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Camp is almost here.  As you pack the duffel bags, label the underwear, and organize the toiletries you have to ...

Sooner or later, everything you say or do will be recorded.  The internet, like an elephant, never forgets. I’m sure ...

This past Thursday, my wife and I got up early, packed our car with trunks, suitcases, plastic drawers, and sleeping ...

I think of Claudia Silver, the eponymous heroine of my debut novel,  Claudia Silver to the Rescue , as one ...

When I was about twelve years old, I opened my younger brother’s textbook, just out of curiosity. This textbook from ...

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

SAMANTHA & BRIAN ISENSTEIN When/how/where at camp did you meet? We met in the picnic grove during lunch, on the ...

I n honor of Father’s/Fathers’ Day, we bring you Gregg Drinkwater’s essay on being a gay dad. You can read ...

This post is from a new staff member, 2013-2015 ISJL Education Fellow Lex Rofes.A few weeks ago, I listened intently ...

We often tend to use the same language for time as we use for money. We “spend” it. We “save” ...

My father’s artwork was always how I made sense of the world around me. The sometimes scary, ghetto Lower East ...

I remember being a little kid, maybe four or five, when my dad sat me down with a workbook and ...

According to the National Jewish Population Survey, there are approximately 1.5 million non-Jews helping to raise Jewish families in the ...

I changed my name from Hazak Brozgold to Royal Young when I was 20 years old. I was a drunk ...

A series by Jewish moms and dads with LGBTQ children. When a child comes out, a coming out process begins ...