Rabbis Without Borders

Rabbi Harold Kushner once wrote, “Ask the average person which is more important to him, making money or being devoted ...

Sarah our Matriarch passes from the world in this week’s Torah Portion, Hayei Sarah. It is a good opportunity to ...

I can’t get anywhere without my phone’s GPS (which my wife and I have named “Miriam”). We’re so reliant on it that there ...

Living in a house full of readers, I often find my book—the book that I reserved from the library to ...

To me, “father” and “soldier” are almost antithetical words. My 89-year-old parent was an English professor. He taught Shakespeare. His ...

As a rabbi of an innovative global organization, it is important for me not just to be in my office ...

I have been thinking a lot about Jewish identity recently. How do we define our own connection to Judaism? What ...

We criticize Abraham for not voicing protest of God’s horrific demand that he sacrifice Isaac. Yet, ultimately, Abraham did counter ...

Last night I sat among 850 supporters of Israel and its Israel Defense Forces at the annual Friends of the ...

Today likely is going to be a rough day for liberals. Election prognosticators are predicting that Republicans will win enough ...

“The world’s most contested religious site.”So says the New York Times about the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, claimed as a ...

I wore a white eyelet dress for my 1971 bat mitzvah. My mom bought it at a discount shop on ...