Southern & Jewish

There’s an article that’s been going around a lot this past week, about being Jewish in the South. Naturally, the ...

I had been out of town for a few days. When I returned to the ISJL office in Jackson, I ...

There are 650 miles and 3 states between Fort Mill, South Carolina and Greenwood, Mississippi, but their connection is closer ...

Hurricane Katrina (and the man-made disaster of the levee breaks) struck Louisiana and Mississippi seven years ago today, with devastating ...

Skype. Gchat. iPhone.These are some of my primary tools in my modern Jewish education career.Utilizing technology is important for pretty ...

My name is Ann Zivitz Kimball, and I’m a proud Southern Jew.Since “Southern & Jewish” is the name of this ...

This week marks the 21st anniversary of the Crown Heights Riots. When these riots took place in 1991, I was ...

At the little public library in Hartshorne, Oklahoma, I see a man wearing a camouflage-patterned Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. baseball ...

Sometimes, in a small Southern town, you might not hear the call of the shofar outside of High Holy Day ...

Shalom, y’all! We are so excited to officially launch this blog, and have this wonderful new way to share stories ...

Along with the nation, we mourn for the loss of life at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin. We mourn, too, ...

At first, it seemed crazy: writing the histories of 55 different Texas Jewish communities for our Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities. The ...