Rabbis Without Borders

Sunday night (October 4, 2015) begins Shemini Atzeret, the last festival in the summer/fall Jewish holiday cycle. For many moderns, ...

From the middle to the end of last week, I was having conversations about Pope Francis’ speeches each and every day ...

Back in biblical times, Israelites would come to the great Temple three times a year, in the fall, and at ...

I grew up in a fairly small Jewish community. In the ’80s, Austin, Texas was not the cool mecca it ...

As a rabbi who is blessed with the humbling privilege of leading her congregation, after the High Holy Days have ...

Sukkot, which begins Sunday, is called by our sages, “The season of our rejoicing.” But why should we rejoice?Just this ...

Dear School Officials,Today is Yom Kippur, the most sacred day of the Jewish calendar. It is the Day of Atonement, ...

White rabbis are talking about race. Over the last few years, sermons about race and racial issues have come to ...

What did you do this Rosh Hashanah? I spent my holiday in synagogue applying the scientific method, snacking on honey-flavored ...

A few years ago, there was a terrific newspaper cartoon from the strip “Non Sequitur” entitled “The Philosophical Showdown.” It showed ...

My dear friend Tom was excited to greet his eldest daughter and new college friends home from college. “So, Erica,” ...

We were two Christian Palestinians, four Muslim Palestinians and six Jewish Israelis. The Christians were from Bethlehem, both veterans of ...