Rabbis Without Borders

Meet Rabbi Matt Gewirtz

Meet Rabbi Matt Gewirtz, the Senior Rabbi at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in Short Hills, New Jersey, author of the book, ...

How My Writer’s Workshop Class was Hijacked by a Colleague

This will be my final post for the Rabbis Without Borders blog as I have chosen to focus my time ...

Going Beyond Walls with Fellow Clergy at the Kenyon Institute

This summer I went back to college. To be honest, it felt nothing like being on my own college campus ...

Small But Proud Jewish Communities

I grew up in a fairly small Jewish community. In the ’80s, Austin, Texas was not the cool mecca it ...

From Futility to Freedom

The following is an excerpt from my personal Haggadah, a story of my enslavement to a principle and my discovery of the ...

On the Other Side of the Mountain

Having opted to leave the Interstate and take the shortest route, I shouldn’t have been surprised to find myself traveling ...

Abraham is From Mars, Sarah is From Venus

Sarah our Matriarch passes from the world in this week’s Torah Portion, Hayei Sarah. It is a good opportunity to ...

#AmReading

Living in a house full of readers, I often find my book—the book that I reserved from the library to ...

Honest Boundaries Make Good Neighbors

I always forget, in between trips, how stunningly beautiful Israel is. When I return, it is like opening a favorite ...

If We Remove Our Masks, We Have a Chance to Save the World

These past weeks have brought a recipe of complication and hardship which have sent us reeling in disbelief. From Ebola, ...