May 2015

It’s Shavuot! It’s Memorial Day weekend! It’s my first week in a new city! In fact, it’s all three of ...

Two years ago at the ISJL Education Conference, there was a wonderful program about diversity and inclusion in our Jewish ...

The American Jewish community is getting older. There is a graying of the Jewish community that is happening across the ...

Bamidbar is my daughter Elena’s bat mitzvah portion. As she was approaching bat mitzvah, fifteen years ago, my father was ...

As we are approach the end of the Counting of the Omer, the 49-day period between Passover and Shavuot, I’m ...

As I wrote in The Torch last fall, I started attending the early morning minyan at my synagogue with the ...

A friend tipped me off to a new reality TV show that was about to begin publicizing its pilot episode. ...

This is the first in a series of four farewell posts from the ISJL’s 2013-2015 Education Fellows, who will all ...

 June is Pride Month, and it’s one of the best opportunities of the year for visibly demonstrating your institution’s commitment ...

It’s getting hard to find role models in sports these days.  Especially in the National Football League, where stars such ...