Rabbis Without Borders

Purim is, without question, one of the most outrageous, over-the-top and, some might say, offensive holidays in the Jewish tradition. ...

1. Let children know that healthy debate is good. They can be curious about the opinions of others and ask ...

To be honest, I really struggle in these months before an election. The tsunami of political rhetoric in and of ...

Most people find this section (the final chapters of Exodus and first few chapters of Leviticus) of the Torah pretty ...

I was in college in the early ’90s when I got my first email address. After my roommate came home one ...

As a rabbi, one of the life-cycle processes I accompany people through is the funeral. When a person dies, burying ...

The advent of the new Facebook react buttons, ‘love,’ ‘ha, ha,’ ‘wow,’ ‘sad’ and ‘angry’ has expanded our ability to ...

Last night, as the Republican debate began, a Facebook friend wrote that she was having her own internal debate about ...

On March 2nd, Lord Jonathan Sacks was awarded the 2016 Templeton Prize, which “honors a living person who has made an ...

A couple of years ago, I finally fulfilled one of the dreams of my calling. I preached a Sunday sermon ...

I remember asking, just before the photographer took the picture, “Should we smile, or look serious?” My rabbi quipped, “I ...

I am what you might call an alternative peace activist. The return to the biblical heartland of Israel — Judea and ...