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“Wocka Wocka!”

I’m excited about the new Muppet Movie, and who wouldn’t be given great lines like the following from the trailer:Kermit, ...

A Grandmother’s Secrets

Anna Solomon’s debut novel, The Little Bride, is now available. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book ...

Write, Pray, Swim, Bike, Run

Earlier this week, Karol Neilsen wrote about the inefficiency of writing and how not to quit. Her new memoir, Black Elephants, was ...

The role of music in the healing of Gabrielle Giffords

Yesterday morning, in a weekly class on Jewish mysticism that I teach in the local community, we were concluding our ...

Politicians in the Kitchen

The Awl has an interesting post up about a cookbook called Political Pot Luck: A Collection of Recipes from Men ...

The Rabbi, The Philosopher and Aphrodite

The following exchange between myself and my students was a familiar one throughout my year long fellowship with Rabbis Without ...

Welcome Fellow Noshers!

Yiddish is a difficult language to translate, yet there are endless attempts at expressing these indefinite words that have happily ...

Welcome to the Rabbis Without Borders Blog

Welcome to the Rabbis Without Borders Blog on MyJewishLearning.com! Humm, “Rabbis Without Borders” sounds like “Doctors Without Borders,” so this ...

Pharaoh Was A Nazi

You know how Godwin’s law says that every internet argument eventually breaks down into someone calling someone else Hitler or ...

Prologue: An Introduction

It’s time to brag.For the past year, I’ve gotten to work with some of the biggest names of the literary ...

Marcel Marceau and the University of the Ghetto

Gloria Spielman‘s most recent book, Marcel Marceau: Master of Mime, is now available. She will be blogging here all week ...

Complex Happiness

We are living in a moment of Jewish historic significance, one which embodies the blessing: “Thank you God for helping ...

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