2014

This year’s Limmud New Orleans, a regional weekend of Jewish learning for all ages and all levels of knowledge, reflects a trans-denominational approach in the local community. The volunteer-led weekend brings together Jews of all background for a celebration of Jewish culture, arts, learning and […]

Rabbi Valerie Cohen, who has led Beth Israel in Jackson for 11 years, will become the senior rabbi at Temple Emanuel Sinai in Worcester, Mass., this summer. Her husband, Jonathan Cohen, will also step down as director of the Reform movement’s Henry S. Jacobs Camp […]

Editor’s Note: A version of this editorial originally appeared in our publication in September 2001, during the Judge Roy Moore monument dispute at the Alabama Supreme Court building. It has been updated slightly to refer to events today. The original piece won the 2001 Simon […]

Lazarus and Sara Straus in Talbotton, ca. 1856, Courtesy of the Straus Historical Society The Jewish history of the Chattahoochee Valley will be featured at the Columbus Museum in Georgia this year with “Shalom Y’all: The Valley’s Jewish Heritage.” Rebecca Bush, the museum’s history curator, […]

More photos available here. There are some people who practically live at the synagogue. In New Orleans, it will soon be possible to live in a former synagogue. Gregg Morris is turning the former Shaare Tefillah building, which dates back to the 1860s, into one- […]

On March 31, Mississippi Rabbis Debra Kassoff and Matt Dreffin will shave their heads, along with dozens of their colleagues from across the country. The “36 Rabbis Shave for the Brave” is in memory of “Superman Sam,” the son of Rabbis Phyllis and Michael Sommer […]

(Updated Jan. 30) Above: Students, parents and faculty have a sudden sleepover at Birmingham’s N.E. Miles Jewish Day School. The sudden snowstorm that hit central Alabama on Tuesday morning caught everyone by surprise, and the Jewish community was no different, with some synagogues, Chabad, the […]

In February, a student from Birmingham’s Jewish community will be presenting an exhibit at the University of Alabama chronicling an unpleasant chapter in the university’s history — slavery. For a year and a half, senior Benjamin Flax has been researching slavery at the university as […]

The University of Alabama at Birmingham now has a new Hillel chapter. On Jan. 23, the Jewish Student Association at UAB received word that their application to Hillel International had been approved. A year ago, as anti-Israel activity ramped up on campus, some Jewish students […]