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B’reshit and Bashert: In Our beginning, All Kinds of Love Were Sanctified

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...

Achieving Shalom

Commonly defined as peace, hello and goodbye, Shalom cannot simply be translated and then understood by its English description. In ...

David Duke & Intermarriage

The Forward is reporting that David Duke gave another antisemitic speech at his favorite Ukrainian university last week. “The Jewish ...

Morbid Jews

The other night I went to an Emerging Jewish Writers panel/reading as part of the Steinhardt Jewish Heritage Festival. The ...

Israeli Food

Israelis have developed and continue to enjoy a delicious cuisine rooted in the uniqueness of Israeli society itself.

Interfaith Families

With intermarriage an acknowledged part of the American landscape, the only remaining debate is how to respond to interfaith unions.

Jewish Ritual Objects: A Guide

From challah covers to yahrzeit candles, what they are used for, how they look and where you can find them.

Israel & Syria

-Turkey is readying efforts to get Israel-Syria talks underway. (Haaretz)-Looking at the substantial domestic opposition to a deal with Syria ...

Mensch Madness 2016 Begins!

Every March, the ISJL (a very sports-centric Southern and Jewish office) holds a tournament of champions: Mensch Madness.We get in ...

Taking the Bat out of Batman

“The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary.”–Franz Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes.In the up coming, and probably ...

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