Rabbis Without Borders
What Makes a Home a Home?
What’s the purpose of having a home? While that question might seem obvious, in fact, it raises some fascinating questions about ...
Bridgegate vs. God
Bridgegate.The story broke two weeks ago, and updates are still front-page news.Allegedly, New Jersey Governor Christie’s leadership team closed lanes ...
Social Justice and Shared Society
It was some 30 years ago that President Reagan signed into law and established a new federal holiday: The Reverend ...
The Fourth New Year
Tu Bishvat, which begins tonight, is the fourth new year of the Jewish calendar. Beginning as a tax holiday for ...
If Israel Boycotted the Winter Olympics
If Israel boycotted the Winter Olympic in Sochi, Russia next month would anyone really care? The games would go on ...
Home
Where is home? Is it where you live, even if it is temporary? Is it where you grew up? Is ...
My Children Won’t be Jews Like Me
I’ve done everything “right”: given my children Jewish education, sent them to Jewish camps, spent time with them in Israel ...
Jews and Tattoos: Navigating a new landscape
Once a month at our family Shabbat service we ask families to submit questions in advance in what, in lieu ...
Seeking Shelter From The Cold
Much of the Eastern and Midwestern U.S. is ensconced in a ferocious cold spell today and tomorrow. Known as the ...
Religion and Politics: Already Mixed
It’s Israel week on the Rabbis Without Borders blog. My colleagues Ben Greenberg and Alana Suskin discussed debates among university ...
A Values-Based Community: Open Hillel and Community Discourse
In a recent post my fellow Rabbis Without Borders colleague, Alana Suskin, argues on behalf of those advocating an “Open ...
Why Ursula LeGuin Would Support Swarthmore’s Open Hillel
For other perspectives on this debate, read Rabbi Ben Greenberg’s post here and Rabbi Tsafi Lev’s post here.In her series about ...