Rabbis Without Borders

This year the first day of Passover fell on Shabbat. Can we find a deeper connection between Shabbat and Passover?Perhaps we ...

Tonight marks the beginning of Passover. Jews ask over the world will gather to celebrate zman cheirutenu, the season of ...

Coming out of Egypt, the Children of Israel crossed the Sea of Reeds (also known as the Red Sea) walking ...

Passover 2016 hasn’t even begun, and I’m already frustrated with so much talk about food. Well, this year it’s not ...

What is the essence of Passover? On the one hand, it seems obvious: Passover is about gathering together with loved ...

For the third year in a row, Elyse Heise, a member of my congregation, Congregation B’nai Shalom in Westborough, Massachusetts, has ...

“Can you hear me now?” In the famous TV advertisement about cellular phone service, it’s what the eyeglass-wearing geek clad in a ...

At this time of year, I have a mission… to save Jews from bad wine. Now, I know that some ...

Commentary on Parshat Metzora: Leviticus 14:1-15:33In biblical times, for the safety of the rest of the community, a person stricken ...

Last week, two different positions on intermarriage were shared by rabbis who write for this blog. Seth Goldstein wrote in ...

I can recall, apparently with terrific inaccuracy, hearing a kindergarten story about an incorrigible feline who poked his nose into ...

Over the next few weeks, the Torah portions we are reading obsess about two terms with which translators struggle mightily. ...