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
The Meaning of Life
Memories can play such tricks on our minds. Last night, I returned to a synagogue where my husband had served ...
Can a Rabbi Marry Two Non-Jews?
“Can a rabbi officiate at a wedding of two non-Jews?” a colleague asked on a on a rabbinic Facebook group ...
Us and Them: We are the Same
Recently a Freshman at Harvard wrote about his first experience at the Harvard Hillel in a op ed to The ...
Welfare is a Jewish Value
On Sunday I read a very moving Op Ed in the New York Times by Larkin Warren entitled, “I Was ...
High Heels and Aching Feet: Politics as Usual
“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.” – ...
Waiting for God
We have entered the Hebrew month of Elul. This is the last Hebrew month before Rosh Hashanah, the New Year. ...
The Media, Guns, and Turbans
It has been a week since the terrible shooting in a Sikh temple in Wisconsin. Life has continued and new ...
This is real and you are completely unprepared!
This is real and you are completely unprepared!What? Just the thought strikes panic in my heart. I like to be ...
Sex, Violence, and, Shades of Grey
The Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy is everywhere. I saw a woman reading it the subway last week and another ...
Having it All
Reading Anne- Marie Slaughter’s article in The Atlantic, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” has caused me to wonder, ...