Partner Blogs
Single in the (Jewish) South
This blog post was written by ISJL Education Fellow Missy Goldstein. It is almost without fail that calling my Bubbe leads ...
Cutting Material from My Novel
One of the hardest things to get used to in writing a novel is cutting material to speed up the ...
It’s Not You, It’s Me: The Pew Study and Talented Tenth Judaism
By now, if you are reading this, you undoubtedly have been inundated with punditry about the meaning of the Pew ...
Dynamic and Polyglot: Judaism’s (Hasidic) Revival Movement
The following is a “lost” introduction from a previous iteration of the Jews of Today project. It is much different in tone ...
Small Congregations, Big Blessings: Delivering A Legacy
On Yom Kippur this year, the few remaining families of the 161-year old congregation of B’nai El in St. Louis, ...
Summer Lovin’ – Alyia & Max
ALYIA & MAX CUTLER When/how/where at camp did you meet? Max and I met for the first time at Camp ...
Torah for Siblings
In just a couple weeks, with the help of God and the hospital staff, my family is going to undergo ...
My Best Friend Came Out At Our Yeshiva
In September, a family member came out to me after months of struggling with his sexual orientation. He cited the ...
Sleepaway Camp and the Future of Jewish Life
Jeremy J. Fingerman is the CEO of the Foundation for Jewish Camp.Last week, I had the distinct privilege of attending ...
From My Orthodox Yeshiva to Standing With My Husband Under the Huppah
When I thought about my future as a kid, the image of a wedding would come into focus. A beautiful ...
Sex and violence
A friend of mine recently posted a link to this blog post about a screening of an Israeli film titled ...
My Journey to Authentic Living
We’re incredibly grateful to Yiscah for sharing this excerpt from her forthcoming book, 40 Years in the Wilderness: My Journey ...
Touring with Sholem Aleichem
So my biography of Sholem Aleichem – the great Jewish writer, perhaps the greatest in modern Jewish history, the man who created ...
Being Part of the Whole
I learned recently that groups of animals have the most interesting names. Some are well known, like a school of ...
Jews in the Pew (Survey)
Like everyone else I know who is active in the Jewish community, my Facebook page and email inbox have been ...