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I received a postcard today from a K. Satterfield in Berkeley, California with a picture of an elk cut and ...

“And you shall lay down, and no man shall terrify you….” Whenever I stand up in shul on Shabbat and ...

A new congregation in Savannah, Georgia was looking forward to celebrating the high holidays together for the first time, but ...

With the holiday of Simchat Torah coming up, rabbinical student Becky Silverstein considers how the Jewish calendar lets her renew ...

I’m in the process of relocating to Monroe, Louisiana from Oakland, California. Love is the reason and answer.Most of my ...

A documentary film called “Happy” came out last year, following a considerable amount of research and writing on the newly ...

Tikkun olam has long been a hallmark of Jewish life – and that’s certainly true here in the South.Southern Jewish ...

During the holiday of Sukkot, it’s customary to invite honored guests into our homes and sukkot, the festival huts we ...

One of the strange, but nice, things that come from publishing a book is that people start to take you ...

With Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur just behind us, I thought I would share a little bit about the significance ...

There is much discussion currently about imposing limits on blasphemy. It seems clear that the vast majority of those in ...

Marriage equality is on the ballot in four states this November – Maryland, Washington, Minnesota, and Maine – and t ...

I found my first error in my book in this sentence in the introductory chapter, “Hidden Jew”: “My stepfather [Randy]…knew ...

In advance of Yom Kippur, the entire ISJL staff would like to wish all of our friends and readers a ...

Do people change? As human beings, are we not the sum of our unique genetic make-up and the equally unique ...