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Celebrate, Jewish Texts, JOFA's Torch, Purim, Study
Scribes in a Circumscribed World: From Esther to Me
Purim is the one day of the year I feel empowered in my community. The rest of the year, services ...
Celebrate, Hanukkah, Pray, Rabbis Without Borders
What’s Your Miracle?
Hanukkah is just around the corner. The smell of the freshly cooked latkes. The dreidels spinning on a table next to ...
My Forgotten Favorite
Do you ever pack the kids’ clothes, pack the stack of diapers, pack the toys and the toiletries and the ...
Prioritizing Obligations
The importance of a holistic approach to halacha (Jewish law).
What’s Worse, Fear or Wandering?
Our Israelite ancestors wandered a wilderness of fear, scared to proceed, feeling small, wandering for the rest of their lives rather than moving forward through fear.
Celebrate, Hanukkah, Rabbis Without Borders
It’s Not A Supernatural Miracle
Eternal light in the ancient Temple symbolized an uninterrupted connection between God and the people. When the Romans desecrated the ...
Celebrate, More Holidays, Rabbis Without Borders, Tisha B'Av
Yin in the Yang
We have learned from the Ancient Chinese Tao that there is a spot of Yang in the Yin and a ...
Celebrate, Jewish Thought, Passover, Rabbis Without Borders, Science and Ecology, Seder, Study
The Passover Egg: Symbol of a Weeping Earth
Coming out of Egypt, the Children of Israel crossed the Sea of Reeds (also known as the Red Sea) walking ...
Jewish Texts, Rabbis Without Borders
At the Foot of the Mount
I wasn’t in the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial when Dr. Martin Luther King gave his great oration, and I ...