A swastika was found on a long-abandoned hospital in Ensley, near Birmingham, last week, along with a painted banner from the white supremacist Patriot Front. The annual audit of antisemitic incidents in the United States hit an all-time high, with 3,697 incidents of assault, harassment […]

GatesFest 2022 Shabbat will go Broadway at Gates of Prayer in Metairie on March 31 as Cantorial Soloist Jordan Lawrence debuts her “Broadway Shabbat” service, blending show tunes with the Shabbat evening service. She will be joined by the Gates of Prayer choir and the […]

Limmud New Orleans is back in person this month, for the first time in five years, with over 75 sessions on “anything and everything Jewish.” The pluralistic weekend of Jewish learning, open to all and held March 17 to 19, unites different congregations from New […]

N.E. Miles Jewish Day School students watching wax museum depiction of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson. By Kiara Dunlap If you wandered into Birmingham’s N.E. Miles Jewish Day School in late February, you might have “met” tennis star Serena Williams, civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, NASA […]

By Lee J. Green “Come From Away,” the touring Broadway musical which tells the remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and Gander, the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them, lands in Birmingham March 14 to 19 at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex. The 7,000 […]

With crime and the local judicial system “in crisis,” Simone Levine is running for Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Section A judge in the March 25 election as someone “who is going to know the courtroom from every angle” and use a community-based approach with […]

By Richard Friedman and Keila Lawrence The Birmingham Times, a historic newspaper serving Birmingham’s Black community; Southern Jewish Life magazine and its sister publication, Israel InSight magazine, and Miles College, an HBCU in Fairfield, have come together to create a joint journalism internship for a […]

Diana Mann with her daughter Amelia, appx. 1996. When the gala committee for Jewish Children’s Regional Service was brainstorming ideas for this year’s fundraiser, nothing really excited the group — until someone suggested Jewish sleep-away camp. Most of the organizers had been to camp themselves, […]

Eight of the ten founders of the new AEPi chapter at Tulane University, which has already grown to nearly 30 members. Pictured (from left to right): Ryan Orlov, Max Rosenberg, Simon Miller, Charlie Eckstein, Emmet Tanzar, Ben Gladstone, and Zach Sturza. Not pictured: Aaron Malamed […]

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.). Source: Twitter. (JNS) — The Pew Research Center reports that 33 Jewish lawmakers were sworn into the new 118th Congress. Newly-elected Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) stands out, having identified on the campaign trail both as Congress’ first “Messianic Jew” […]