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When One Ark Closes, Another One Opens

There are 650 miles and 3 states between Fort Mill, South Carolina and Greenwood, Mississippi, but their connection is closer ...

The Presence of the Past

In my Paris neighborhood, I am discovering France’s historic fear of outsiders. Indifference to the fate of those not inside ...

The Command to Forget

Deuteronomy 2419. When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you ...

It Takes a Community: Katrina, Recovery, Resilience

Hurricane Katrina (and the man-made disaster of the levee breaks) struck Louisiana and Mississippi seven years ago today, with devastating ...

Remembering the Camondos

Now that I live part-time in Paris, I explore the city’s complex and sometimes disturbing relationship to toward its Jewish ...

Queer Clergy in Action: Rabbi Steve Greenberg

As someone who is involved in Jewish LGBT work, I am often surprised people tell me that they had no ...

Facing Paris’s Black Marble Plaques

Now that I live part-time in Paris, I explore the city’s complex and sometimes disturbing relationship to toward its Jewish ...

Jewish Republican$

What does the Republican Convention mean for Jews?Not much – for two reasons.First off, the conventions, Republican or Democrat, are ...

Regional Community Building & The Blessing of Skype

Skype. Gchat. iPhone.These are some of my primary tools in my modern Jewish education career.Utilizing technology is important for pretty ...

To Wear is Human, To Live — Divine

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

An Intentional Detour

In my last few blogs, I wrote of my hope that The Promise of Israel can help foster a new ...

Waiting for God

We have entered the Hebrew month of Elul.This is the last Hebrew month before Rosh Hashanah, the New Year. Traditionally, ...

A Report from the Field: Keshet at the Hillel Institute

  Hillel International is the largest Jewish group for college students, with campus presence at over 550 schools in the ...

Kosher McDonalds and Jewish Cowboys

In 1850 two men found themselves standing under a tree near the famous Recoleta Cemetery in the center of Buenos ...

I Am “Southern & Jewish”

My name is Ann Zivitz Kimball, and I’m a proud Southern Jew.Since “Southern & Jewish” is the name of this ...

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