Rabbi Debra Nesselson
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The Morning After

My mother was born in Poland. She was one of the lucky ones emigrating with her family to the United States before the Holocaust in 1925. They were among the luckiest of the lucky because by 1924 the gates of immigration to the United States, which had welcomed close to 3 million Jews and 35 million others from 1881-1924 were closing. Only 10,000 Jews were permitted entry in 1925.  They came, like the millions before them, in pursuit of the American Dream. They came to be free at last in a country where as our Judaic tradition tells us again and again and again it is only when people are treated with dignity and equal rights that we can become who we are meant to be, to express our humanity more fully, to embody Torah values and always if possible to live our lives in service to God. Why else would we be here? What is the purpose of human life? Is there one? Continue reading.

Unaffiliated Jews 
​need and 
want rabbis, too.

In our world today, where many derive a sense of belonging and community through the internet alone, it is not surprising that the fastest growing group of Jews in America are the unaffiliated. 

Many unaffiliated love being Jewish and simply choose not to belong to a synagogue. It is to those who no longer belong to synagogues to whom I now turn my time and attention.   

                                                                                                   Rabbi Debra Nesselson

"Getting Personal with
​Concierge Rabbis"

 Julie Kemp Pick, Daily North Shore • September 17, 2017 

"Less than one-third of American Jews say they belong to a synagogue...Many rabbis have chosen to leave brick and mortar buildings to provide more personalized, concierge services in people’s homes. Continue reading.
Rabbi Nesselson in the Daily North Shore

"A rabbi without a pulpit for Jews without a shul."

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15 American Rabbis 
You Haven’t Heard Of, 
But Should
 Rabbi Debra Nesselson 
featured in Tablet
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Is religious belief declining or just reshaping itself?

The New York Times, Sunday Review | Opinion section, Sunday, May 16, 2015
Click to read  Thou Shalt Worship None of the Above, by Peter Manseau.

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