History
No Trick, All Treat: Halloween Isn’t Bad for The Jews
Today’s guest post is from our friend (and one of our favorite scholars!) Dr. Joel M. Hoffman. Last year, we ...
Getting to Know (Jewish) Natchez
Last week, I was on the road with TENT, a week-long traveling seminar on culture, history, and social justice for ...
A Phone Call From a Man Named Spike
Fully capturing the essence of Jewish life across the South can be tricky, especially in towns without a formal congregation. ...
Interfaith Collaboration: A Southern Tradition
This past week, two of my co-workers and I attended an interesting lecture by Reverend Ben Matin at Millsaps College, ...
A Historian’s First Trip to the Jewish Delta
What’s “new” for this historian? Well, at the moment, we are in the process of updating the Mississippi entries for ...
An Ancient Oath Renewed for Labor Day
Often reality is stranger than fiction; The vote for one of the first major strike in American history was taken ...
A Different Kind of Jewish “Movement”
“Do you live in the same place where you were raised?” The ISJL’s founder, Macy B. Hart, likes to ask ...
Bleed Through, a Novel by Ayin Weaver
We’re grateful to Ayin Weaver for sharing a behind the scenes look at the inspiration for her debut novel, Bleed Through. Bleed ...
Blessing the Shabbat Lights – A “Modern” Jewish Ritual
The quintessential image of home, holiness, and Jewish motherhood is that of a woman blessing the Shabbat candles, performing a ...
Owning Our Heritage: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
“To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting America’s origins in a slavery economy is patriotism a’ la carte.” A recent ...