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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 ...
Genesis and Human Stewardship of the Earth
As humans and Jews we have a responsibility to take care of the earth.
October Mourning and Tikkun Olam
“And you shall lay down, and no man shall terrify you….” Whenever I stand up in shul on Shabbat and ...
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: ...