Rabbi Marx's Writings & Sermons

Shabbat Sermons & Messages

Rabbi Marx's Israel at 70 - April 18, 2018

From the Rabbis: Congregational Message in response to Las Vegas Shooting - October 2, 2017

From the Rabbis: Congregational Message in response to San Antonio Shooting - November 6, 2017

Articles

Why We Need Synagogue

Appeared in the Jewish Exponent, February 2020

Struggling with Masculinity

Appeared in the Jewish Exponent, November 2019

Chabon's Criticisms Go Too Far

Appeared in the Jewish Exponent, June 2018

Caring is the Recipy for Redemption

Appeared in the Jewish Exponent, April 2018

Remember That Time Is on Your Side: Choosing Possessions Over Promise Has Consequences

Appeared in the Jewish Exponent, July 2017

Op-Ed: Synagogue Endowments Help To Ensure The Jewish Future

Appeared in the Jewish Exponent, June 2015

And Away We Go: Beth Or Rabbi A Source For Jackie Gleason Play

Appeared in Jewish Exponent, April 2015

Rabbi Marx Invokes His Experience At National Prayer Breakfast 

Appeared in the Jewish Exponent, February 2015

Citizen of the Week

Appeared in Ambler Gazette, March 2010

Video

Social Justice 2020: Rabbi Marx Addresses Bethlehem Baptist Church on Legacy of MLK, Jr., February 2020

High Holy Day Sermons

2020 - High Holy Day Sermons

• Rosh Hashanah - What We Should Do When Drowning In Troubles
• Kol Nidre - Repentance | Ryann Milligan
• Yom Kippur - Everyone Wants to Be a Jew

2019 - High Holy Day Sermons

• Rosh Hashanah - Social Infrastructure
• Kol Nidre - Fritz Haber: Lessons from a Tragedy
• Yom Kippur - The Question Facing the Jewish People

2018 - High Holy Day Sermons

• Rosh Hashanah - Two Types of Jews
• Kol Nidre - The Soul We Cannot Ignore
• Yom Kippur - Forgiveness: Don't Let Me Die While I'm Still Alive

2017 - High Holy Day Sermons

• Kol Nidre - Religious Crossroads 
• Yom Kipper - Gilligan's Island

2016 - High Holy Day Sermons

• Rosh Hashahah - Not In God's Name
• Kol Nidre - Life Knocks You Down
• Yom Kippur - High Cost of Hate

2015 - High Holy Day Sermons

• Rosh Hashanah - Who Do You Trust?
• Kol Nidre - Where Are We Headed?
• Yom Kippur - Living With Anxiety

2014 High Holy Day Sermons

• Rosh Hashanah - Beth Or Is Our Miklat
• Kol Nidre - Feeling Safe In An Unsafe World
• Yom Kippur - There Are Certain Things You Just Don't Say

Archives:

• Judaism: Balancing the Rewards with the Demands (Rosh Hashanah Sermon 2012)
• Cairo Genizah (Erev Rosh Hashanah Sermon 2011)
• Empathy (Rosh Hashanah Sermon 2011)
• Kaddish (Kol Nidre Sermon 2011)
• Betting on Jewish Survival (Yom Kippur, Oct. '05)
• YK2000
• Our Regrets and Our Dreams (Yizkor, Sept., '02)
• Lack of Ethics (Yom Kippur, Sept. '02)
• The Dialect of Truth (Kol Nidre, Sept. '02)
• Or Zarua La'Tzaddik, Ule-yishray lev Simcha (Rosh Hashanah, Sept. '02)
• Auschwitz Or Sinai (Erev Rosh Hashanah, Sept. '02)
• The Book of Life (Kol Nidre, Sept. '01)
• In the Aftermath of the Attack of America (Rosh Hashanah, Sept. '01)
• Five Levels of Pleasure (Yom Kippur, Oct. '00)
• Rating Our Synagogue (Rosh Hashanah, Sept. '00)
• Joseph Lieberman and his Signifcance Today (Rosh Hashanah, Sept. '00)
• The Gold of Exodus (Rosh Hashanah, Sept. '98)
• Three Kinds of Love (Kol Nidre, Sept' 98)
• Messianism (Yom Kippur, Sept. '98)
• The Two Voices of God (Rosh Hashanah, Sept. '97)
• What Should We Do When We're Drowning in Troubles (High Holidays, Sept., '97)
• Secrets (Yom Kippur, Sept. '97)
• Lives in Balance (Rosh Hashanah, '96)
• Teach us to Shudder (Rosh Hashanah, '96)
• The Miracle of the First Day(December 10, 1996)
• We Build in Stone (Yom Kippur, Sept. '93)