2018

Temple Emanu-El, Dothan (SJL file) By Rabbi Lynne Goldsmith In July 2007, I accepted the position of rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Dothan. I was a bit nervous. Here I was, a Yankee from Connecticut, moving to the Deep South, wondering if I would be […]

Governor Phil Bryant and Consul General Lior Haiat visit the Elvis Inn, near Jerusalem In November, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant made his fourth trip to Israel in five years, leading a 20-member trade delegation and speaking at the third Jerusalem Leaders Summit. Bryant was presented […]

Update: On Jan. 4, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute announced that the award dinner has been cancelled, an updated story about the cancellation and reaction is here. Each year, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute has an event to present its highest honor, the Fred Shuttlesworth […]

While many Jewish fashion designers have become household names, like Isaac Mizrahi and Michael Kors, the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts at the University of Alabama at Birmingham will host an exhibit about a designer who never got that chance, because she was murdered […]

In the days before America’s Nov. 6 midterm elections, amid growing political strife and divisiveness within the U.S., veteran Israeli journalist Herb Keinon spoke in Alabama. Keinon, diplomatic correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, has covered more than his fair share of divisiveness and strife in […]

After 11 years leading Touro Synagogue in New Orleans, Rabbi Alexis Berk is leaving the congregation next summer to take the pulpit at what she describes as the only place she would leave New Orleans for. Berk will become senior rabbi at Temple Solel in […]

The wall at Northshore Jewish Congregation that had been spray painted with swastikas and neo-Nazi symbols in October has been spray painted again. But this time, it’s all good. Considering the graffiti “a domestic terror attack,” Metairie artist Laurie Alan Browne approached the congregation with […]

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards at signing of collaboration agreement between the Water Institute of the Gulf in Baton Rouge and Israel’s Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, at Ben Gurion University on Oct. 29. At the end of October, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards spent […]

Israeli Consul General Lior Haiat from the Miami Consulate, at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, while accompanying Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant on a trade mission to Israel in mid-November. Against a backdrop of the people of Israel facing an onslaught of deadly rockets, fired by […]