Rabbis Without Borders

February is the shortest month of the year, yet to me it always feels like the longest. There is something ...

As I write today’s blog entry on Tu Bishvat, I’m sitting in my home office looking at the piles of ...

The tent is a place of safety and care.

The Exodus from Egypt is considered to be the foundational/orienting event for our sacred history. Many commandments are attached to ...

This week has been a heavy one for the Jewish people and an indescribably difficult one for the parents of ...

In the past six months, I have attended three “black hat” weddings for my two grandnieces and one grandnephew. My ...

The State of the Jewish Union is… Meh, we’ll see.Education is the beating heart of Judaism. Where the secular world ...

Many Jews have ambivalent feelings about the Occupy Wall Street Movement. Thankfully, the Jewish story in the United States has ...

Generally, our minds have no problem with coming up with lots of ideas — it’s fairly easy for us to ...

Last Shabbat, the guest speaker at my congregation, B’nai Israel in Bridgeport, CT, was Rabbi Andrea Myers, author of a ...

I began making frequent trips to Israel during the second intifada, in August 2001. I became accustomed to the security ...

My daughter sings in the choir at her Jewish high school.  Only her mother can attend the annual concert. I ...