Rabbis Without Borders

The topic of patrilineal descent has been discussed recently by three fellow Rabbis Without Borders. I find myself agreeing with ...

Wow. It has been quite a busy week here at the Rabbis Without Borders blog discussing patrilineal descent and its ...

This past week, two of my Rabbis Without Borders colleagues have shared their perspectives and struggles with the religious identities ...

This week there has been much conversation online and offline on the Jewish status of people of patrilineal Jewish descent. ...

This morning my wife and I drove our youngest daughter to the airport as she left for a year of ...

Two articles posted earlier this week made reference to an individual  who had been born to a Jewish father and ...

I’m just afraid that history will repeat itself. On October 15th, 1965, the first person to be arrested for burning ...

It is one month until Rosh Hashannah, the Jewish New Year. That sentence strikes fear in to the heart of ...

Traditional Jewish thought sees the whole world as a laboratory for learning. On the one hand, everything has value in ...

I’ve been a die-hard Yankees fan ever since I was 8 years old, when my dad took me to my ...

The hebrew letters that spell out the name of the Jewish month that we have just entered – Elul – ...

When news broke last week that Israelis and Palestinians had agreed to a new round of peace talks, how did ...