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Rabbis Without Borders Hanukkah Gift Guide
Happy Hanukkah, Jewish learners and lovers of Jewish learners! If gift-giving is a part of your Hanukkah tradition, let our ...
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
A number of recent essays have been swimming their way across the blogosphere and seem to have serendipitously swirled together. ...
Typhoon Haiyan and the Importance of Giving
“Shall we make Man in our image?” A favorite rabbinic comment of mine reads Genesis 1:25 as a questions rather ...
The Times They Are Changing
It used to be that most Jews affiliated with a synagogue. My parents’ generation supported their synagogues and the organized ...
Lie If You Must, But Don’t Pretend There Are Not Consequences
“I am not a crook”“Read my lips – no knew taxes”“I did not have sexual relations with that woman”“Saddam Hussein ...
Terror in Afula, Seen from Afar
A numinous dream, last Wednesday:I am on Kibbutz Ein Dor, near the city of Afula in Northern Israel, visiting my ...
What to Get: The Bar or Bat Mitzvah Gift
What gift to get for a Bar or Bat Mitzvah? The challenge with gifts for a life cycle event is ...
Subway sleeper, Rabbi returns cash: when people do the right thing
You may have caught a couple of stories that have been spreading virally over blogs and Face book the last ...
Confronting The Incognito Within Each Of Us
Can a 6’5’’, 310 pound man be bullied? Prior to this week, many of us probably thought such a question ...
Ignore the Surveys: American Jews are Building Collaborative Communities
There has been a tremendous amount of ink spilled and keys pressed discussing the finer details of the Pew Research ...
Does Judaism Ultimately Matter?
Last week, I had a mystical experience.As I took my seat on an airplane flying from Toronto to Vancouver, the ...
The Thanksgiving Nakba
The confluence of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah seems to have brought more than the usual rush of madness to Hanukkah, which ...