Rabbis Without Borders

Why I Must March

I will be marching in the Women’s March on January 21, 2017 in Washington DC because I must. It is ...

A strange thing happened in the wake of the election, and is intensifying now that the inauguration is next week.People ...

A few nights ago I made a presentation for ‘Noar Shorashim’, the Roots Initiative youth group that brings together high ...

New Year’s resolutions are hard to keep. So in the past I did not bother at all. This year, is ...

I recently read an article in the New York Times about Charles F. Feeney, whom the headline calls the “James Bond ...

Last week, my phone wouldn’t charge. Since it was still under warranty, I got a loaner phone while it was shipped ...

This winter vacation, I slept more than I had in recent memory. Heading to Upstate New York with my wife ...

The morning after: Having arrived at Genesis 18:23 with my 9th graders, it seemed like the only thing to do ...

They say that all rabbis have only one sermon. If you’re lucky you have two, but when you look at the second ...

Eternal light in the ancient Temple symbolized an uninterrupted connection between God and the people. When the Romans desecrated the ...

The holiday of Hanukkah should be a fraught one for American Jews. Most of us know it as a gift-giving holiday, ...

Interfaith marriage is in the Jewish news again — just like it was in 500 BCE, as Jews returned from ...