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Shul Rabbi Describes How A Stranger Came to His Shul to Capture a Pokémon!

By on July 17, 2016 in In the News

Rabbi Motti Grossbaum is the Rabbi at Chabad  of Stony Brook, New York. He describes in his recent Facebook posting about how a stranger came to his shul  and, well, let’s hear it in his own words. “We get walk-ins at Chabad all the time. Usually it’s someone looking for a place to send their kids to […]

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Sandra Lawson, black lesbian vegan rabbinical student, hopes to redefine where Judaism happens

By on June 21, 2016 in In the News

  PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — Sandra Lawson didn’t expect to perform a public benediction at her local pub in this city’s Roxborough neighborhood. But when her friend Jay, who was entering firefighter training, asked her for a blessing earlier this year, she stood with him in the middle of the room and put her rabbinical school […]

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Rabbi Crosses Communal Line to Work with Controversial Muslim Group

By on June 20, 2016 in In the News

Facebook/ Foundation for Ethnic Understanding Muslims Are Speaking Out campaign by the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding By Josefin Dolsten Prominent rabbi Marc Schneier has started working with a Muslim advocacy group that has been off-limits to major Jewish groups due to its alleged ties to Hamas and anti-Israel views. “I think it’s time for the […]

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