July 2016
Initiative & Self-Direction: “Today Was Epic!”
As part of our summer blog series on 21st Century Skills, we are featuring personal stories from camp alumni and ...
How My Writer’s Workshop Class was Hijacked by a Colleague
This will be my final post for the Rabbis Without Borders blog as I have chosen to focus my time ...
My Southbound Story: Rachel F.
As we prepare to welcome more than a half-dozen new Jewish professionals to Mississippi for internships and fellowships at the ...
What Should Be At the Top of Your Pre-Wedding To-Do List?
There I was. Twenty years old, newly engaged, and feeling like the luckiest girl in the world! I had a ...
Spreading Jewish Music, Comedy, and More – All Across the South!
Summer at the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL) is a busy and exciting time. During the month of June, the ...
A Kavannah on White Privilege
I see the sirens appear in my rearview mirror as if out of nowhere. I quickly scan the road ahead ...
Initiative & Self-Direction: Agents of Change
As part of our summer blog series on 21st Century Skills, we are featuring personal stories from camp alumni and ...
Race in America: It’s Personal
I have a black son.I have a black son and I am his white mama.I have a black son who ...
Is Prayer An Effective Response To Crisis?
So many dead in racial violence in one short, chaotic week. Dear Lord. Dear Lord.Whose heart isn’t breaking?Some people know exactly ...
Sharing My Shabbat Table
One of the most empowering things I have done since living on my own as an Orthodox Jewish “single” is ...