Rabbis Without Borders
Does A Rabbi Have To Be A Role Model?
It’s over a month now since the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College announced that it would consider intermarried candidates for admission to ...
A Prayer For Paris
On Saturday night, my husband and I went to a local pub to listen to music. Then we came home ...
Human Beings are God’s Menorah
As the month of Kislev has begun our thoughts turn to the upcoming holiday of Hanukkah. If there was ever ...
Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Making Holidays Our Own
When is Hanukkah 2015? Click here to find out!Thanksgiving is coming, and Hanukkah is just around the corner. The holidays ...
Don’t Get Furious, Get Curious
I do a lot of commuting, and one thing that makes that time fly by are courses by The Teaching Company. With ...
Look at Me, Not at Your Device
These are not rude people. The people gathered around the table are my treasured colleagues. I hired most of them. ...
Artistic Vision
The multipurpose room behind the prayer space — social hall behind the sanctuary — is transformed into an art gallery. ...
Fear Goes Both Ways
I hesitated before asking my wife if she wanted to go out to dinner. We would not have to drive ...
When a Zoroastrian and a Jew Walked into a Mikvah
It is like clockwork. You can expect someone to raise the following argument every single time anything new is being ...
The Birth of a Female Orthodox Rabbinate
When I was ordained as a rabbi, a little under two years ago, my husband hosted a lovely party at ...
Going Beyond Walls with Fellow Clergy at the Kenyon Institute
This summer I went back to college. To be honest, it felt nothing like being on my own college campus ...
Is The Jewish Community In America Actually In Crisis?
A month after its publication, the “Statement on Jewish Vitality,” signed by a number of leading Jewish communal figures, has ...