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How My Writer’s Workshop Class was Hijacked by a Colleague

This will be my final post for the Rabbis Without Borders blog as I have chosen to focus my time ...

How Do the Rabbis in the Talmud Address Rape?

With the deplorable situation in Santa Clara (the Stanford rape case), there has recently been a media focus on rape. ...

Advice for B’nai Mitzvah

The first time I officiated at a bar mitzvah was when I was the visiting rabbi at a young congregation in ...

When Impostor Syndrome is Good

It’s ordination season. After years of hard work, both theoretical and practical, a number of rabbinic and cantorial students will ...

The Missed Kitniyot Opportunity

Passover 2016 hasn’t even begun, and I’m already frustrated with so much talk about food. Well, this year it’s not ...

What We Are Not Asking When We Talk About Intermarriage

Monday in the JTA, Rabbi Seymour Rosenbloom published an op-ed in which he argued that it was time that Conservative rabbis officiate ...

Why I Co-Officiate Interfaith Marriages

The most popular days to get engaged are Christmas (and I assume Hanukkah!), New Year’s Eve, and Valentine’s Day. That ...

Does A Rabbi Have To Be A Role Model?

It’s over a month now since the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College announced that it would consider intermarried candidates for admission to ...

Black, Female and Almost a Rabbi

When I was 6 years old I told my parents I was going to become a rabbi. I was blessed ...

Small But Proud Jewish Communities

I grew up in a fairly small Jewish community. In the ’80s, Austin, Texas was not the cool mecca it ...

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