Rabbis Without Borders

I have always found it difficult to romanticize the tale of right and might that belongs to the Maccabees.  I ...

No matter how much money each of us donated yesterday on what has come to be known as Giving Tuesday, ...

As the calendar flips to December, nightfall comes ever earlier, and many of us don our winter coats for the ...

Hanukkah is coming. It’s time to tell stories about armed resistance against oppression. Children will read about the five brave ...

On Thanksgiving morning when I entered a large grocery store in Wicker Park, Chicago, I was transported back to a ...

Happy Thanksgiving.Now, let’s get real: Some don’t feel thankful today. We might feel like the turkeys got us down. We might feel burdened ...

Last night I participated in my town of Westborough’s Interfaith Thanksgiving. Our program was entitled ‘Welcoming the Stranger’, recalling that ...

“One great rock show can change the world.” – School of Rock Everyone’s been trying to find their way into ...

Do you want to feel like your life has meaning? Do you want to be connected to other individuals like yourself? Do ...

We read in Pirke Avot, the Ethics of the Sages: “Who is happy?” The answer: “The one who is satisfied ...

I recently began studying a new book with my chevruta (study partner), Musar HaTorah v’aYahadut, written by Rabbi Aharon Shmuel ...

We moved into Shabbat last week with the news of the attacks in Paris on our minds. The multiple coordinated ...