Southern & Jewish

My Mississippi rabbinical colleague Rabbi Debra Kassoff and myself will both be making a bold statement this spring; more accurately, ...

It’s a big sports week in the Jewish South! First, there’s a new Jewish college basketball coach at a big ...

In the South, we love our sports. March Madness is on the horizon and our minds are on the game! ...

Every year, when mid-March rolls around, the minds of so many turn to the NCAA basketball tournament and “March Madness.” ...

Jackson, Mississippi has one of the largest St. Patrick’s Day parades in the country. This Saturday, 70,000(!) people will line ...

Are we doing enough to nurture Jewish introverts?It’s a fair question. Jewish culture is often depicted as loud, full of ...

“In the Nazi concentration camps of Germany people had seen the end results of racism.”- Lee Lorch to New York ...

The Whipping Man , by playwright Matthew Lopez, depicts an amazing historical convergence: the Civil War’s end, this nation’s long ...

In the late 1970s, my Uncle Eric Rofes marched in a gay pride parade in the Boston area with a ...

This morning, my friend and co-worker Nonnie asked me if I had seen the Oscars. I told her I had ...

The parades of Mardi Gras are a communal event. It isn’t unusual for folks to begin gathering in their favorite ...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there was a student who wanted to have a Star ...