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Affiliation rates are down in suburban Jewish communities across the country. Synagogue structures sit half-empty much of the year. Conservative ...

Today’s blog comes to us from Michael Goodman at Goodman Writes, another “Southern & Jewish” voice. Reprinted with permission of the ...

Although my novel,  The American Sun & Wind Moving Picture Company , is set in the silent film era—it begins ...

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Rachel Saks has an M.S. in Education and is a Registered Dietitian. She has taught cooking classes, developed and ran Healthy ...

A couple of years ago I decided to lead a group of adult learners in a class on Jewish fiction. The ...

I was working on an activity for the Texas Jewish Immigrant Experience Traveling Trunk when I came across a gem ...

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

Nine months pregnant on the cusp of Purim.

It’s that time of year…chocolates, flowers, jewelry. Sappy advertisements and red and pink store displays. There are reminders everywhere. It’s Valentine’s ...

A professor friend of mine has been thinking about moments of interruption. How do we cope when they intrude upon ...

I’ve never, I have to admit, been a  big fan of mikvah. Nearly every month for many years now,  I ...

Sara Beth Berman is a Nadiv Educator working at URJ Camp Coleman in Cleveland, GA in the summer and The ...

In celebration of the completion of the Kentucky section of our online Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities, we bring you ...

Is it possible to take the ego out of writing? I ask this question because I ask myself why I write, and ...