Rabbis Without Borders

Have We Grown Too Big To Succeed?

Affiliation rates are down in suburban Jewish communities across the country. Synagogue structures sit half-empty much of the year. Conservative ...

A professor friend of mine has been thinking about moments of interruption. How do we cope when they intrude upon ...

I’ve never, I have to admit, been a big fan of mikvah. Nearly every month for many years now, I ...

Pope Benedict says that he’ll be stepping down at the end of February. It’s been 600 years since a sitting ...

Well, that was an unexpected weekend! For those of you who do not live in the Northeast, we just got ...

Should rabbis talk about Israel? In years past, Israel was a subject which united people. You could always count on ...

I have a confession to make: I know very little about the African-American experience.There. I’ve said it.Just over fourteen percent ...

There is a real difference between counseling an individual who has experienced a traumatic moment and experiencing a traumatic moment ...

As a rabbi and an activist, I often get called upon to speak at interfaith events of various sorts. Over ...

“Everything is rent.” – Rent, by Jonathan LarsonThis week our Jewish high school put on a production of Rent, a ...

It was January 2007, almost exactly six years ago. I was sitting in my office, reviewing a dense corporate document ...

Every day, I do the New York Times crossword puzzle. It truly is a ritual for me, almost as sacred ...