Rabbis Without Borders

The majesty and transcendence of the High Holidays are behind us. Rosh Hashanah with its coronation of God and Yom ...

At the end of the Day of Atonement we petition: “Breathe into me of Your spirit, and I will live ...

On Sukkot, it’s customary to read Chapter 14 from the prophet Zechariah.Have you read it? I mean, really read it?If ...

It’s the great communal experience of the Jewish people. We fill halls and sanctuaries and homes in eager anticipation. Some ...

That’s not something you hear all the time, especially on the day leading into Yom Kippur, perhaps the most G*d ...

Yom Kippur conjures solemnity and foreboding for many Jews. Ritual fasting, abstinence, penitence, and rehearsing for death evolved as core ...

“Ever tried, ever failed,” Samuel Beckett once wrote. “No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. “  (in  Still Writing: ...

A while back I suggested a unique way of doing the chesbon nefesh (soul’s accounting) we are expected to do ...

“May you be Written in the Book of Life” is such a nice phrase to utter at this time of ...

A minor cultural kerfuffle flared up recently about airline seats and the question of whether to recline or not.On a ...

I wasn’t at The People’s Climate March in New York on Sunday. I wanted to be, but I was, instead, ...

My mother was born in Germany in 1939. She grew up there, emigrating to the United States in 1968, after ...