Rabbis Without Borders

When I was in my final year of rabbinical school I had a remarkable opportunity to spend a weekend in ...

A chaplain's experience with a Christian patient.

I’ve never cried when a celebrity suddenly dies. It has always seemed like something that just happens. Certainly, it’s a ...

We Jews are great at gathering together in times of crisis, but how often do we get together to celebrate ...

Joshua, Moses’ trusted assistant, has exactly three spoken lines in the Five Books of Moses, a.k.a. the Torah .After the ...

Growing up, my favorite day was the annual Israel day parade in Philadelphia. It was a celebration of belonging and identity. ...

When I was growing up, I used to listen to records of GI Joe or Sci Fi stories that came ...

About me: I’m a judicial officer. I’ve served on presidential and gubernatorial campaigns, and as counsel to my state Senate. I earned one ...

“There is a time to be silent and a time to speak.” So says the author of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) in a ...

Tisha B’Av (Aug. 5th), which commemorates the destruction of the Temple also marks the seven week countdown to Rosh Hashanah. ...

In the past week the rabbis witting on this blog have commented on several current controversial issues, Christian anti-Semitism, US ...

The world is in chaos. An airplane with more than 300 people shot down over Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of ...