and ....

As a Jew in his early 30s,I have had many different experiences of beauty and pain during the Ten Days of Awe, ranging from the first time..