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“We ALL Have Work To Do”: Dr. Susan Glisson on Race, the “Riot” at Ole Miss, and Reconciliation
There it was, in the news, soon after the results of the November 6 election were announced: bigotry in the ...
From the Collection: “What My Lady Should Not Wear”
There are moments as an archivist when something unusual (like a fur muff or a military notebook) sticks out from ...
Rabbis on the Road
Rabbis and cantors from Central Synagogue in New York are about to hit the Southern road. Again.It’s all part of ...
From the Collection: Clarksdale’s Spunky, Scrapbooking Youth
The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience has a collection of over 3,000 objects and archival materials that tell the ...
A Long Overdue Visit
Clarksdale, Mississippi. To fans of the blues, Clarksdale is the birthplace of the great Sam Cook, “A Change is Gonna ...
The Adat Chaverim Macharniks and a Successful Jewish Tomorrow
This post is by second year Education Fellow Ben Chaidell.ISJL Education Fellows often work with our communities on how to ...
Pigging Out … Or Not
So there’s this website called Pork Memoirs.Dedicated to sharing “personal stories about a complicated meat,” the site explores personal identity ...
How to Ship a Torah
A new congregation in Savannah, Georgia was looking forward to celebrating the high holidays together for the first time, but ...
The High Holiday Research Method
With Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur just behind us, I thought I would share a little bit about the significance ...
Holiday Wishes
In advance of Yom Kippur, the entire ISJL staff would like to wish all of our friends and readers a ...