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Guest Post: “Goodman Writes” On Southern Jewish Heritage

Today’s blog comes to us from Michael Goodman at Goodman Writes, another “Southern & Jewish” voice. Reprinted with permission of the ...

The Department Store Museum

I was working on an activity for the Texas Jewish Immigrant Experience Traveling Trunk when I came across a gem ...

Who Knows? An Adar of Anticipation

Nine months pregnant on the cusp of Purim.

Please Interrupt Me

A professor friend of mine has been thinking about moments of interruption. How do we cope when they intrude upon ...

A Passover Mitzvah in Southeast Kentucky

In celebration of the completion of the Kentucky section of our online Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities, we bring you ...

Small Town Field Trip for Fort Worth Teens

One of the foundational ideas behind the ISJL is that mid-size and large congregations should build connections to smaller Jewish ...

The Pedagogy of Nemo: What a Winter Storm Can Teach Us About Shabbat

Well, that was an unexpected weekend! For those of you who do not live in the Northeast, we just got ...

Why Rabbis Should Talk About Israel

Should rabbis talk about Israel? In years past, Israel was a subject which united people. You could always count on ...

The Adventures of Matzah Mama

By ISJL Education Fellow, Sam KahanDuring the annual ISJL Education Conference, Education Fellows traditionally present some sort of “ schtick ...

Dreaming in Mother Tongues

Zi kholmt – she dreams.In Irena Klepfisz’s remarkable poem, “Etlekhe verter oyf mame-loshn / A few words in the mother tongue,” the speaker ...

Yiddish and Us

The three of us waited expectantly and somewhat nervously in the seminar room, wondering why we had been summoned by ...

Blessings & Curses: Moments of Misunderstanding

“Jews are dogs, killers of Christ!”The shouts came from an irate woman as I was walking into one of our ...

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