Rabbi
Changing course in the middle of a pandemic
Before the pandemic, I was preparing for a solo show, a music festival, political organizing. Now, I’m preparing to begin rabbinical school.
Rabbis can serve in German military for the first time in 90 years
“This is a special sign of solidarity and recognition.”
Synagogue jumps to revise slogan slammed as sexist for linking women and whining
Organizers advertised the all-male panel with the tagline “It’s like The View, without all the whining.”
‘Could it be that I happened to have found an underutilized type of ventilator?’
“That he shall live by them, and not that he shall die by them” (Yoma 85b). This is the core principle of pikuach nefesh.
One of our reporters got an email from a rabbi asking for gift cards. Here’s what happened next.
“I just need to get eBay gift card today for some women going through cancer at the hospital.”
‘Rabbi’ gift card scam spurred congregants to spend thousands
“It’s not just the rabbi, it’s also our lay leadership — our congregation president has been impersonated.”
Rabbis are latest clergy targeted in email gift card scam
“As a faith community, we regularly help out individuals who are in need, and sometimes the calls to do so come from the clergy.”
Letter from Alabama: ‘Rabbi, will you take my dog when the Rapture comes?’
It is too easy to think about our different religions as opportunities to compete and to dominate, or as kernels of truth that we must defend.
Rabbis At Bergen-Belsen Used This Ledger To Help Holocaust Survivors Remarry
“It is a document that describes in terse, legal language the phenomenal depth of agony.”
WATCH: Lulav-Wielding 77-Year-Old Rabbi Dragged Away By Police At Climate Protest
“I haven’t tried to involve the synagogue, because if you are asking for permission, you might not get it,” the rabbi said.