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A New Play on Heschel

Eboo Patel | Posted 06.18.2013 | Religion
Eboo Patel

Like all important works of art, Greer's play leads with story, aspires to beauty, and avoids didactic lessons. This is a work about history and faith, about how maddeningly long it takes for religious traditions to change, and about how inspiring it is that they do so at all.

Attitude Is Everything

Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben, Ph.D. | Posted 06.17.2013 | GPS for the Soul
Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben, Ph.D.

Every one of us has the exact same power within to transform our lives at any moment. Each of us has available every single day the exact same magic formula.

Reviving our City

Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin | Posted 06.14.2013 | New York
Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin

When Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast in the fall, faith leaders rose to the challenge of attempting to provide basic needs -- not only for our own congregants but for the greater community as well.

Black to the Future: American Apparel Gets Biblical

Rabbi Simcha Weinstein | Posted 06.13.2013 | Style
Rabbi Simcha Weinstein

Recently, Dov Charney's American Apparel introduced a "kewl" new addition: A nail polish collection free of formaldehyde -- but clearly not free of the company's signature chutzpah: The color? Black. The name? "Hassid."

Why Did I Become A Rabbi?

Rabbi Evan Moffic | Posted 06.09.2013 | Religion
Rabbi Evan Moffic

American Jews have the highest proportion of college-educated adults in America. The assumption of many parents is that their child will enter the legal, financial or medical profession. Entering the clergy deviates from this pattern. A rabbi is simply not a popular job for American Jewish boy.

A Rabbi on the Economy & The Great Gatsby

Rabbi Gil Steinlauf | Posted 06.03.2013 | Books
Rabbi Gil Steinlauf

I have long appreciated Fitzgerald's novel as a commentary on the limits of the American Dream that we all hold sacred. Dreams and fantasies, the pursuit of wealth and fame and success--these vanities have been lifted to the highest levels of respect and hope and yearning over the past century.

It Is What's Inside That Counts

Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin | Posted 05.22.2013 | Women
Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin

My community looks to the rabbi as the one who embodies Torah and shares it with them. They don't really care much about the shape or gender of the person who transmits it and teaches it.

Cyclists And Faith Find A Common Cadence

Win Bassett | Posted 05.20.2013 | Religion
Win Bassett

Regardless of creed, crank, and even creatine in some cases, it's not uncommon to find people mixing religion and riding and subsequently discovering a unique spiritual and physical reciprocity.

What We Talk About When We Talk About AIDS

Andrew Miller | Posted 04.23.2013 | Gay Voices
Andrew Miller

In med school, future physicians are trained to look for the prosaic horse -- not the exotic zebra -- when making diagnoses. So I've been told, variously, that I'm a migraineur, a hypochondriac, a schizophrenic. But I'm none of those: I'm a zebra.

Retirement: An Opportunity to Fall in Love Again

Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin | Posted 01.05.2013 | Fifty
Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin

You've dreamed for years of finally retiring and enjoying the rest of your life with your spouse. Little did you know at the time that your relationship would experience friction that you could have never imagined.

Hurricane Sandy Is 'Divine Justice' For New York's Gay Marriage Law, Rabbi Claims (UPDATE)

Posted 11.05.2012 | Gay Voices

UPDATE: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has denounced Rabbi Noson Leiter's claims and called for an apology in an email statement: "The comments made b...

God As Ordering Force Of The Universe

Rabbi Joshua Stanton | Posted 11.09.2012 | Religion
Rabbi Joshua Stanton

How and why would God speak to me personally when there might be infinite other creatures on infinite numbers of other planets likewise seeking connection to the Divine?

Jerusalem Woman Puts Baby At Risk To Uphold Vow Of Silence

The Huffington Post | Samreen Hooda | Posted 06.28.2012 | Religion

After giving birth alone in her home, a Jerusalem Haredi woman hid her baby under her dress with the umbilical cord still attached, hid the placenta i...

Prayer On Becoming A Rabbi

Ari Hart | Posted 08.08.2012 | Religion
Ari Hart

Keep me honest. Don't let me fall into the temptation of distancing myself from the people I serve and the people I love. Guard me from trials I cannot pass. Push me towards the ones that I can.

Remembering The Past, Building The Future

Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet | Posted 07.16.2012 | Religion
Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet

We wandered through this concentration camp in the blazing sun. It was uncharacteristically hot for this time of year. It somehow didn't seem right.

Rabbi Busted In Massive Illegal Cigarette Scheme

Posted 02.29.2012 | New York

A Brooklyn rabbi could face up to 15 years in prison after being busted for selling illegal cigarettes. Rabbi Meshulam Rothschild is said to have chea...

Michelle Obama's Ancestors: Fraser Robinson

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 04.15.2012 | Celebrity
Megan Smolenyak

It's providential for Michelle's sake that LaVaughn ever met Fraser C. Robinson, Jr. because he would have much preferred to never leave the South.

14 By 14, A Biblical Emissions Mandate: 14 (Percent Reduction) By (20)14

Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb | Posted 04.08.2012 | Religion
Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb

We should let our workers rest from their labors; and the Earth should be allowed to rest, too. Social, spiritual and ecological sustainability intertwine.

References For A Rabbi?

Debra Weiner | Posted 02.14.2012 | Weddings
Debra Weiner

One of the more difficult tasks for us was finding a rabbi who would perform a Saturday afternoon ceremony for a mixed-faith couple.

Decisions, Decisions

Cailin Goldberg-Meehan | Posted 01.16.2012 | Weddings
Cailin Goldberg-Meehan

I am not a girl who lost sleep fantasizing about her hypothetical wedding. But at five years in, I was positively rash. But I am a sucker for ceremony and thought the planning would be fun.

Arkansas Soldier Shooter's Tell-All Letter To FBI

AP | JEANNIE NUSS | Posted 09.28.2011 | Crime

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A man who pleaded guilty to shooting two soldiers outside a military recruiting station in Arkansas said he also shot at the...

Top Three Tips For Hiring A Rabbi For Your Wedding

Rabbi Dan Ain | Posted 09.06.2011 | Religion
Rabbi Dan Ain

With marriage in the State of New York now available to all, this wedding season promises to be an especially busy one. Here are a few suggestions that all couples looking for a rabbi to officiate might want to consider.

Bob Dylan, It Turns Out, Lives in Israel

Bradley Burston | Posted 08.27.2011 | Entertainment
Bradley Burston

Like any true rebbe, certainly like Shlomo Carlebach, Bob Dylan is spectacularly flawed. But like any true rebbe, he has worlds to teach us about ourselves and this life, and we know this much: we are simply not going to get this stuff from anyone else.

On Corn And Marriage: A Rabbi's Reflections From The New York Senate Gallery

Rabbi Andrea Myers | Posted 08.27.2011 | Religion
Rabbi Andrea Myers

I went to Albany on Friday not expecting anything to change. But I got to witness what was a sacred moment. I got to see thoughtfulness and deliberation lead people to change their minds and their votes.

Prayer: An Expression Of The Heart

Scott Perlo | Posted 08.22.2011 | Religion
Scott Perlo

I offer this thought as a guide: whatever your worship, ask yourself, "did my heart express itself today?" If so, you have truly prayed.