Rabbis Without Borders

We often flow unaware from one moment on the calendar to the next. There are too many times where we ...

A few weeks before I began rabbinical school, I took a vacation and went to visit my in-laws where they ...

It is very hard after the seder to get excited about the last days of Passover. Seven/eight days of eating ...

We had reached one of those loaded moments in our family Passover seder where all my acumen as a parent, ...

Every year I get a call from my mother, “Remind me again, do we eat peanuts on Passover?”This question should ...

Is it mere coincidence that the Jewish festival of Passover, beginning this Friday eve, April 6th, falls in the early ...

I was recently in an awkward social situation.   My husband and I were invited to dinner at the home of ...

This past week in synagogues throughout the world we rolled the Torah scroll forward and began reading from the Book ...

I have been an active participant in a group of Muslims, Christians and Jews that meets two to three times ...

I prepared the bimah with two kiddush cups, a bottle of kosher wine and a glass wrapped in a white ...

Modest dressing — what does it mean for a woman? Many religious communities have strict rules about what a woman ...

At the beginning of the night of the 14th of Nisan (the evening before Passover), check for chametz (leavened products) ...