Partner Blogs

This past week, two of my Rabbis Without Borders colleagues have shared their perspectives and struggles with the religious identities ...

This is another post from one of our terrific summer interns, Caroline Kahlenberg, who completed this piece for us as ...

This week there has been much conversation online and offline on the Jewish status of people of patrilineal Jewish descent. ...

This morning my wife and I drove our youngest daughter to the airport as she left for a year of ...

When I was a camper a billion years ago, my parents had no idea what was going on at camp ...

Two articles posted earlier this week made reference to an individual  who had been born to a Jewish father and ...

“Do you know a rabbi by the name of Abraham Joshua Heschel?”The question was asked of me by Jean Jackson, ...

A colleague who I trust and admire recently shared with me a New York Times piece she wrote about sending ...

I’m just afraid that history will repeat itself. On October 15th, 1965, the first person to be arrested for burning ...

This blog is written by Sam Gardner, who just finished his summer internship in the ISJL’s history department. The Neshoba ...

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as  parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...

It is one month until Rosh Hashannah, the Jewish New Year. That sentence strikes fear in to the heart of ...

Traditional Jewish thought sees the whole world as a laboratory for learning. On the one hand, everything has value in ...

ALEXANDRA & ERIC SPITZ When/how/where at camp did you meet? We attended Camp JCA Shalom in Malibu, CA as kids ...

At the ISJL, we’re often asked about all things “Southern” and “Jewish” – so it was no surprise that we ...