Service

Why I Want To Serve As A Rabbi… For The Military

When you enter rabbinical school, you get used to a couple of questions. Chief among them: What made you decide ...

Throwback Thursday: Texas for the Holidays

After the end of my two-year term as an ISJL Education Fellow, I moved back to Massachusetts to begin rabbinical ...

A Bigger View of Service

I listened to a recent episode of the NPR show  On Being  (formerly Speaking of Faith) called “The Calling of ...

I Am No Soldier: Do We Have An Obligation To Serve?

To me, “father” and “soldier” are almost antithetical words. My 89-year-old parent was an English professor. He taught Shakespeare. His ...

Obligation, Faith, and Service After the Storm

I had been out of town for a few days. When I returned to the ISJL office in Jackson, I ...