Rabbis Without Borders

Like everyone else I know who is active in the Jewish community, my Facebook page and email inbox have been ...

A lot has been made of the new Pew Study on the Jewish population. I am enjoying reading the various ...

As Rabbi Rachel Gurevitz says, statistics in the Pew Research Center’s survey of American Jewish attitudes and beliefs are wide ...

It’s probably one of the first things that I learned from my time as a social science researcher – the ...

As a synagogue rabbi, I feel as if we have been running a religious marathon for the past month. since. ...

Hoshana Rabbah is kind of a weird day – even for the Jewish calendar. It’s not really a holiday – ...

I recently met a woman who I really liked. We have a lot in common, being  professionally accomplished Jewish women ...

Occasionally, a book about Jewish prayer will tell you that Judaism discourages spontaneous prayer. That magic of Jewish prayer, the ...

“How do I go on?”  I was asked recently at a service following the death of a beautiful woman in ...

Sukkot was never a big deal for me when growing up. Coming so soon after the pomp and circumstance of ...

I admit that I’ve never been particularly hip.Even as a teenager, at best I was probably pretty geeky, and what’s ...

I believe that pulpit rabbis have an obligation to frame issues of the day in a moral lens even when ...