Southern & Jewish
Rabbi Hinchin on Dr. Jacob Rader Marcus
Sometimes oral history interviews yield interesting clips that don’t have a clear home among our current history resources. Fortunately, this ...
From the Collection: Clarksdale’s Spunky, Scrapbooking Youth
The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience has a collection of over 3,000 objects and archival materials that tell the ...
A Long Overdue Visit
Clarksdale, Mississippi. To fans of the blues, Clarksdale is the birthplace of the great Sam Cook, “A Change is Gonna ...
The Adat Chaverim Macharniks and a Successful Jewish Tomorrow
This post is by second year Education Fellow Ben Chaidell.ISJL Education Fellows often work with our communities on how to ...
Pigging Out … Or Not
So there’s this website called Pork Memoirs.Dedicated to sharing “personal stories about a complicated meat,” the site explores personal identity ...
How to Ship a Torah
A new congregation in Savannah, Georgia was looking forward to celebrating the high holidays together for the first time, but ...
Repairing Our World, Starting in the South
Tikkun olam has long been a hallmark of Jewish life – and that’s certainly true here in the South.Southern Jewish ...
The High Holiday Research Method
With Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur just behind us, I thought I would share a little bit about the significance ...
Holiday Wishes
In advance of Yom Kippur, the entire ISJL staff would like to wish all of our friends and readers a ...
Finding Joy
The following thoughts come to us from Education Fellow Erin Kahal.A few weeks ago, another Education Fellow, Sam Kahan, and ...
High Holy Days: Collective Sin, Collective Success
Within the liturgy of Yom Kippur, guilt is assumed to be collective, as we communally recite the sins. That being ...
Streaming Judaism: Dreams to Deeds Podcast Debuts
A few weeks ago, Rachel Stern wrote about the real blessings technology can bring, particularly when you’re outside of a ...