Plattner, who volunteers once a month to lead meditations for current and former cancer patients, says that the light she often evokes is like a channel that brings down Hashem’s goodness.

As most college students consider themselves “progressive,” Jewish college students are trying to understand how they fit into the idea of what they thought was a liberal democracy.

To make the mikvah’s building as beautiful physically as it is spiritually, Mikvah Esther is launching a complete rebuilding of every square inch of its 50-year-old space. 

While long needed in the community, where people are too far to walk to the city’s other mikvahs, YINBH’s basement mikvah has been in the works since 2006, when the concrete for the mikvah’s floor was first poured, Dunner told the Journal.

Sanderson would like to create a community that tackles the issues that face Jews in the South, including a lack of identity and antisemitism.  

Thanks to a handful of Jewish artists, colorful and joyful paintings that depict mitzvot such as giving tzedakah, learning Torah and lighting Shabbos candles greet pedestrians and drivers around Pico-Robertson.