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A Real-Life Purim Superhero: An Interview with Elisabeth Kushner
The world’s first LGBT inclusive Jewish children’s book in English has arrived!Published by Kar-Ben Publishing, an award-winning publisher of Jewish ...
The ISJL at 13: Resolutions
2013 marks the ISJL’s thirteenth year of existence.Our B’nai Mitzvah Year.*We will go through many of the same things any ...
Living the Legacy: Shabbat Suppers Continuing MLK’s Dream
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is two weeks from today – Monday, January 21, 2013. This year, consider celebrating Dr. ...
Scenes Around the South
As 2012 draws to a close, we thought we’d share some recent images from our staff’s travels around the South ...
A Jewish Thanksgiving in Avalon
Every Thanksgiving I think of the Thanksgiving scene in the 1990 film Avalon, one of Barry Levinson’s semi-autobiographical Baltimore films. Avalon tells a ...
Chanukah/Hanukkah: So Many Ways to Celebrate
The Daf Yomi (Hebrew for “page a day”), is a program for learning Talmud. Participants study one page a day, ...
“Shalom, Y’all”: An Arkansas Pastor’s Chanukah Wish
This blog originally appeared on Lutheran Confessions, and is re-posted here with permission from the author, Pastor Clint Schnekloth. Although ...
It’s Hanukkah Time! Where’s the Party?
Every December, I am overwhelmed by the magnitude of Jewish celebrations taking place across the United States. This is a ...
Can We Please Stop Re-Fighting Hanukkah?
Ask any Jew what Hanukkah is about and you are likely to get one of two possible explanations: Maccabees or ...
Fighting for Us
I have always loved telling the Chanukah story because it is so much about the strength of the Jewish people. ...
Shopping: A Southern Jewish Tradition
It’s that time of year again. Just when Southerners are celebrating football and the waning summer heat, the holiday shopping ...