hope

God is Coming and She Brings Hope

For forty-eight minutes, Father O’Neal was dead.As he crossed over into the next realm, he saw God.Forty-eight hours later, he ...

Light Growing in My Darkness

I am a person particularly affected by sunlight, aware of a shift in my body and mood that coincides with ...

The Season of Our Newborn Joy

At the end of the Day of Atonement we petition: “Breathe into me of Your spirit, and I will live ...

The Pope’s Kippah

So the Pope lost his kippah for a moment. I’ve been there. As a fellow bald man and kippah wearer ...

Mandela and Messianic Time

In less than a week, so much has been said to eulogize Nelson Mandela. Together with Frederik Willem de Klerk, ...

My Summer in Mississippi: A New Yorker Reflects

This blog is written by Sam Gardner, who just finished his summer internship in the ISJL’s history department. The Neshoba ...

Operation Understanding

Every summer, the ISJL office is privileged to be one of the stops on the journey of teens participating in ...

Race Matters: Reflections from a White Southern Jewish Mother

I’ve been thinking a lot about race lately. Many others have, too, in the aftermath of George Zimmerman’s acquittal – ...

Blessings for Boston

In lieu of our regularly scheduled blog post today, the staff of the ISJL all send our love, thoughts, and ...

Taking The Plunge

It was January 2007, almost exactly six years ago. I was sitting in my office, reviewing a dense corporate document ...