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Articles by The ISJL

The Forward Features RJM!

This week, The Jewish Daily Forward featured our very own Rachel Jarman Myers in a piece about her work sharing ...

My Southern Jewish Grandma

Today’s tale of Southern Jewish family, history, and a meaningful road trip comes to us from our summer history intern, ...

My Congregation is Amazing!

Today’s post is from Education Fellow Elaine Barenblat. As a young girl, I was very involved in my home congregation, ...

What’s In A (Jewish) Name?

This is another post from one of our terrific summer interns, Caroline Kahlenberg, who completed this piece for us as ...

My Summer in Mississippi: A New Yorker Reflects

This blog is written by Sam Gardner, who just finished his summer internship in the ISJL’s history department. The Neshoba ...

Operation Understanding

Every summer, the ISJL office is privileged to be one of the stops on the journey of teens participating in ...

THIS Is Mississippi

This post is written by Education Fellow Allison Poirier. I live in Mississippi now, but I remain a very proud native ...

Gorillas, Bananas, Jewish Education

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

Sounding the Shofar in Hinds County, Mississippi

One of the greatest things about the “Southern Jewish Experience” is getting not only to have Southern Jewish experiences, but ...