Rebecca Sirbu
Rabbi Rebecca W. Sirbu, is the Director of Rabbis Without Borders at CLAL – The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. Rabbi Sirbu directs two rabbinic fellowship programs, teaches seminars to rabbis, rabbinical students, and lay leaders across the country, and coaches individual rabbis in attaining their career goals. She was the founding director of the cutting edge MetroWest Jewish Healing and Healing Center at JCC MetroWest and the Center for Jewish Life at JCC MetroWest in West Orange, NJ. In addition, she is a trained hospital chaplain and speaks and writes on issues of health, healing, spirituality, and Jewish women. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vassar College, she holds a masters degree and ordination from The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Articles by Rebecca Sirbu
Are You Bossy, Pushy, or Executive Leadership Material? Take This Quiz to Find Out!
1. Do you have strong ideas and opinions?a. Yes b. No2. Do you share these ideas with others? a. Yes ...
Infertility Is Not A Disease
Infertility is so difficult to talk about since it is such a personal struggle and everybody experiences it in a ...
Advice for Friends of the Ailing: Just Be Present.
Recently my email inbox has been filled with updates from three friends who are sick and using Caringbridge.com to update ...
Thank You for Sharing Sam
It was one of those nights. I could not sleep at all. Sadness and worries crowded in. I went to ...
Rabbi Composes A New Torah
Imagine the uproar that would happen if a rabbi said that he or she composed a new Torah. The rabbi ...
Rabbis Without Borders Named As Most Innovative Jewish Program
Rabbis Without Borders is thrilled to be listed in the new Slingshot Guide of The Top 50 Most innovative Jewish ...
Have a Little Faith
A lot has been made of the new Pew Study on the Jewish population. I am enjoying reading the various ...
Do I Need to Plan Ahead?
It is one month until Rosh Hashannah, the Jewish New Year. That sentence strikes fear in to the heart of ...
Where does God fit in?
We have to bring more Jews into Jewish Life. We have to keep the Jewish community strong. We have to ...
Ageism in Jewish Life
There is an old joke about the rabbinic search committee who in looking for a rabbi wanted someone who was ...