Rabbis Without Borders

On March 2nd, Lord Jonathan Sacks was awarded the 2016 Templeton Prize, which “honors a living person who has made an ...

A couple of years ago, I finally fulfilled one of the dreams of my calling. I preached a Sunday sermon ...

I remember asking, just before the photographer took the picture, “Should we smile, or look serious?” My rabbi quipped, “I ...

I am what you might call an alternative peace activist. The return to the biblical heartland of Israel — Judea and ...

On extending Jewish mourning rituals to non-traditional mourners.

When I was growing up the common wisdom was, if possible, to avoid conversations of religion and politics around the dinner ...

In the last weeks’ Torah readings (Terumah, Tetzaveh and Ki Tissa), our sacred myth has amplified the problem of human longing for ...

A few years ago I was a first-time guest on a news radio show on Detroit’s National Public Radio (NPR) ...

How Jewish is Bernie Sanders? This question rose to the surface after Sanders’ historic victory in the New Hampshire Democratic ...

I’m a city girl from North America, used to big city Judaism. I have grown up and worked in cities ...

Travel in your mind to the top of our atmosphere, where Earth’s envelope of life-giving oxygen and nitrogen blends into the cold vacuum of ...

At the end of last week, Ha’aretz published an important article by Debra Nussbaum Cohen, highlighting a number of enterprising ...