Rabbis Without Borders

Like many who grew up in a synagogue, I can probably say that I had more opportunities to hang out with the ...

Last week I had a nasty bout of stomach flu. One of those batten down the hatches, no food for ...

If the wrong candidate wins, you’re moving to Canada.Canada: land of safe haven for refugees, universal health care, hate speech laws, ...

Judaism and justice go hand in hand. The Jewish value of tzedakah (charity, from the Hebrew word for “justice”) underscores that ...

Purim is, without question, one of the most outrageous, over-the-top and, some might say, offensive holidays in the Jewish tradition. ...

1. Let children know that healthy debate is good. They can be curious about the opinions of others and ask ...

To be honest, I really struggle in these months before an election. The tsunami of political rhetoric in and of ...

Most people find this section (the final chapters of Exodus and first few chapters of Leviticus) of the Torah pretty ...

I was in college in the early ’90s when I got my first email address. After my roommate came home one ...

As a rabbi, one of the life-cycle processes I accompany people through is the funeral. When a person dies, burying ...

The advent of the new Facebook react buttons, ‘love,’ ‘ha, ha,’ ‘wow,’ ‘sad’ and ‘angry’ has expanded our ability to ...

Last night, as the Republican debate began, a Facebook friend wrote that she was having her own internal debate about ...