politics

“We are not a country that should turn children away and send them back to certain death,” -Maryland Governor, Martin ...

One of the most pathetic (in the original sense of evoking pathos) passages in the Talmud is one (Bava Metzia ...

The confluence of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah seems to have brought more than the usual rush of madness to Hanukkah, which ...

As a synagogue rabbi, I feel as if we have been running a religious marathon for the past month. since. ...

Two articles posted earlier this week made reference to an individual  who had been born to a Jewish father and ...

This blog is written by Sam Gardner, who just finished his summer internship in the ISJL’s history department. The Neshoba ...

This post is written by Education Fellow Allison Poirier. I live in Mississippi now, but I remain a very proud native ...

A couple of weeks ago, Yair Rosenberg wrote a thought-provoking article in the online Tablet Magazine, entitled ‘America’s Anti-Gun Theocrats: ...

Some years ago, when I was president of Congregation B’nai Israel, in Northampton, Massachusetts, I wrote a short story I ...

Last week, my colleagues Rabbis Rebecca Sirbu and Ben Greenberg shared their opinions here about whether rabbis should talk about Israel, ...