2013

Encountering the Hasidic Enclave

Jews of Today could never have begun as a project had I not encountered the phenomenon of the Hasidic enclave. As ...

Eight Ways to Lose Weight on Hanukkah

So everybody knows that Hanukkah is all about miracles, right? I think when it comes to miracles we’re each entitled to our ...

Our Daughters’ Tallitot

In the fortunate cases it is the grandparents, often it is the parents, and sometimes even a sibling who stands ...

Teaching Our Children How to Swim

In addition to beginning to plan for the upcoming 2014 camping season, Gilad and I find ourselves also busy preparing ...

Single in the (Jewish) South

This blog post was written by ISJL Education Fellow Missy Goldstein. It is almost without fail that calling my Bubbe leads ...

Cutting Material from My Novel

One of the hardest things to get used to in writing a novel is cutting material to speed up the ...

It’s Not You, It’s Me: The Pew Study and Talented Tenth Judaism

By now, if you are reading this, you undoubtedly have been inundated with punditry about the meaning of the Pew ...

Dynamic and Polyglot: Judaism’s (Hasidic) Revival Movement

The following is a “lost” introduction from a previous iteration of the Jews of Today project. It is much different in tone ...

Small Congregations, Big Blessings: Delivering A Legacy

On Yom Kippur this year, the few remaining families of the 161-year old congregation of B’nai El in St. Louis, ...

Around the World in 88 Planes (Or, Gematria on the Go)

This piece is by Education Fellow Amanda Winer. As I was flying home from a recent trip to one of ...

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