Southern

Late this past fall, I received a special invitation in my inbox. Surrounded by bright pink, blue and yellow polka dots, ...

Over the summer, I traveled to Greenville, Mississippi for one of my Education Fellow visits to Hebrew Union Congregation. Before ...

Around Thanksgiving, my baby girl had the first continuous cough we had ever experienced (thanks, daycare!) and, just to be ...

I’ve been joking this year that with Hanukkah starting on Christmas Eve, our holiday doesn’t have a chance to compete ...

Last month, 150 members of the Southern Jewish Historical Society gathered for their 41st annual conference. Even for a group ...

As I’ve written about before, music has been a huge part of my life and my Judaism ever since I ...

I come from a family of talented women—women who are “makers,” who always seemed to have a needle in their ...

Throughout history, Jews have had many names, including one of my favorites: The People of the Book. We have a ...

This is the third installment in my three-part series on “becoming Southern and Jewish.”After “coming out” as Jewish in the ...

For me, it’s the river that won my heart.In the summer of 2007, I was traveling in a hot van ...