Rabbis Without Borders

“Are we there yet?!!!” I recall saying this as a child, later enduring it from my kids. With this call ...

On January 11, 2015, I received rabbinic smicha (ordination) from ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal. Six years of academic study, ...

“It’s now up to us to choose who we want to be over the next 15 years, and for decades to ...

Every January I reflect on the lessons of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and his good friend Dr. Martin Luther King, ...

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its ...

Long ago, legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan sang in his gravelly tones,  that “the times, they are a-changing.” He was a truth teller ...

The recent Sony hacking scandal raised an uproar about the movie The Interview with Seth Rogen and James Franco. But ...

On January 4, my family and I were privileged to attend the final Broadway performance of the revival of Pippin ...

On a single day last week, we were stunned by news of the Charlie Helbo attack in Paris and a bomb ...

There are 54 discreet portions, parshiyot in the Torah.  If we regard them as chapters in a greater whole each ...

Parshat Shmot which we read this week contains one of the most bizarre incidents in all of the Torah. By ...

A few days ago, David Brooks wrote an article entitled “The Problem of Meaning.” In our society today, and especially in ...