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Articles by The ISJL

All Aboard “The Health Express”!

This update comes to us from AmeriCorps member Gernelle Nelson. For her year of national service, she’s working in the Community ...

From Georgia to Jerusalem in 6 Easy Steps: Sending Prayers to the Western Wall

By ISJL Education Fellow Dan RingThe ISJL Education Curriculum addresses Israel in many ways at various grade levels. The fifth ...

Rachel Stern Talks About “Ban the Bar Mitzvah”

Earlier this week, Jewish parenting website kveller.com, a sister blog here on MyJewishLearning.com, published a blog post by rabbinical student Patrick ...

The ISJL at 13: Resolutions

2013 marks the ISJL’s thirteenth year of existence.Our B’nai Mitzvah Year.*We will go through many of the same things any ...

Happy New Year!

From all of us at the ISJL to all of y’all …

Scenes Around the South

As 2012 draws to a close, we thought we’d share some recent images from our staff’s travels around the South ...

Belles of the Wall

By Education Fellow Amanda WinerI first heard about Women of the Wall as a counselor in training at Eisner Camp ...

“Shalom, Y’all”: An Arkansas Pastor’s Chanukah Wish

This blog originally appeared on Lutheran Confessions, and is re-posted here with permission from the author, Pastor Clint Schnekloth. Although ...

Surely the LORD is Present in This Place

By Education Fellow Benjamin ChaidellThe weekend after Thanksgiving I had the opportunity to speak about my experience as an Education ...

Holiday Happenings

December is upon us – already! That means, of course, ’tis the season. So does Christmas dominate in the South? ...