At NPR, Stina Sieg reports on traveling rabbis trying to help Jews in the rural American West reconnect to their faith. Zalman Refson, a Hasidic rabbinical student headed to Arizona, said, “Meeting people and interacting with them on a very simple level, regardless of Jewish topics, is a very positive thing. And it’s a very positive experience for a person who’s going to enter the people business.” Liberal Jewish congregations sometimes view the roving rabbis as threats for promoting a traditional version of the faith, but the rabbis say that they are only “trying to inspire Jews to be a little more observant.”