RABBI SARA ZOBER

X-posted on Bluesky and Facebook in slightly different formats. I am making this statement as a rabbi and moral leader. My heart is...

Dear Rabbi Hoffman, Moreinu v’Rabbeinu, I read your Open Letter with dismay and confusion. When you said that the “doom and gloom about...

I‘m afraid we’ve reached the end of what we always knew to be true. The Jewish community in America has faced a distinct turnabout in...

This was my sermon this weekend on Parashat Kedoshim. Content warning: Infant loss, abortion I’d like to tell you a story I heard this...

This is installment 2 of a series I'm going to do about boundaries in the rabbinate. Over the last few years in my wonderful job, I've...

This is installment 1 of a series I'm going to do about boundaries in the rabbinate. Over the last few years in my wonderful job, I've...

I was inspired by this manifesto, which is a riff off of the Declaration of Independence, but I felt that their translation gave Trump...

People love asking the question "What is the one change in the last 100 years that you believe will change Judaism the most?" Usually...

As I've been winding down and getting ready for Shabbat, I realized something. This week, for the first time in a very, very long time...

Yeah, I said it. Well before the pandemic, as early as 2006, we began to see rabbis burning out in greater numbers than before. In 2010,...

Note: For the purposes of this article, a "small community" is a community of less than 400 membership units with no more than 2...

This morning, I spoke on a great panel for Jewish Professionals offered by My Jewish Learning. I was one of four panelists, including my...

Spoiler alert: nope. I really just wanted an excuse to post this fabulous article from a few years ago by Tasha Kaminsky, "What We Talk...

I attended a talk by an amazing speaker today, and I need to get something off my chest after it. Dear Rabbis, Clergy, and Faith Leaders...

Let's face it - lots of us just don't feel comfortable leading stuff ourselves. We love when someone else leads, but ugh. Us? Really? For...

There is something about Fridays, about Erev Shabbat, that hits me each week. Most Fridays are similar - in the office by 9, finalize our...

Synagogues have a problem - a major one. It's one that has been heightened by this past pandemic year, and that is the problem of doors....

This is the second post in my Google Spreadsheets Service Outline series. Please make sure that you've read the first post first (Service...

Technology didn't used to be so hard. Yes, tech is wonderful when it works, but one thing I've realized is that for every implementation...

Every week, we do (pretty much) the same thing. Kab Shab is pretty much always Kab Shab, and we used to make these outlines each week...