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Jewish Thought, Live, Southern & Jewish
#TBT: Reflecting on Last Week’s MLK Service Day
If you ever want to visit the ISJL office, make sure not to come on a Friday. Chances are, you ...
Gender & Sexuality, Keshet, Live
Q&A with Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, the White House’s Primary LGBT Liaison
Keshet recently spoke with Raffi Freedman-Gurspan. Raffi, a Jewish woman, is the first openly transgender member of staff at the White House. ...
Gender & Sexuality, Jewish History, Jewish Thought, Keshet, Live, Study
How to Build a Movement: A Conversation with Shelly Weiss
Given the rise of today’s growing youth-led LGBTQ movements, there seems to be a divide between where we have been ...
Celebrate, Jewish Thought, Live, Passover, Southern & Jewish
Privilege & Oppression
We recently finished celebrating Passover, a holiday where “oppression” is an ongoing theme (and freedom, of course, is our cause ...
Jewish Thought, Live, Southern & Jewish
Legal Role Models (Or, Sometimes You Really Can Put a Face to Community Engagement)
T.A.P. (Talk About the Problems), the ISJL’s peer mediation program, trains students to help their peers resolve conflicts peacefully. The peer-led-model ...
Celebrate, Hanukkah, Jewish Thought, Live, Rabbis Without Borders
Hanukkah is Coming: Don’t Let the Light Go Out
I have always found it difficult to romanticize the tale of right and might that belongs to the Maccabees. I ...