identity

Being Jewish in Jonesboro, Arkansas

Today’s guest post comes from our friend Andrea Levy, a fairly recent transplant to Jonesboro, Arkansas. Thanks for sharing your ...

Should We Really Label Our Children? Yes…Sometimes.

I’ve always been troubled by the “four children” in the Haggadah.Passover is supposed to teach our children about how we ...

Do Cities Have Identities?

It’s true: I grew up in a town so far South, it’s North. With residents mostly emigrating from colder climates, ...

Jews and Tattoos: Navigating a new landscape

Once a month at our family Shabbat service we ask families to submit questions in advance in what, in lieu ...

“Funny, You Don’t Look Jewish…”

Three Jewish women walked into a nail salon….This is not a joke, just what I did with two of my ...

I Belong Everywhere

This week, as I perused the internet, I stumbled upon a quiz entitled “Where You Belong: Your State Personality.”It involved ...

Who Will My Daughter Be?

On October 1 (and about four and half weeks early), my wife and I welcomed our daughter into the world. ...

The Problem with Florida

Want some insights into a historian’s dilemma? It involves cultural identity. Geography. And NASCAR. (Well – sort of.)The Encyclopedia of ...

What’s In A (Jewish) Name?

This is another post from one of our terrific summer interns, Caroline Kahlenberg, who completed this piece for us as ...

Bad News Jews

It’s something that makes most Jewish people cringe: that moment when, in the midst of some celebrity or political or ...