Community Engagement
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 ...
J-Serve: Grants for Good
Does your community want to do something in honor of Jewish Youth Service Day, AKA J-Serve? Repair the World is willing ...
A Passover Mitzvah in Southeast Kentucky
In celebration of the completion of the Kentucky section of our online Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities, we bring you ...
The Adventures of Matzah Mama
By ISJL Education Fellow, Sam KahanDuring the annual ISJL Education Conference, Education Fellows traditionally present some sort of “ schtick ...
All Aboard “The Health Express”!
This update comes to us from AmeriCorps member Gernelle Nelson. For her year of national service, she’s working in the Community ...
“The Power is YOURS!”
Did you grow up watching Captain Planet? (I didn’t – but that’s a long story; apparently I have some catching ...
Living the Legacy: Shabbat Suppers Continuing MLK’s Dream
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is two weeks from today – Monday, January 21, 2013. This year, consider celebrating Dr. ...
Spend a Summer in the South
Devoid of a Southern accent, people often ask me where I’m from. They are surprised that I’m from Connecticut. The ...
Freezing Norwegians
On November 28, 2012, National Public Radio aired a segment about this film called: Africa For Norway: Viral Video Pokes ...
“We ALL Have Work To Do”: Dr. Susan Glisson on Race, the “Riot” at Ole Miss, and Reconciliation
There it was, in the news, soon after the results of the November 6 election were announced: bigotry in the ...