Southern & Jewish

In the best of years, Thanksgiving is a complicated holiday. Its complications are multi-level, valid, and not easily overcome. Many ...

I come from a family of talented women—women who are “makers,” who always seemed to have a needle in their ...

“Athletic” is not a word anyone would use to describe me. No one in my family has athletic ability, and ...

Throughout history, Jews have had many names, including one of my favorites: The People of the Book. We have a ...

It’s Election Day.I voted early, and thank goodness, because it seems voting today may well be a story of long ...

My Jewish life has always been active. I became a Bat Mitzvah right on time, inherited the position of cantorial ...

My family hadn’t been to synagogue in awhile. Even though I’m a Jewish professional myself, it happens—largely because while I ...

Many of my most formative experiences and Jewish-identity-markers have had two things in common: they were highly competitive, and involved ...

Sukkot is almost here! It’s our week to cram friends and family into the sukkah, whether for short services and ...

This summer, two things happened at once, making me think about fasting in a whole new way—and as Yom Kippur ...

“Can you believe it’s been a year!?” Ever since  my son was about 10 months old, many people have commented ...

This is the third installment in my three-part series on “becoming Southern and Jewish.”After “coming out” as Jewish in the ...