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Snapchat’s Top Rabbi
When the list of the top ten Jews you should follow on social media platform Snapchat came out this week ...
Camp Rabbi, Role Model, Match-Maker
This week rabbinic student Isaama Stoll is heading up to Camp Be’chol Lashon to teach Torah, pray and hang with other ...
On Being a Rabbi in Mississippi, Taking the Stand (Literally) Against Discrimination
When I began my position as Director of Rabbinic Services at the Institute of Southern Jewish Life just over two years ...
Notes from a 13-Year-Old Rabbi
Today I become an adult rabbi.This June marks my 13th year since ordination as a rabbi, and my 13th year ...
My Southbound Story: Student Rabbi Rob
As we prepare to welcome more than a half-dozen new Jewish professionals to Mississippi for internships and fellowships at the ...
How This “Running Rabbi” Found More Meaning in Miles
As a rabbi on staff at the ISJL, I travel around the South quite a bit. Recently, I had the ...
Reform and Transgender & Non-Gender Conforming Jews
The history of transgender and non-gender conforming people in the Reform Movement goes back further than we might initially realize. ...
Jamming in Jerusalem with My Landlady’s Husband
My name is Sandra Lawson, and I am rabbinical student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. I’m spending this semester in ...
We Don’t Count People… Because All People Count
Every few months, I receive a tentative “cold call” from a congregation interested in using the services of the ISJL ...
When I Lost Control, I Started to Lose Weight
There are lots of versions of this story, and while it would be just perfect if it were true, its ...