Community Engagement
7 Things I’ve Learned in Mississippi
Today’s post comes from Linnea Hurst, the ISJL’s Community Engagement Department intern this summer. I am from Portland, Oregon, and ...
Remembering Medgar Evers
June 12 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Medgar Evers, the first NAACP field secretary for the state ...
In Our Own Backyard: Pursuing Justice, Fighting Fundamentalism
Jay Michaelson, a contributing editor to The Forward, recently wrote an article about the dangers of fundamentalism within Judaism. In my ...
Answering the Call: Responding to Suicide and Depression in Our Communities
“Crisis Line. May I help you?” This is how I answer the phone at a local crisis center here in ...
Shavuot & Giving: Taking the Time to Get It Right
The holiday of Shavuot demonstrates a method of gift giving that we may want to deploy when thinking about advancing ...
Privilege & Oppression, Part II
Recently, the Governor of Mississippi, Phil Bryant, signed the Mississippi Student Religious Liberties Act. On Governor Bryant’s website, the student ...
The Scottsboro Boys Revisted
Last week, the Alabama House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill setting up a procedure to pardon the Scottsboro Boys, ...
Privilege & Oppression
We recently finished celebrating Passover, a holiday where “oppression” is an ongoing theme (and freedom, of course, is our cause ...
Living the Dream: Remembering Dr. King
Today marks the 45th anniversary of the tragic assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the balcony of ...
Is Reading Enough?
Jews across the world are preparing to sit down with their families and read the Haggadah this Passover. Although this is ...