Partner Blogs

This is the second in a series of four farewell posts from the ISJL’s 2013-2015 Education Fellows, who will all begin ...

We are walking along a busy, suburban street that runs mostly parallel to the highway connecting our town to the ...

Partnership minyans are a relatively new phenomenon in our part of northwest London, so when one started around the corner ...

It’s Shavuot! It’s Memorial Day weekend! It’s my first week in a new city! In fact, it’s all three of ...

Two years ago at the ISJL Education Conference, there was a wonderful program about diversity and inclusion in our Jewish ...

The American Jewish community is getting older. There is a graying of the Jewish community that is happening across the ...

Bamidbar is my daughter Elena’s bat mitzvah portion. As she was approaching bat mitzvah, fifteen years ago, my father was ...

As we are approach the end of the Counting of the Omer, the 49-day period between Passover and Shavuot, I’m ...

As I wrote in The Torch last fall, I started attending the early morning minyan at my synagogue with the ...

A friend tipped me off to a new reality TV show that was about to begin publicizing its pilot episode. ...

This is the first in a series of four farewell posts from the ISJL’s 2013-2015 Education Fellows, who will all ...

 June is Pride Month, and it’s one of the best opportunities of the year for visibly demonstrating your institution’s commitment ...

It’s getting hard to find role models in sports these days.  Especially in the National Football League, where stars such ...

1 in 6 contemporary Jews are new to Judaism. How are we supposed to welcome these converts? Rabbi Juan Mejia, a ...

Megillat Ruth is named for the heroine Ruth, who clung to Naomi in what the tradition has perceived as an ...