Rachel Jarman Myers
Rachel Jarman Myers is the Museum and Special Projects Coordinator for the ISJL.
Articles by Rachel Jarman Myers
From the Collection: When Life Gives You Wood, Make Ducks
I was in North Mississippi, visiting my husband’s family for the first time over Thanksgiving when I first heard about ...
Spend a Summer in the South
Devoid of a Southern accent, people often ask me where I’m from. They are surprised that I’m from Connecticut. The ...
Shopping: A Southern Jewish Tradition
It’s that time of year again. Just when Southerners are celebrating football and the waning summer heat, the holiday shopping ...
From the Collection: High Water
As stated in one of our last posts about the hurricane, we are familiar with what the devastation of hurricanes ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mazel Tov to Temple Kol Tikvah
Last Wednesday morning, a beautiful photograph of Jerusalem stone appeared in my Facebook newsfeed. The picture shows a large wall ...