Jack Riemer

Rabbi Jack Riemer is the author of Finding God in Unexpected Places and The Day I Met God in the Parking Lot of the Supermarket.

Review of the New 5-Volume Steinsaltz Collection

Jack Riemer

A review of the New 5-Volume Steinsaltz Collection: A Concise Guide to the Torah, A Concise Guide to Halakhah, A Concise Guide to Mahshavah, A Concise Guide to the Sages THE SAGES, and A Reference Guide to the Talmud.

Jewish End-of-Life Care in a Virtual Age: Our Tradition Reimagined

Jack Riemer

The pandemic has changed every aspect of our lives, even the way we become ill and the way we die. We used to lie in the hospital surrounded by our family and friends. Now no one is allowed to be with us for fear of contagion. We used to be

A Home Dismantled with Devotion

Jack Riemer

Jews have blessings for almost every occasion. We have a blessing for seeing the ocean, for sighting a rainbow, for tasting fruit, for drinking water, for putting on a new garment….But with all due respect for the traditional blessings, I believe that new blessings ought to be created for our

Death and Mourning