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  • Auburn wins historic battle of Jewish coaches in SEC tournament championship
    Auburn celebrates the SEC tournament championship. Photo by Zach Bland/Auburn Athletics The Southeastern Conference men’s basketball championship game turned into the Jewish coaches invitational. Fourth-seeded Auburn, coached by Bruce Pearl, defeated sixth-seed Florida, which is coached by Pearl’s former assistant, Todd Golden, 86-67, in Nashville […]
  • Delta resuming Israel flights from New York, no word yet on Atlanta
    Ben Gurion International airport on Aug. 29, 2023. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90. Delta Airlines announced on March 13 that it will resume daily flights to Tel Aviv from New York in June. The announcement comes one week after rival United Airlines became the first […]
  • Fans’ anti-Israel hostility in Glasgow forces Israeli star soccer player to leave for Charlotte
    Liel Abada, an Israeli footballer who has been sitting out games for his Scottish club amid fan protests of the war in Gaza, is joining Major League Soccer’s team in Charlotte. The team said on its website on March 7 that it had paid $8 […]
  • Becoming part of the community: Non-Jews leading Jewish institutions
    Brooke Bowles and Brian Cain By Richard Friedman They both are tall, friendly, energetic and passionate. They’ve each spent the bulk of their careers in fields different from what they are doing today. They are admired and valued. And they both have stepped forward to […]
  • Amidst Ala. IVF uncertainty, Jewish Fertility Foundation works to handle the legal twists
    Alabama Supreme Court building. Photo by Michael Barera/Wikipedia The controversial ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that stated frozen embryos are to be regarded as children in terms of their legal rights caused a frenzy of activity, from those whose in vitro fertilization procedures suddenly […]
  • Injury causes early end to Lior Berman’s final season at Auburn
    Lior Berman in Auburn’s March 2023 game against Tennessee. Courtesy Auburn athletics The Bermanator was on a roll, and now his season is over. Lior Berman, a 6-foot-4 guard for the Auburn University basketball team, suffered an ACL injury during the March 2 game against […]
  • “Violins of Hope” founder Amnon Weinstein dies
    Amnon Weinstein, an Israeli luthier who established the Violins of Hope as a musical remembrance of the Holocaust’s victims, died on March 5. He was 84. The Violins of Hope, many of which were played in the death camps by Jews who survived and many […]
  • Louisiana approves nitrogen gas executions, Jewish groups opposed measure
    Governor Jeff Landry signs 11 crime-fighting bills from the special session on March 5. On March 5, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed a bill making Louisiana the fourth state to allow executions using nitrogen gas. The approval comes a month after Alabama conducted the first-ever […]
  • Miami’s Schreer enjoys first national tour with Hadestown
    By Lee J. Green Fate might have played a small role in leading Hannah Schreer to playing one of the Fates in the traveling Broadway production of the “Hadestown” musical. The 2019 Tony-award-winning musical comes to the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex March 19 to 24. “It […]
  • James Carville’s dangerous rhetoric: If Biden loses, it’s Netanyahu’s fault
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. President Joe Biden in New York, Sept. 20. 2023. Credit: Cameron Smith/Official White House photo. By Caroline Glick (JNS) — In an appearance this week on MSNBC, veteran Democratic political strategist James Carville of Louisiana made a […]

FEATURED ARTICLES

August 7, 2023

The power of summer camp — and Southern Jewish communities

Henry S. Jacobs Camp Director Anna Herman helps campers board the buses on the last-minute HSJ Magical Mystery Tour One of the unheralded qualities necessary in Southern Jewish communities is the ability to pivot — but Jewish interconnectedness around the region often makes it easier. […]
June 23, 2023

Southern Jewish Life magazine expands with new online regional edition

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Southern Jewish Life magazine, which has covered the Jewish communities of the Deep South for over three decades, announced that it will be expanding with a new online edition covering the rest of the South. Starting with August 2023, Southern Jewish Life […]
August 26, 2022

Editorial: Jewish community needs to tell antisemitic Presbyterian Church (USA) goodbye

By Larry Brook, editor The Presbyterian Church (USA) has declared Israel’s creation to be a disaster, calls Israel an apartheid state, made an explicit comparison of Israel to Nazi Germany under the banner of “never again” and redefined antisemitism to encompass non-Jews. Why, then, is […]
November 11, 2020

Shedding light on the Light

Self-described “local” paper has almost no local reporting, wild circulation numbers — but plenty of ads from politicians and others thinking they are reaching the local Jewish community Editor’s Note: This piece won the national Boris Smolar Award for Excellence in Enterprise or Investigative Reporting, […]