Rabbis Without Borders

About me: I’m a judicial officer. I’ve served on presidential and gubernatorial campaigns, and as counsel to my state Senate. I earned one ...

“There is a time to be silent and a time to speak.” So says the author of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) in a ...

Tisha B’Av (Aug. 5th), which commemorates the destruction of the Temple also marks the seven week countdown to Rosh Hashanah. ...

In the past week the rabbis witting on this blog have commented on several current controversial issues, Christian anti-Semitism, US ...

The world is in chaos. An airplane with more than 300 people shot down over Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of ...

Is anti-Semitism like pornography? Do we know it when we see it? Absurd on the one hand, this analogy helps ...

“We are not a country that should turn children away and send them back to certain death,” -Maryland Governor, Martin ...

As of yesterday, Monday July 28th, we Jews have begun “The Nine Days.”You may not know what I’m talking about, ...

A week after coming home from a month in Israel, my soul remains immersed there. The tension in Israel, charged ...

My husband does not do birthdays. When I first met him over 20 years ago, this truly puzzled me. Birthdays ...

Jon Stewart, in his July 21 episode of The Daily Show, viscerally demonstrated what many of us, I am sure, ...

Ruth Abusch-Magder Rabbi Ruth Abusch-Magder, PhD. is the Rabbi-in-Residence at Be’chol Lashon and the editor of the blog Tzeh U’llimad. ...