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Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr…on Tu Bishvat

What’s the first Jewish holiday we’ll be welcoming in the secular New Year of 2014 (besides Shabbat, of course)? Tu ...

“Ich bin ein JOFA-nik!”

If I ever had a rabbi, Ruth Calderon would be her. I only ever saw Calderon once, on Youtube, as ...

Happy (Secular) New Year!

We’ll probably be ringing in 2014 in as many different ways as we spent December 25, from watching the Catfish ...

What Does A Southern Jewish Office Do for Christmas?

The ISJL is closed December 25. So, you must be wondering… what does the staff of a Southern Jewish office ...

Friends with Benefits

What do you do when you have a mission to promote Southern Jewish history, but you have no physical place ...

The Many-Flavored Wellspring That Is Orthodox Feminism

Little known fact: The JOFA Conference existed before JOFA existed. The first conference on feminism and Orthodoxy that took place ...

Making Menorah-Oil… Maccabee-Style!

Today’s post is from guest writer Joanna Brichetto, Experiential Educator at Nashville’s West End Synagogue, who also runs the website Bible ...

Connect, and They Will Come

This past Shabbat I hosted the last in the three-part set of gatherings that had been planned, designed and implemented ...

“Only” Christmas Here? Bah Humbug, Billboard!

While recently driving through one of those long rural stretches that blur the lines between Midwest and South, I saw ...

Time for Jewish Christmas Cookies

This time of year can be strange for Jews, and Christmas parties can exacerbate the weirdness. Many a Jew has ...

“Kosher Soul” Shabbat

If you could only cook three dishes for Shabbat dinner what would they be?This was the question we posed to ...

My First JOFA Conference!

I’ve never been to a JOFA conference before. For four years, all through college,  I heard from friends living in ...

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