Rabbis Without Borders
There Are Places I Remember…..
An Orthodox rabbinic colleague Rabbi Zev Farber recently posted on Morethodoxy a piece on the experience of place women have ...
The Supreme Court and the Health Care Act – A Populist Response
I can’t seem to decide, do I want to move America “Forward” or do I “Believe in America”? I’m ...
Rabbis Without Borders: A Vision
Have you been wondering what a Rabbi Without Borders really is? We have produced a video which describes who we ...
On Cinco de Mayo: Jews on the edge of Tequila
Sipping margaritas, doing shots of tequila, listening mariachi music and dancing the hora.Not in a million years would I have ...
Stand in My Cycling Shoes, Please!
A few days ago I was on my way home from work on my bike when a passenger in a ...
Vote for Rabbi…….
Well I did not make it to the Newsweek Rabbi list, or even the My Jewish Learning Real Top Rabbi ...
Hebrew By Design
Before I could read and write in English, I spoke Yiddish. At age 3 I learned the Hebrew alef-bet alongside ...
Puppy Love and College
I recently made my first exploratory college visit with my high school aged son. My initial reaction during the tour ...
The times they are a changing…..Thank God!
When I was in rabbinical school in the mid to late 1990s the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical ...
Anticipating Tiferet she’b’Tiferet
Almost eight years ago, on the evening of April 22nd, after a full day of labor, my husband Rick and ...
Why Bernie Madoff Didn’t Lurk in Dark Alleys
We all know that one of the Ten Commandments is “Don’t steal.” But it’s also hard for us to imagine ...
What’s All the Fuss?
The annual Newsweek/Daily Beast list of America’s fifty top rabbis came out recently. Like many of my colleagues I always ...