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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 ...
Give Me Some of that Old Time Blasphemy
There is much discussion currently about imposing limits on blasphemy. It seems clear that the vast majority of those in ...
Blue Jews
There are white Jews, Black Jews, Asian Jews, and Arab Jews – but blue Jews? No, no such thing exists. ...
The War of Narratives
When I first started writing, I loved reading advice for writers from my favorite authors. Yet there was one common ...
Do You Remember Me?
One of the things that sometimes is embarrassing and/or sometimes frustrating, is when someone comes up to me and says: ...
Texas and Illegal Jewish Immigrants
While illegal immigration has become a hot button issue in recent years, it is not a new phenomenon. In fact, ...
Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage: “a journey to a place associated with someone or something well known or respected” (The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of ...
Southern & Jewish: Pride, or Prejudice?
There’s an article that’s been going around a lot this past week, about being Jewish in the South. Naturally, the ...
How Deep Are Our Thoughts?
For our first anniversary, my wife and I went on a trip through the Southwest, seeing Sedona, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, ...
Illusions and Remembering
I liked to sit sipping coffee in the tall kitchen window of my apartment in Vilnius. The window overlooked the ...
Obligation, Faith, and Service After the Storm
I had been out of town for a few days. When I returned to the ISJL office in Jackson, I ...