Ben Greenberg
Ben Greenberg received his rabbinic ordination from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School in New York City. He has also completed graduate coursework in both Medieval Jewish History and Public Administration. Rabbi Greenberg has worked in the college campus and in synagogues from Boston to Denver. He is the author of two books and has written numerous articles on topics of Jewish thought, philosophy and contemporary issues. Rabbi Greenberg is married to Dr. Sharon Weiss-Greenberg and together they have two sons.
Articles by Ben Greenberg
What We Need This Tisha B’Av: Respectful Disagreement
The world is in chaos. An airplane with more than 300 people shot down over Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of ...
Should We Care About People Not Like Us?
The context was a class on the gun violence epidemic in Chicago. I had finished the presentation by mentioning some ...
I Am Orthodox: Why Labels Matter
A few weeks ago Elad Nehorai of Pop Chassid posted a provocative piece entitled, “Jews, It’s Time To Abolish The ...
How To Read The Hebrew Bible
A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to staff a table at the Chicago Jewish Festival. It was a ...
Don’t Pray, Communicate! A Book Review of Holistic Prayer
To understand the newest book by Rabbi Avi Weiss one needs to tell a story that appears in the book, ...
Passover Doesn’t End With the Exodus
This Monday night Jews around the world will sit down at their tables and embark on recreating the narrative of ...
The Justice of Passover
In only a few short weeks we will encounter our annual adventure down memory lane as we gather around and ...
Rabbis Don’t Belong on Scorecards
“Nevertheless, we followed the advice from every magazine editor who told us that rankings matter: if you want people to ...
Airing The Dirty Laundry and Jewish Communal News
As someone who has written articles about issues impacting the Jewish community for publications like The Huffington Post, The Denver ...
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 ...