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For many years the political power of Israel’s Orthodox minority spread as if it would never reach a limit. While ...

I grew up in Texas, like in most of the South, people in Texas greet each other warmly and a ...

Torah teaches that ancient Israelite women refused to donate their jewelry to build the Golden Calf. Instead they donated their ...

Whether you’re hosting your own seder and looking for a new matzah cover, or going to someone else’s and want ...

Many people have asked why I included a biblical map in  The Bronfman Haggadah . Well, for starters, I love ...

A few weeks ago I was asked to provide a blurb for an about-to-be-published collection of short stories, The Best Place ...

Camp and summer romances go hand in hand, and once in a while those early relationships actually go the distance.  ...

As we’ve explored in earlier posts by and about Orthodox Jews who are also LGBTQ (including a round-up of blogs, ...

This week, we have a special “Snapshots from the Southern Jewish Road” collection of pictures to share with you, from ...

We’ve been really inspired by the posts penned by some of the teens and staff who attended the LGBTQ Jewish ...

Jon Adam Ross is a widely acclaimed theater artist, founding company member of Storahtelling and the Northwoods Ramah Theater Company.I ...

T.A.P. (Talk About the Problems), the ISJL’s peer mediation program, trains students to help their peers resolve conflicts peacefully. The peer-led-model ...

The other day my son called just as I was getting ready to lock the front door. He had forgotten ...

When Edgar asked me to illustrate the text of  The Bronfman Haggadah , which at that point he had been ...

One of the great pleasures of writing for me is researching historical events and details that help me understand and ...