Rabbis Without Borders

Now that the Superbowl is over, we can be sure that our media streams will be flooded with chocolate, diamonds ...

One of the more troubling aspects of Tzedakah (charitable giving) is its tendency to be coercive. I often hear people ...

The most popular days to get engaged are Christmas (and I assume Hanukkah!), New Year’s Eve, and Valentine’s Day. That ...

My two-year-old is now in the stage where my wife and I are torn between encouraging our daughter’s independence and our need ...

I remember when my eldest child(now 11) first learned to say the words, “Thank you.” At first, I was happy ...

There is a famous story in the Talmud that describes several rabbis arguing about whether a fellow’s oven is fit ...

Carolyn is Baptist. She always will be. And she comes to my synagogue regularly.By regularly, I mean she comes to ...

This past year marked the 50th anniversary of one of the most important documents of the 20th century. It has ...

I wasn’t in the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial when Dr. Martin Luther King gave his great oration, and I ...

The Jewish day school I attended for grade school and middle school was affiliated with the Conservative movement of Judaism. ...

“People from the United Church of Canada like to hug,” said my friend B.I filed this random fact away under ...

Jews are a People of the Book; Jews also are a People of the Song. In fear, poverty, war and exile, song packed light and ...