Personal Reflections

Along with the rest of the world, particularly, the interconnected collective family known as “the Jewish community,” our hearts broke ...

This week, as I perused the internet, I stumbled upon a quiz entitled “Where You Belong: Your State Personality.”It involved ...

Golf. A sport usually reserved for the hoighty toighty, and/or generally older crowd. A sport where people ride in little ...

 November 9, 2013, marks the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass.” It is the night many point ...

“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” — Victor HugoThis ...

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

Below, Michele Schipper explains why she lets her kids trick-or-treat. To hear from another Jewish mom with a different perspective, ...

This blog post was written by ISJL Education Fellow Missy Goldstein. It is almost without fail that calling my Bubbe leads ...

On Yom Kippur this year, the few remaining families of the 161-year old congregation of B’nai El in St. Louis, ...

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