July 2013

A few weeks ago, I was sitting in the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. They had arranged a viewing of ...

Watch this moving short video about Eisner and Crane Lake Camps’ work educating students about bullying: This was a day ...

At Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ, where I teach, all would-be history majors and minors are required to take (and ...

This was the d’var Torah (discourse) I gave at the Jewish service on Friday night at the Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference, ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about race lately. Many others have, too, in the aftermath of George Zimmerman’s acquittal – ...

When my wife and I speak to groups about our family’s journey to Judaism, inevitably we are asked about our ...

We’ve finally organized all the books we’ve been meaning to read, picnic gear we’ve been meaning to buy, and kitsch ...

This week, we have heard endless blatheration on what Trayvon Martin should have done, whether Zimmerman was legally culpable, whether ...

I recently came across a copy of the June 28 issue of  The Jewish Press . The Jewish Press is an Orthodox ...

Sometimes, being a Jewish organization in the Deep South means being perceived as an “outsider”– outside the major metropolitan areas, ...