Rebecca Sirbu
Rabbi Rebecca W. Sirbu, is the Director of Rabbis Without Borders at CLAL – The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. Rabbi Sirbu directs two rabbinic fellowship programs, teaches seminars to rabbis, rabbinical students, and lay leaders across the country, and coaches individual rabbis in attaining their career goals. She was the founding director of the cutting edge MetroWest Jewish Healing and Healing Center at JCC MetroWest and the Center for Jewish Life at JCC MetroWest in West Orange, NJ. In addition, she is a trained hospital chaplain and speaks and writes on issues of health, healing, spirituality, and Jewish women. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vassar College, she holds a masters degree and ordination from The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Articles by Rebecca Sirbu
“I Represent the Jewish Community.”
“I represent the Jewish community,” is not a statement that can be made today. There is no one “Jewish community.” ...
How A Jew Buys Cowboy Boots in Texas
Last week while I was visiting my hometown of Austin, Texas, I was moved to get a new pair of ...
Understanding Power
Another rabbinic scandal has come to light. Last week The New York Times published an article about Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt ...
Is the Bar Mitzvah Over?
The simple answer, of course, is no. Bar/Bat Mitzvah is one of the most popular Jewish rituals in the United ...
We Must Still Dream!
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its ...
What I Learned from Having Purple Hair
I was hip for a week. For one week, I had a stripe of purple hair mixed in with my ...
Can Anger be a Positive Emotion?
“Do not go gentle in to that Good Night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light”These two verses by ...
Dear Friend, May You Be Written in the Book of Life
“May you be Written in the Book of Life” is such a nice phrase to utter at this time of ...
The Rabbi Said What?!?
In the past week the rabbis witting on this blog have commented on several current controversial issues, Christian anti-Semitism, US ...
YOU Can Bring Peace in the Middle East!
Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 15th is a fast day in Jewish tradition. It is called the 17th of Tammuz, named after ...