Rabbi Rachel Bearman

Narratives that coalesce around a single person who is the only one who can perform a critical task are ever present and ever popular. I...

Figuring out what I wanted to speak about tonight was a very lengthy and difficult process. I started and abandoned several sermons until...

On Wednesday, the Chief Executive and President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis released the following statement: “The...

A week and a half ago, Georgia’s Governor Brian Kemp signed what was at that point the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the country....

In Parashat Vayishlach, we read of the death of our matriarch, Rachel, who does not survive the birth of her second child, a boy whom she...

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel described Shabbat as a palace in time. In his mind, the hours from sundown to sundown knit together to form...

Over the summer, I received a message from Rabbi Paul Kipnes, who serves a congregation in California. In addition to his pulpit work,...

In tractate Sanhedrin 17b of the Babylonian Talmud, we read: A Torah scholar is not allowed to live in a city that does not have these 10...

Earlier this week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions used a quote from the New Testament to support the brutal separation of children and...

In this week’s Torah portion, Sh’lach L’cha, Moses chose leaders from each tribe to form a company of scouts that would journey into the...