Jewish History
Getting to Know (Jewish) Natchez
Last week, I was on the road with TENT, a week-long traveling seminar on culture, history, and social justice for ...
A Phone Call From a Man Named Spike
Fully capturing the essence of Jewish life across the South can be tricky, especially in towns without a formal congregation. ...
Rabbi Thrown Out Of Jackson Restaurant: The Real Story
“Did you hear about the rabbi getting thrown out of a Jackson restaurant?”Everyone at our office has been asked that ...
Interfaith Collaboration: A Southern Tradition
This past week, two of my co-workers and I attended an interesting lecture by Reverend Ben Matin at Millsaps College, ...
Apologizing for Our Parents’ Sins
My mother was born in Germany in 1939. She grew up there, emigrating to the United States in 1968, after ...
Meeting My Palestinian Neighbors For the First Time
Nine months ago I opened the front door of my apartment in Alon Shvut and took a 20-minute walk that ...
A Historian’s First Trip to the Jewish Delta
What’s “new” for this historian? Well, at the moment, we are in the process of updating the Mississippi entries for ...
Researching Jewish History through a Woman’s Eyes
It’s strange but true that being a woman made me uniquely positioned to write my historical novels. Growing up a ...
An Ancient Oath Renewed for Labor Day
Often reality is stranger than fiction; The vote for one of the first major strike in American history was taken ...
If We Remove Our Masks, We Have a Chance to Save the World
These past weeks have brought a recipe of complication and hardship which have sent us reeling in disbelief. From Ebola, ...
A Different Kind of Jewish “Movement”
“Do you live in the same place where you were raised?”The ISJL’s founder, Macy B. Hart, likes to ask people ...
Bleed Through, a Novel by Ayin Weaver
We’re grateful to Ayin Weaver for sharing a behind the scenes look at the inspiration for her debut novel, Bleed Through. Bleed ...