Rabbis Without Borders

A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to staff a table at the Chicago Jewish Festival. It was a ...

One of the most pathetic (in the original sense of evoking pathos) passages in the Talmud is one (Bava Metzia ...

Today, among the many other things you do in your busy life, pray for the safe return of three kidnapped ...

Why is it often so hard to do the right thing? Why doesn’t everyone share our same beliefs? And why ...

I recently spent some time at a gun range in a class that provided an introduction to guns. During my ...

How do you close a synagogue? This is the question I have been confronting for the past few months as ...

We are the “selfie generation.” Don’t let the epithet unsettle you. According to leading sociologists, we are not the first ...

Yesterday, during preparations for the graduation ceremony for the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, I caught a glimpse of the glow on the ...

I am an immigrant to the United States. I am the holder of a green card—the documentation that gives me ...

On June 1, tens of thousands of Jews will flock on 5th Avenue to participate in the 50th annual Celebrate ...

I ask this question often, in one form or another. And often, people answer with a cynical “No.”A business leader ...

“Eastern Europe’s outcast, Belarus lies at the edge of the region and seems determined to avoid integration with the rest ...