Fulfilling the 613th commandment

Here’s my entry in the 28 Days, 28 Ideas series. The article — Idea #23 — was written for Jewcy.com, ...

I am headed to Israel today for three glorious weeks of working, traveling and what else: eating.Last summer I was ...

I know a little something about hearing voices. My first book,  Muses, Madmen, and Prophets , was about auditory hallucinations ...

Before I moved to Jackson, Mississippi, in 2003, I had only a passing familiarity with the South. Yes, I had ...

Traditional interpretations of what the four species represent.

Hurricane Katrina (and the man-made disaster of the levee breaks) struck Louisiana and Mississippi seven years ago today, with devastating ...

After our daughter was born, the number of people who told us “it goes by soooo fast” was too many ...

The past few weeks have felt like a whirlwind of packing, unpacking, eating, and then packing again. My daughter and ...

T.A.P. (Talk About the Problems), the ISJL’s peer mediation program, trains students to help their peers resolve conflicts peacefully. The peer-led-model ...