Rabbis Without Borders

A few summers ago, on a trip through Samaria, Israel, a passage in this week’s Torah portion jumped out of ...

If you’ve got nothing to do for the next twelve consecutive days, and don’t need any sleep. starting tonight you ...

These past weeks have brought a recipe of complication and hardship which have sent us reeling in disbelief. From Ebola, ...

There’s a reason you haven’t seen me online much this summer. I went underground to avoid the graphic images of ...

It’s been a week since Robin Williams’ death. My Facebook newsfeed continues to be filled with beautiful tributes to and ...

When I was in my final year of rabbinical school I had a remarkable opportunity to spend a weekend in ...

A chaplain's experience with a Christian patient.

I’ve never cried when a celebrity suddenly dies. It has always seemed like something that just happens. Certainly, it’s a ...

We Jews are great at gathering together in times of crisis, but how often do we get together to celebrate ...

Joshua, Moses’ trusted assistant, has exactly three spoken lines in the Five Books of Moses, a.k.a. the Torah .After the ...

Growing up, my favorite day was the annual Israel day parade in Philadelphia. It was a celebration of belonging and identity. ...

When I was growing up, I used to listen to records of GI Joe or Sci Fi stories that came ...