Southern & Jewish
Seek Stories, Not Stereotypes
There’s one page I follow obsessively on Facebook: Humans of New York.Brandon, the photographer and author behind HONY, approaches total ...
Team Jewish
Jews get lumped together a lot. Polls refer to “the Jewish vote.” We hear about the “Jewish response.” Labels of Jewish are ...
A Different Kind of Jewish “Movement”
“Do you live in the same place where you were raised?” The ISJL’s founder, Macy B. Hart, likes to ask ...
My First Time at Jewish Summer Camp
I have very fond memories of my first time at Jewish summer camp. It seems like it was only yesterday.Actually, ...
Big Questions Vs. Hard Questions
At this year’s ISJL Education Conference, I helped lead a session about “Conflict Transformation.” The term is used to describe ...
Finding Jewish Life in Unexpected Places
I recently spent two weeks in Philadelphia participating in a two week seminar as part of my Museum Studies masters ...
“Chosen” Doesn’t Have to Mean “Apart”
As Parashat Va’et’hanan opens, Moses is pleading for forgiveness, in order to be permitted to enter the promised land along ...
“Is That A Cross On Your License Plate, Rabbi?”
“Um, Rabbi? Don’t you feel a little bit weird with a cross on the back of your car?”I fielded this ...
Camp Connections Across The South
This week, ISJL staff have been all over… and in addition to visiting Southern Jewish communities, we’ve been serving as ...
Operation Oneg: A Southern & Jewish Soldier Story
Last week was my first adventure on the road as an Education Fellow. I went to Montgomery and Auburn, Alabama, ...
Summer Camp Circle Game
“And go round and round and round in the circle game…”The words of Joni Mitchell’s classic folk song have been ...
Operation: Understanding – Our History, Our Present
Yesterday, the ISJL hosted students from Operation Understanding, an organization whose mission is to develop a group of young African ...