Partner Blogs

Here’s another in our periodic series about making a home in Mississippi, and feeling that there’s something special about the ...

In loving memory of my mother, Judith Kaufman Hurwich a”hלֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמוֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה. פרקי אבות ...

It feels almost cliché to say that I have loved watching Women’s Gymnastics during these 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio ...

I recently heard Rabbi Joseph Telushkin speak about the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The Rebbe believed that words mattered so much that ...

Reasonable risk seems like an oxymoron. I checked a list of examples to see if it appeared, beside “open secret” ...

In college I was tasked with writing a “This I Believe” essay about my guiding beliefs and values. This assignment wasn’t ...

In her JOFA post, “I Wasn’t Asking for Your Opinion,” Rabbanit Sharona Halickman rightfully criticizes the Orthodox Union for “only now ...

The great challenge is learning how to honor the past while being able to create a future based on fresh ...

 Each year all of the religious schools that make up our ISJL education network gather in Jackson, MS for our ...

Dear Rabbi,I’m getting married! And I’m wondering if you’ll officiate. The wedding will be before sunset on Saturday and, well, ...

When the list of the top ten Jews you should follow on social media platform Snapchat came out this week ...

Many of us have read some of the recent memoirs written by people who have left their Orthodox community of ...

Or Shalom, Vancouver’s East-Side Shul, the synagogue I serve as spiritual leader, is a community of 200 households that has ...

Today’s post comes from Rabbi Bruce Elder, who brought congregants from his suburban-Chicago congregation down South earlier this year.The North ...

Towards the beginning of the Tractate Berachot  (27b-28a) in the Talmud, there is a story about Rabban Gamaliel (the second ...