Rabbis Without Borders

My mother’s birthday coincided with Shavuot this year. She would have been 76 years old, had she not died in ...

A few months ago, even though I’m afraid of heights, I joined the local rock gym. No, I had never ...

 Every once in a while we hear a story about a lottery winner whose fate takes a drastic turn for ...

The next time you are in New York, make sure you go to the Hayden Planetarium. Along with fantastic exhibitions and ...

I felt like I was a character in a movie I was warned not to see. The parent on the ...

We are walking along a busy, suburban street that runs mostly parallel to the highway connecting our town to the ...

It’s Shavuot! It’s Memorial Day weekend! It’s my first week in a new city! In fact, it’s all three of ...

The American Jewish community is getting older. There is a graying of the Jewish community that is happening across the ...

Bamidbar is my daughter Elena’s bat mitzvah portion. As she was approaching bat mitzvah, fifteen years ago, my father was ...

A friend tipped me off to a new reality TV show that was about to begin publicizing its pilot episode. ...

It’s getting hard to find role models in sports these days.  Especially in the National Football League, where stars such ...

“Should we offer the best classes we can, or teach adults to become independent learners of Jewish texts?”So my memory ...