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Violence in the Media
Mazel tov to Rabbi Fuchs for his excellent op-ed piece on violence in the media, published in the Hartford Courant on August 12, 2008. Click to read.
Media Violence and the Next Generation: What our children really learn
Rabbi Stephen Fuchs '68, will make a presentation during the Hamilton College Alumni Class Reunions '08, June 5-8, about his campaign against violence in media. Tragic events like the shootings at Columbine, Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University, are, Rabbi Fuchs believes, the direct result of the growing and ever more graphic depictions of violence that children grow up with in television programs, movies, and video games. Click
here to read more.
See the slide show.
To see Rabbi Fuchs in his Face the State interview,
February 2007, click
here.
To see Rabbi Fuchs on WVIT, CT Newsmakers, with
Tom Monahan,
August
2007, click
here.
Read Susan
Campbell's article from the Hartford Courant.
Rabbi Fuchs spoke about his proposal in his High Holy Day Sermons
in 2006 (A Preposterous Proposal) and 2007 (Still Preposterous but Still my Proposal).
Rabbi Fuchs On Israel
Hear Rabbi Fuchs and Rabbi James Rosen on Israel@60 on the radio show, "Best of Valley Shore" on May 14, 2008. It is about 29 min.
Hear Rabbi Fuchs' brilliant defense of Israel on WWUH, University of Hartford, May 12, 2008. It is about 28 min.
To Listen:
Click on this link: Defense of Israel
Click on this link: Israel@60
If you have trouble hearing the recordings, you can also download the files:
Right click on the link.
Click "Save Target As"
Save the file on your computer
Listen to the file with ITunes, Window Media or Real Player
If you are unable to hear the recordings, you can borrow a CD from the Learning Center or come into the Center to hear them.
Sermons (Adobe
Reader Files)
Rabbi Fuchs's Sermons
2008 Annual Report
A Tale of Love and Darkness
A Book Review of the book, A Tale of Love and Darkness, by Amos Oz
May 16, 2008
The First Shaker Shabbat in history!
Read Rabbi Fuchs' sermon about the Shaker religion, its contributions to American culture, and what commonalities the Shaker religion and Judaism share. The sermon is in honor of the publication of From Shaker Lands and Shaker Hands: A Survey of the Industries, a book by congregant and West Hartford resident Dr. M. Stephen Miller, one of the foremost collectors of Shaker ephemera.
High Holy Day Sermons 2007/5768
Enhancing
the Divine Image (Eve of Rosh Hashanah)
Still
Preposterous But Still My Proposal (Rosh Hashanah Morning)
A
Lesson from the Moon (Kol Nidre)
Medical
Corps Depletion (Yizkor Service)
High Holy Day Sermons 2006/5767
Not
Free to Desist (Eve of Rosh Hashanah)
A
Preposterous Proposal (Rosh Hashanah)
Levels
of Teshuvah (Kol Nidre)
It
Really Matters (Yom Kippur)
Other High Holy Day Sermons
A
Covenant Community - Kol
Nidre 5766 (2005)
We
Never Know When - Yom Kippur 5766 (2005)
A
Yom Kippur Carol 5765 (2004)
Returning
to the Paths of Our Lives - Yom Kippur 5764 (2003)
Israel
in Peril - Kol Nidre 5762 (2001)
What
If I Don't Believe in God? - Kol Nidre 5762 (2001)
Other Sermons
Annual
Report to the Congregation (2006)
Jimmy
Carter’s Abominable Book and the Iran Holocaust Is a Hoax
Conference:Yes, They Are Related (December 22, 2006)
The
Legacy of Classical Reform (November 10, 2006)
Remembering
Matthew Shepard
An End
to the Charade
A
Different Approach to Interfaith Marriage -
February 18, 2005
A
Review of "Home to Stay" by Daniel Gordis
The
Legacy of Betty Friedan
Yea
Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow...
Twenty
Five Years as Rabbi Fuchs
What
God Is and What God Is Not
Why
God Chose Abraham South Church August 21, 2005
Pope
Benedict XVI : Preliminary Hopes and Fears
Reflections
on the Ordination of Rabbi Michael Pincus
Our Magnificent Windows (2004)
Our
Holy Days and Festivals (2004)
Torah in the Face of Disaster (Reflections on 9/11/01) (2001)
Should Christians Convert Jews: A Response to Don Finto? (1997)
Torah Commentaries
Esau (2007)
Bereshit (Cain and Abel) (2007)
Vayikra (2005)
Va-etchanan (2007)
Kedoshim (2006)
Vayigash
Articles
Local rabbis tie Tu B’Shevat to environmental consciousness
Jewish Ledger article, January 15, 2008
A
Trip a Son Had to Make 
Jewish
Ledger article, November 6, 2007
Mazel Tov to Rabbi Stephen Fuchs!
On Tuesday,
October 24, 2006, West Hartford Mayor Scott Slifka
presented Rabbi Fuchs with the “Legion of Honor” award
by the Chapel
of Four Chaplains. The Chapel of Four Chaplains is
a national non-profit organization which gives this prestigious
honor to those who exhibit “outstanding, sacrificial
volunteer service to one’s community and fellow
human beings without regard for faith or race.” The
award will recognize Rabbi Fuchs' work in the community
and will acknowledge his Memorial Day Speech at Town
Hall in which he retold the story of the heroism of the
four Chaplains, two Protestant Ministers, a Catholic
Priest and a Rabbi who served on the troop ship Dorchester
which was torpedoed and sunk in the waters of the North
Atlantic by a German submarine on February 3, 1943.
Read
his acceptance speech by clicking here.
