Camp

But Can You Pick Your Family?

“Usually I would say I want to go to camp to see all my old friends, but to be honest ...

Celebrating Sukkot on the Canadian shores of Lake Ontario, as I did as a child, was fraught with complications. Evening ...

I took a look at my cell phone clock, which read 7:05 AM. I was incredibly sleepy, but not because ...

As the summer drew to a close, I took a picture with the other Nadiv Educator at my camp. He’s ...

The summer Torah portion, Matot, opens with Moses giving the following instructions to the Israelite tribal heads: “If a man ...

Back in October, we tried something new at the day school half of my job: Tefillahpalooza. You can read the ...

This week, ISJL staff have been all over… and in addition to visiting Southern Jewish communities, we’ve been serving as ...

I still have not gotten situated to the long Shabbats of the summer. For sixteen summers, I was immersed in ...

“And go round and round and round in the circle game…”The words of Joni Mitchell’s classic folk song have been ...

“How did the Jews become a global people?”“They got pushed around a bunch.”“They had to go to different places.”Indeed. Looking ...