high school

Graduation 2015: A [Jewish] Family Affair

This graduation season, my family is celebrating not one, not two, but three graduations.Our oldest, Alana, graduated from Indiana University. Our middle child, ...

Why Gay-Straight-Alliances Are Needed in Schools

Each April schools across the country observe a Day of Silence, a day dedicated to ending anti-LGBTQ bullying and harassment. While we will be ...

Operation: Understanding – Our History, Our Present

Yesterday, the ISJL hosted students from Operation Understanding, an organization whose mission is to develop a group of young African ...

Out, Orthodox, and In College

Ami wrote this right before he left for college this fall. He bravely chronicled coming out at his Orthodox high school ...

Why I Write

Maybe there are four or five people on earth for whom writing is effortless and never heartbreaking. I don’t know ...