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Shades of Privilege and Deprivation
People would often underestimate me if they knew that my parents hadn’t taken good care of me, so I used to be ...
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 ...
How Many Unread Books Do You Own?
There are definitely times when I feel like I am single-handedly keeping Barnes and Noble in business. It was very ...
Academic Freedom Is Wasted on Academics
Sometimes when I’m congratulated for writing well, the praise comes with a sense of theft, as if someone like me ...
Queer Clergy in Action: Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum
20 years of inspiring and provoking Welcome to our third installment of “Queer Clergy in Action,” spotlighting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and ...
“An enduring monument to the Enterprise and Liberality of Our Israelitish Citizens”: A Beautiful Kentucky Synagogue
Recently, I have started my research into the Jewish communities of Kentucky for our Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities. A ...
Find room for God? Or finding God in the room?
On Christmas morning, I’m reviewing the news online and I catch the Huffington Post’s summary of the Pope’s Christmas Eve ...
There Is No Place Like Home
I couldn’t stop thinking about the opening scene from the Wizard of Oz –where the house spins wildly in the ...
Finding Meaning In Life After The Mayan Apocalypse
If you are reading this after Friday, December 21, 2012, it means you survived the Mayan Apocalypse!! Congratulations!!For those who ...
Parashat Vayechi: Uncovering Joseph’s Bones
Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...
Is There a Jewish Literary Renaissance?
I hear repeatedly that Jewish literature is undergoing a renaissance. The statement puzzles me.I can’t think of a period over ...
Did Jews Invent the Emoticon?
Every week, I am blessed to work with students all across the South as each prepares for his or her ...
A Jewish Thanksgiving in Avalon
Every Thanksgiving I think of the Thanksgiving scene in the 1990 film Avalon, one of Barry Levinson’s semi-autobiographical Baltimore films. Avalon tells a ...
Belles of the Wall
By Education Fellow Amanda WinerI first heard about Women of the Wall as a counselor in training at Eisner Camp ...