Rabbis Without Borders

This week our Torah portion (Tetzaveh) will open commanding the Israelites to “light lamps that will burn day into night ...

Growing up I had fond respect for the senior rabbi of my congregation. I learned much from him, but I ...

For forty-eight minutes, Father O’Neal was dead.As he crossed over into the next realm, he saw God.Forty-eight hours later, he ...

The terrorist attacks in Paris at Charlie Hebdo and in Copenhagen targeting artist Lars Vilks have reopened conversation about whether ...

Today I was in the Georgia Capitol to speak against a bill entitled  the Georgia Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The battlelines have ...

Jewish life is turned around – so suggests this week’s Torah portion (Terumah) about the first Mishkan (ritual focus of ...

In recent weeks, several of my colleagues both on this blog and elsewhere, have written thoughtful articles on current issues ...

Should the Jews of Europe move? And if so, to Israel or to America?“To the Jews of Europe and to ...

They did not know it was a Jewish cemetery. They did not intend it to be an act of Antisemtism.So ...

 If a chicken and half takes a day and a half to lay an egg and a half, and if an eastbound train ...

It is somewhat of an exaggeration to say that Judaism has a blessing for everything. But only somewhat. After all, ...

Yes, its true. An era is ending.Jon Stewart, who hosted the Daily Show—the “fake news” program on Comedy Central—for the ...