Whether we participated in the Community Engagement Fellowship or the Education Fellowship, we have each worn many hats over the past two years: professional schmoozer,…
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I was saying goodbye to a man who had met with me to discuss some things. It had been an uncomfortable meeting for me in…
Tema Smith is often mistaken for white, but this mixed-race Jew is proud of both her Bahamian and Ashkenazi roots. She is also one of…
On Monday, May 14, the new American Embassy opened in Jerusalem. On Monday, May 14, riots broke out on the Gaza border. On Monday, May…
“The first Jewish congregation in [Tennessee] was founded in 1851 in Bolivar, but lasted only a few years. The oldest existing Jewish congregation is in…
As Israel turns 70 this year, I can’t help but feel proud. It was hard for me to really understand what Israel was when I…
While perhaps we are more familiar with the destructive nature of earthquakes and hurricanes and tornados, since they occur more frequently and make the national…
Counting is a big part of our lives. We count the hours, the days, the months, or years, always counting down to the next thing:…
To all who care about the Jewish community and the Jewish future, let’s ban the phrase “non-Jew.” Let’s never again speak this phrase or even…
It’s been said many times – but is still true- that our society reveres the young and the beautiful, and fears age. It’s not surprising…
People often ask me where my family came from before the United States. I always proudly answer, “Greece.” Shocked, they respond, “Really? I didn’t know…
Jaime Permuth is a documentary photographer with an eye towards capturing communities and images “on the margins of mainstream society.” Raised in Guatemala, Permuth now…
“Let all who are hungry come and eat.” This year, as I sat at my family’s Passover seder in my hometown of Charleston, this was…
I recently had the opportunity to travel to Salt Lake City with a delegation of rabbis and Jewish leaders to meet with the leadership of…
On Passover, our collective memory kicks in. We remember that we were slaves in Egypt and celebrate our freedom from oppression. However, the reason we…
Step 1. Wrap your head around the idea of dyeing eggs. Maybe you need to think about how eggs are a sign of spring in…
I remember learning two things—and only two things—about Sephardic culture in Sunday School as a young child. First, Sephardic Jews come from Spain. Second, Sephardic…
Freedom is not taken away abruptly; it is eroded slowly. We not only see this in our current political reality here in the United States…
Celebrating Passover as a parent is a whole different experience. When I was in rabbinical school it was all about the rules: seder did not…
There was nothing typical about photographer Jaime Permuth’s Jewish childhood in Guatemala. Even so, Passover stood out among the holidays he experienced. In the first of two…
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