Rabbis Without Borders

This week’s Torah portion begins with Moses’s request to enter the Promised Land.Deuteronomy 323. And I pleaded with the Lord ...

Prayer is a very personal and private thing. In fact, to be honest to a fault, let me say that ...

This is real and you are completely unprepared!What? Just the thought strikes panic in my heart. I like to be ...

I’m going to be busy this coming week. I’m heading to Israel, England, Iran, Canada, China and Jamaica. There will ...

Rosh Chodesh Av 5772 – the first day of the new month of Av on July 20, 2012, and here ...

Numbers 30.2. And Moses spoke to the chiefs of the tribes concerning the people of Israel, saying, This is the ...

Is it kosher to listen to Neshama Carlebach in concert? Go to an opera where women are singing solos? Enjoy ...

“The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary.”–Franz Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes.In the up coming, and probably ...

The Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy is everywhere. I saw a woman reading it the subway last week and another ...

A couple of years ago, I attended a young adult challah-baking event here in Austin.  Some of the young women ...

While I certainly use my iPhone to check my e-mail and make calls, far and away, what really drains my ...

This week we heard news from Germany that a regional court ruled that circumcision amounts to bodily harm, even if ...