Partner Blogs

By 2nd year Education Fellow Rachel Blume.It’s the height of the fall season. Football is in full swing, Barack Obama ...

“Are you a professor?” asked the woman sitting next to me on the plane from Israel to New York. She’d ...

“Justice, Justice shall you pursue,” exhorts Deuteronomy. Today, we woke up in a more just nation, as the four states ...

For historians, writing biography presents a number of challenges. One of the more important comes from scholars who tend to ...

It’s not over until…When the Simpsons go to see Carmen at the Springfield Opera House Homer asked Bart when the ...

My Dad and I never watched the Superbowl together. Nor the NBA championships, the World Cup, or the World Series. In ...

When I tell people about Jewish families in the small towns I’ve visited, they often ask, “How did they get ...

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...

Soon after learning my late grandmother’s family lived in Nachlaot, I accepted an invitation for Shabbat dinner from sweet friends, Mottle ...

Creating inclusive Jewish spaces is a great goal — but how do you do it? While the answer is likely ...

The recent reports of women being dragged from the Kotel — the Western Wall — while Torah scrolls were ripped ...

In the South, we’re pretty familiar with hurricanes. Katrina, Isaac, Camille … we’re used to pretty regular encounters with powerful ...

At about 3:30 pm on Monday, our house in White Plains, New York lost TV and Internet service. We still ...

If there is one consistent theme in the ongoing discoveries of my family history it is meaningful coincidence. Some people ...

We hear a lot about “interfaith” and “outreach” programming. In fact, I spend a lot of my time promoting it. ...