Partner Blogs
Learning from Little White Lies
Growing up biracial in white Jewish family means that you don’t often see others who have your experience/look like you. ...
What We Need This Tisha B’Av: Respectful Disagreement
The world is in chaos. An airplane with more than 300 people shot down over Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of ...
A Book and Its Translators
It was a freezing afternoon outside Warsaw in March 2012, and I was sitting in a cramped hut listening to ...
Struggling with the Shabbos Bride
Lekhah Dodi (‘Come my friend’) is the hymn sung on Friday night to welcome Shabbat. The prayer begins, “Come my friend, ...
Camp as a Place for Change
I still have not gotten situated to the long Shabbats of the summer. For sixteen summers, I was immersed in ...
Time for Christian Voices Against Anti-Semitism
Is anti-Semitism like pornography? Do we know it when we see it? Absurd on the one hand, this analogy helps ...
Summer Camp, Life Skills and Confidence
In partnership with The Jewish Week’s “The New Normal” blog, FJC is pleased to present a series of blog posts ...
America and the Sin of Sodom
“We are not a country that should turn children away and send them back to certain death,” -Maryland Governor, Martin ...
Teens & Screens Part 2: Cyberbullying
The following is the second in a three-part series on how to help safely navigate the world of social media ...
Operation Oneg: A Southern & Jewish Soldier Story
Last week was my first adventure on the road as an Education Fellow. I went to Montgomery and Auburn, Alabama, ...
Lessons I Learned From Reciting Kaddish for Mom
The recitation of Kaddish benefits both the soul of the departed loved one, as well as the mourner.
Coming Home Different
I didn’t expect to cry when I picked my kid up from camp.When I dropped him off at the bus? ...
Just Your Typical Interfaith, Interethnic Two-Dad Family
Last week on the blog, S. Bear Bergman of the Flamingo Rampant Book Club issued a call for children’s books that ...
The Nine Days
As of yesterday, Monday July 28th, we Jews have begun “The Nine Days.”You may not know what I’m talking about, ...
Robots, Minecraft, and Shabbat
The following post is the next in our summer series hearing from the camps that were launched as a result ...