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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 ...
A Yiddishist in Vilnius
I had fun in Vilnius, despite my low tolerance for fun. Not to mention that fun in Vilnius seemed like ...
When One Ark Closes, Another One Opens
There are 650 miles and 3 states between Fort Mill, South Carolina and Greenwood, Mississippi, but their connection is closer ...
The Presence of the Past
In my Paris neighborhood, I am discovering France’s historic fear of outsiders. Indifference to the fate of those not inside ...
Remembering the Camondos
Now that I live part-time in Paris, I explore the city’s complex and sometimes disturbing relationship to toward its Jewish ...
Facing Paris’s Black Marble Plaques
Now that I live part-time in Paris, I explore the city’s complex and sometimes disturbing relationship to toward its Jewish ...
An Intentional Detour
In my last few blogs, I wrote of my hope that The Promise of Israel can help foster a new ...