Pray

A number of recent essays have been swimming their way across the blogosphere and seem to have serendipitously swirled together. ...

Oklahoma City, where I live, has an amazing Jewish community. And, unfortunately, this amazing Jewish community is an expert in ...

As part of a gap year between high school and college, I spent six months in Santiago, Chile. I was ...

The yahrzeit for slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, passed with scant notice here a few days ago on the 12th of  ...

“Do you know of a prayer for a surrogate?” The question came over Facebook Chat a few nights ago, sent ...

I was listening to National Public Radio on the way into work this morning, hearing more and more details of ...

Today’s post is from Education Fellow Amanda Winer. “Kids, let me tell you the story of how I met your ...

I recently met a woman who I really liked. We have a lot in common, being  professionally accomplished Jewish women ...

Occasionally, a book about Jewish prayer will tell you that Judaism discourages spontaneous prayer. That magic of Jewish prayer, the ...

Today’s reflective post comes from Education Fellow Lex Rofes.The end of summer can be a whirlwind for ISJL Education Fellows, ...

I admit that I’ve never been particularly hip.Even as a teenager, at best I was probably pretty geeky, and what’s ...

In 2009, President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, with a simple, moving speech. He spoke of the challenge of ...