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
Tomorrow’s Rabbi Today
What does the synagogue of the future look like? Today synagogue affiliation rates are dropping, as are affiliation rates across ...
Rabbis Without Borders: A Vision
Have you been wondering what a Rabbi Without Borders really is? We have produced a video which describes who we ...
The times they are a changing…..Thank God!
When I was in rabbinical school in the mid to late 1990s the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical ...
Modest Dressing
Modest dressing — what does it mean for a woman? Many religious communities have strict rules about what a woman ...
Israel and Jon Stewart
There are times when Jon Stewart just hits the nail on the head of an issue. Last week he had ...
Ending the Day
Often I find I need some time at the end of the day to reflect on the day, calm my ...
Singing the February Blues
February is the shortest month of the year, yet to me it always feels like the longest. There is something ...
Jews, Hope, and the 99%
Many Jews have ambivalent feelings about the Occupy Wall Street Movement. Thankfully, the Jewish story in the United States has ...
We Shall Overcome Someday!
We shall overcome, we shall overcome, We shall overcome someday; Oh, Deep in my heart, I do believe, We shall ...
Dream Big
Happy New Year Everyone! I have spent a good part of the weekend reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. ...