Former Fellow Flashback: Beth, 2003-2005

This February, for the first time ever, the ISJL is hosting a reunion of all of the alumni of our Education ...

Samurai Yenta

It’s hard to kvetch about being a Japanese Jew when you’re being spoiled by ladles of chicken schmaltz spoon-fed to ...

The Jewish Denominations

A quick look at Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist Judaism — and at other Jewish streams.

Rabbis Speak Out for Equality

On July 1st, Massachusetts moved one step closer to living up to its reputation as the birthplace of democracy – ...

Siona Benjamin

An artist who paints from the East.

Reconciliation Within the Family and Beyond the Family

The Book of Genesis is nothing if not a story of dysfunctional families.Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Hagar, Sarah ...

These Jewish Pop-Ups Are the Hottest Tables in Chicago

These 3 pop-up restaurants offer inspired Jewish menus for Chicago food lovers.

How to Build a Movement: A Conversation with Shelly Weiss Part 2

Shelly Weiss, an iconic self-defined queer, Jewish, genderfluid lifelong political activist and founder of OUTmedia, is the subject of this ...

Witnessing Evangelical Awe in Israel

By the shores of the Galilee, alongside the remains of the ancient city of Capernaum, we stood in a circle ...

Queering the Bible in London

How the Radical Jewish Traveler discovered the diversity of London Jewish life.