Video, Audio, Photos, Writings

NOTE: There are more videos on the restricted portion of the Beth El site for members. 

2025:

• TV news coverage of Tisha B’Av event protesting ICE actions — August 4, 2025
• Dani Moeller’s D’var Torah (February 8, 2025)
• Sanctuary Committee Coffee House (CASA — February 2, 2025)

High Holidays 2025:

• • Rabbi Josh’s Kol Nidre sermon
  • Rabbi’s Yom Kippur sermon
  • Cantor Vera’s Rosh Hashanah sermon 
  • Rabbi Josh’s Rosh Hashanah sermon
  • Rabbi Josh’s Erev Rosh Hashanah sermon

2024:

• Zach Mayer Shabbat Rinah (December 20, 2024)
• The Injustices of the Criminal Legal System, with Stacey Borden, Founder and Director, New Beginnings Reentry Services (November 17, 2024)

High Holidays 2024:

• • Rabbi Josh’s Kol Nidre sermon (October 11, 2024)
  • Cantor Vera’s Rosh Hashanah 2024 d’var (October 4, 2024)
  • Rabbi Josh’s Rosh Hashanah sermon (October 3, 2024)
  • President Jerry Kazin’s Rosh Hashanah address (October 3, 2024) 

For d’vars by gabbais, see “Writings and Talks by Others” below.

• Living through Oct. 7th (June 15, 2024
• Purim Spiel (March 2024)
• HIAS Concert (February 3, 2024)
• HIAS Coffee House (February 4, 2024)

2023:

• Installation of Cantor Vera Broekhuysen (December 9, 2023)
• Is Your Home Someone’s Workplace? Domestic Workers Rights and Your Responsibilities as an Employer (May 4, 2023)

2022:

• Precious Legacies: Our Ritual Objects and Their Stories (May 23, 2022)
• Rob Leikind, Director of American Jewish Committee (June 27, 2022)
• Anita Diamant (May 1, 2022)
• Dr. Len Saxe (February 5, 2022)
• The Ongoing Journey: Rectifying Institutional Racism in the Arts: Janie Cohen, Director of the Fleming Museum of Art in Burlington, VT (January 8, 2022)
• Sharing My Experience as the Rabbi of Brunswick, GA, Home of Ahmaud Arbery: Rabbi Rachael Bregman (January22, 2022)

2021:

• Videos from L’Hitra’ot to Lorel
• Beth El Education Journey

Earlier:

• Habitat for Humanity build in 2017 (Beth El is discussed starting at 1:00)
• Webinar: Greening your home heating and cooling
• Webinar: Greening your home electricity

• High Holidays audio
• Recordings from Cantor Vera Broekhuysen
• Recordings from Cantor Emerita Lorel Zar-Kessler

Rabbi Josh Breindel

• High Holiday sermons:
  • 2026: Yom Kippur (“‘Do You See Visions?‘”), Kol Nidre (“Loving Vulnerability: The Courage to Care“), Rosh Hashanah Day 1 (“Who is Your Tribe?“), Erev Rosh Hashanah (“Just Comply“)
  • 2025: Yom Kippur (“Embracing Tochachah“), Kol Nidre (“Dancing in Community“), Rosh Hashanah Day 1 (“Shattered Hearts“), Erev Rosh Hashanah (“Caring for the Other“)
• Elul Etude for Rosh Hashanah: “Understanding Cats“ (Sept. 23, 2o25)
• “Recalibrating Our Relationships” — Facing Jerusalem while praying is about relationships. While Jewish communities at different points on the globe might face different directions, our hearts are directed to the same spiritual home, and by extension, one another. (Jewish Journal of Greater Boston, Sept. 22, 2025)
• Recognizing the Daily Miracles of Life — During Chanukkah, Rabbi Josh ponders teachings Obi-Wan Kenobi and Abraham Joshua Heschel about the power of shifting one’s perspective to transform the mundane into the miraculous. (Jewish Journal of Greater Boston, Dec. 31, 2024)
  
• Fantasy, Science Fiction and Judaism — Discuss! — A profile of Rabbi Josh, the “Sci-Fi Rabbi” (Jewish Journal of Greater Boston, Nov. 21, 2024)
• Rosh Hashanah 2024 sermon (October 3, 2024)
• Erev Rosh Hashanah sermon (October 2, 2024)
• Bereshit: Hearts Stretched to Breaking — D’var Torah following terrorist attack in Israel
• Rosh Hashanah sermon 2023 (video; sermon starts at 1:25)
• “The Path of Blessing” — during the month of Elul, remembering G-d’s charge to care for the earth (JewishBoston.com, Sept. 13, 2023)
• Rosh Hashanah sermon 2022 (video)
• Yom Kippur sermon 2022 (video)
• Erev Rosh Hashanah sermon 2021
• Rosh Hashanah sermon 2021
• Kol Nidre sermon 2021
• Yom Kippur sermon 2021

• Listen to Cantor Vera’s original songs on SoundCloud 
• Boston 25 News interview with Cantor Vera as part of its coverage of the Tisha B’Av event protesting ICE actions (August 4, 2025)
• Rosh Hashanah d’vars:
  • 2026: “Rest Resistance“
  • 2025: “Speech and Silence“
  • 2024: “Fear Narrows Our Options; Grief Helps Us Choose Life
  • 2023: “Harmony: Consonance Plus Dissonance Equals Wholeness“
• D’var Torah by Cantor Vera Broekhuysen on Dec. 7, 2024 after traveling to Washington, D.C. for the “Freedom to Be Ourselves” rally for trans rights

High Holidays 2024 — gabbai d’vars:

• Larry Haydu (Rosh Hashanah)
• Lizza Sandoe (Rosh Hashanah)
• Janet Strassman-Perlmutter (Yom Kippur)
• Pam McArthur (Y0m Kippur)

High Holidays 2023:

• Cantor Vera Broekhuysen — Rosh Hashanah 2023 d’var
• Michelle Feinblum — Rosh Hashanah 2023 President’s Message

• D’var Torah by Dani Moeller in observance of Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion Month (Feb. 8, 2025)

High Holidays 2026 — President’s messages:

• Sarah Green Vaswani — Rosh Hashanah 2025
• Michelle Feinblum — Rosh Hashanah 2023

D’var Torah by Dani Moeller in observance of Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion Month (Feb. 8, 2025) 

High Holidays 2024 — D’vars by gabbais:

• Larry Haydu (Rosh Hashanah)
• Lizza Sandoe (Rosh Hashanah)
• Janet Strassman-Perlmutter (Yom Kippur)
• Pam McArthur (Yom Kippur)