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Tikkun olam has long been a hallmark of Jewish life – and that’s certainly true here in the South.Southern Jewish ...

With Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur just behind us, I thought I would share a little bit about the significance ...

There is much discussion currently about imposing limits on blasphemy. It seems clear that the vast majority of those in ...

There are white Jews, Black Jews, Asian Jews, and Arab Jews – but blue Jews? No, no such thing exists. ...

When I first started writing, I loved reading advice for writers from my favorite authors. Yet there was one common ...

One of the things that sometimes is embarrassing and/or sometimes frustrating, is when someone comes up to me and says: ...

While illegal immigration has become a hot button issue in recent years, it is not a new phenomenon. In fact, ...

Pilgrimage: “a journey to a place associated with someone or something well known or respected” (The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of ...

There’s an article that’s been going around a lot this past week, about being Jewish in the South. Naturally, the ...

For our first anniversary, my wife and I went on a trip through the Southwest, seeing Sedona, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, ...

I liked to sit sipping coffee in the tall kitchen window of my apartment in Vilnius. The window overlooked the ...

I had been out of town for a few days. When I returned to the ISJL office in Jackson, I ...