Rabbis Without Borders

I experience the world through Jewish history. I came by it honestly, having been a lifelong avid student of Jewish ...

“Yes,” I told the baffled American immigration official, “I was in Belarus for a roots trip.” But this in no ...

While on the surface, the last two posts on this blog from my colleagues, Laura Duhan Kaplan and Joshua Ratner, are about ...

On Sunday I helped organize a rally at our JCC in support of the three teenagers, Naftali Fraenkel, Eyal Yifrach, ...

The prayer book Siddur Eit Ratzon includes a contemporary prayer for Israel. “We affirm that it is possible for Jews ...

A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to staff a table at the Chicago Jewish Festival. It was a ...

One of the most pathetic (in the original sense of evoking pathos) passages in the Talmud is one (Bava Metzia ...

Today, among the many other things you do in your busy life, pray for the safe return of three kidnapped ...

Why is it often so hard to do the right thing? Why doesn’t everyone share our same beliefs? And why ...

I recently spent some time at a gun range in a class that provided an introduction to guns. During my ...

How do you close a synagogue? This is the question I have been confronting for the past few months as ...

We are the “selfie generation.” Don’t let the epithet unsettle you. According to leading sociologists, we are not the first ...