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Snapchat’s Top Rabbi

When the list of the top ten Jews you should follow on social media platform Snapchat came out this week ...

Camp Rabbi, Role Model, Match-Maker

This week rabbinic student Isaama Stoll is heading up to Camp Be’chol Lashon to teach Torah, pray and hang with other ...

On Being a Rabbi in Mississippi, Taking the Stand (Literally) Against Discrimination

When I began my position as Director of Rabbinic Services at the Institute of Southern Jewish Life just over two years ...

Notes from a 13-Year-Old Rabbi

Today I become an adult rabbi.This June marks my 13th year since ordination as a rabbi, and my 13th year ...

My Southbound Story: Student Rabbi Rob

As we prepare to welcome more than a half-dozen new Jewish professionals to Mississippi for internships and fellowships at the ...

How This “Running Rabbi” Found More Meaning in Miles

As a rabbi on staff at the ISJL, I travel around the South quite a bit. Recently, I had the ...

Reform and Transgender & Non-Gender Conforming Jews

The history of transgender and non-gender conforming people in the Reform Movement goes back further than we might initially realize. ...

Jamming in Jerusalem with My Landlady’s Husband

My name is Sandra Lawson, and I am rabbinical student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. I’m spending this semester in ...

We Don’t Count People… Because All People Count

Every few months, I receive a tentative “cold call” from a congregation interested in using the services of the ISJL ...

When I Lost Control, I Started to Lose Weight

There are lots of versions of this story, and while it would be just perfect if it were true, its ...