Community Engagement

 From my adopted hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, I’ve been thinking about Freedom Summer.Now that we are a month away from ...

This morning, the world learned that we lost a great voice in literature and civil rights.Maya Angelou was born in ...

You might have seen these adorable pictures on our Facebook page of smiling children with a Hamsa in the background. ...

Years ago, one of my high school teachers gave us a hint to help us spell the word “privilege” correctly. ...

Have you seen this image yet?If not, can you guess which state it may be from? Believe it or not, ...

Do you know Mr. Moses? Mr. Bob Moses?I’ve always associated Bob Moses’s name with civil rights and, specifically, his well-known ...

The story of Passover, and the Exodus from Egypt, involves the oppressor (Pharaoh and the Egyptians) and the oppressed and ...

My Mississippi rabbinical colleague Rabbi Debra Kassoff and myself will both be making a bold statement this spring; more accurately, ...

Are we doing enough to nurture Jewish introverts?It’s a fair question. Jewish culture is often depicted as loud, full of ...

“In the Nazi concentration camps of Germany people had seen the end results of racism.”- Lee Lorch to New York ...