Community Engagement

Now that the Jewish fall holidays have been celebrated, I have had some time to reflect on some of the ...

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Since a peer-led health initiative is one of the programs I help coordinate, I ...

A week ago, a woman named Deb took her life in New Jersey. I learned about her death in an ...

Sukkot offers some incredible starting points for discussion. The Sukkot holiday begins tonight and lasts for a week. Among other things, ...

Where were you when the planes hit the towers? It’s a question people are asking and answering all day today, ...

August 28, 2013, marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “I Have ...

A recent New York Times online opinion essay, Beautiful Pathologies, got me thinking about the non-profit sector as a whole, ...

Every summer, the ISJL office is privileged to be one of the stops on the journey of teens participating in ...

Studying text is one way to gather knowledge and inspiration as we seek to live meaningful lives and work to improve ...

I was moved by a story I heard on NPR last week. Krista Tippet, host of NPR’s show “On Being,” ...