Charleston’s Jewish ghosts

An ode to the city as we prepare to move back north.

As we prepare to move back to the Washington, D.C. area, I’ve been thinking about our past 14 months in Charleston. It’s been an adventure with new friends, a lot more bugs, alligators, palm trees and many more beaches. But it’s also been isolating from family and close friends, and art museums are hard to come by here.

I recently published a feature article upon which I’ve been working on-and-off since we moved here titled “With 275 years of ghosts, Charleston’s Jewish leaders bullish on its future.”

The piece appears in JNS, where I have been U.S. news editor for the past nearly 18 months.

It was nice to spend some time downtown—something I wasn’t able to do for our first year here because of our intense schedules—and to visit a Reform synagogue celebrating its 275th birthday, a historic Jewish cemetery with graves dating back to the Revolutionary War and to visit some of the formerly-Jewish sites in the city.

Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim. My photo.