Partner Blogs

Purim is the one day of the year I feel empowered in my community. The rest of the year, services ...

A few days a week, I am in the car at 6:00 in the morning– not my usual commute time! ...

“I have a son with special needs. I would love to feel like there would be a place for him ...

The very first person I came out to as a lesbian just introduced himself as a proud transman for the ...

I’m a city girl from North America, used to big city Judaism. I have grown up and worked in cities ...

One of the things I love getting to do since relocating to Jackson, Mississippi, is teach in our congregation’s Sunday ...

It was a sunny winter day in Boca Raton, Florida. My mother and I approached the home where local history ...

Travel in your mind to the top of our atmosphere, where Earth’s envelope of life-giving oxygen and nitrogen blends into the cold vacuum of ...

At the end of last week, Ha’aretz published an important article by Debra Nussbaum Cohen, highlighting a number of enterprising ...

If you had to pick one figure from Black history who inspires you, who would it be? An unfair question ...

A recent line of inquiry has led me down a research rabbit hole — a tunnel falling straight into the ...

Inclusion cultivates a warm, safe, judgment-free zone. Children, who ordinarily may not be friends, embrace each other in friendship and ...

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — we are the capital city of the Commonwealth. No, Pennsylvania’s capital is not in Philadelphia. Several years ago ...

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.  Talent will not; Genius will not; Education will not; Persistence and ...

This February, for the first time ever, the ISJL is hosting a reunion of all of the alumni of our Education ...