Southern & Jewish

It’s something that makes most Jewish people cringe: that moment when, in the midst of some celebrity or political or ...

Imagine for a moment that you’re strolling down the main thoroughfare of a bustling city. The year is 1946, and ...

Every summer, the ISJL office is privileged to be one of the stops on the journey of teens participating in ...

There is something about the Mississippi Delta. Known as “the most southern place on earth,” the Delta region is a ...

Studying text is one way to gather knowledge and inspiration as we seek to live meaningful lives and work to improve ...

This post is written by Education Fellow Allison Poirier. I live in Mississippi now, but I remain a very proud native ...

A few weeks ago, I was sitting in the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. They had arranged a viewing of ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about race lately. Many others have, too, in the aftermath of George Zimmerman’s acquittal – ...

Sometimes, being a Jewish organization in the Deep South means being perceived as an “outsider”– outside the major metropolitan areas, ...

I’ve been settling in to my new home in Jackson, Mississippi, for just over a month now, and it seems ...

One of the greatest things about the “Southern Jewish Experience” is getting not only to have Southern Jewish experiences, but ...

I was moved by a story I heard on NPR last week. Krista Tippet, host of NPR’s show “On Being,” ...