Connection

At first blush, I might not seem like a very “Southern” Jewish girl: I grew up in Chicago, after all. ...

Hi there! Remember me? Just last year, I was traveling all over the South serving wonderful communities as an ISJL ...

I’m a cat person. I currently have a sweet cat named Ella, who moved down to Mississippi with me last ...

At my congregation in New Orleans, I teach an adult beginner Hebrew class. There are many different types of students ...

We use the phrase “transplants” often down here—referring to the “Yankees” who for one reason or another found themselves down South. ...

The stereotype that “Jews run Hollywood” didn’t come up much when I was a little kid; I doubt it comes up for most kids. ...

What began years ago has now become a very common event in our Delta community of Greenwood, Mississippi: we host ...

This past Shabbat I hosted the last in the three-part set of gatherings that had been planned, designed and implemented ...

The hebrew letters that spell out the name of the Jewish month that we have just entered – Elul – ...

At about 3:30 pm on Monday, our house in White Plains, New York lost TV and Internet service. We still ...