Connection

Discovering My Southern Jewish Family… After I Moved Down South

At first blush, I might not seem like a very “Southern” Jewish girl: I grew up in Chicago, after all. ...

A Southern Reunion… In Israel!

Hi there! Remember me? Just last year, I was traveling all over the South serving wonderful communities as an ISJL ...

Georgia: A Southern Jewish Tail

I’m a cat person. I currently have a sweet cat named Ella, who moved down to Mississippi with me last ...

How Do You “Feel” Jewish?

At my congregation in New Orleans, I teach an adult beginner Hebrew class. There are many different types of students ...

Transplants, Replanting, and Reigniting: A Southern Jewish Story of Eternal Light

We use the phrase “transplants” often down here—referring to the “Yankees” who for one reason or another found themselves down South. ...

Why I Loved Those Jewish Mice

The stereotype that “Jews run Hollywood” didn’t come up much when I was a little kid; I doubt it comes up for most kids. ...

Southern & Jewish Hospitality

What began years ago has now become a very common event in our Delta community of Greenwood, Mississippi: we host ...

Connect, and They Will Come

This past Shabbat I hosted the last in the three-part set of gatherings that had been planned, designed and implemented ...

Welcome to Elul: Relationship is the key

The hebrew letters that spell out the name of the Jewish month that we have just entered – Elul – ...

Connecting in a Disaster

At about 3:30 pm on Monday, our house in White Plains, New York lost TV and Internet service. We still ...