Southern & Jewish

In lieu of our regularly scheduled blog post today, the staff of the ISJL all send our love, thoughts, and ...

Last week, the Alabama House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill setting up a procedure to pardon the Scottsboro Boys, ...

We recently finished celebrating Passover, a holiday where “oppression” is an ongoing theme (and freedom, of course, is our cause ...

Today is Yom HaShoah, and while the atrocities committed by the Nazis and their collaborators may seem very distant from ...

For those of you with teams in the tournament, or whose brackets are still alive, enjoy the weekend.  I’ve been ...

Today marks the 45th anniversary of the tragic assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the balcony of ...

I’d like to preface today’s post by saying that while I *wish* this were some sort of April Fool’s Day ...

On Tuesday night, I hosted a large Passover seder at my home in Jackson, Mississippi. Out of love for this ...

Today’s post features more Jewish history from Kentucky, the most recent state completed in our Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities.  When ...

Sending wishes for joyful seders and a sweet Pesach , whether you’re celebrating in the South, North, East, or West! ...

Shopping for Passover items can be challenging in small Southern towns – and I’m sure there are others around the ...

On a recent pit stop I made in a rural part of Tennessee, I found an unexpected statement. There, in ...