2018

Why yes, it does seem like the Bloom Hillel Student Center at the University of Alabama dedicated its building just yesterday. Six years after the Bloom Hillel at the University of Alabama opened the doors of its new facility, a ceremonial groundbreaking was held on […]

The next chapter in Alon Shaya’s culinary journey will unfold in the next few months with the opening of two new Israeli restaurants — Saba in New Orleans and Safta in Denver. After several months of his new company, Pomegranate Hospitality, doing events in the […]

John Ives, Kerry Bleiberg, Elana Hagler, Rabbi Scott Kramer and Joy Blondheim at the Jan. 28 ceremony Rabbi Scott Kramer of Agudath Israel-Etz Ahayem stepped to the podium at Temple Beth Or on Jan. 28 with a bit of an apology. “This event is only […]

AlabamaThe joint Temple Beth-El and Emanu-El Purim in Birmingham will be at Emanu-El this year, Feb. 28 at 6 p.m. Cantor Jessica Roskin and Sarah Metzger will lead Beatles musical interludes during the megillah reading. There will be dinner and a costume contest. The religious […]

This month, Michele Schipper will quietly move down the hall at the Jackson headquarters of the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life. Having served as the Institute’s Chief Operating Officer since 2007, Schipper will become the Chief Executive Officer on Feb. 19, succeeding Macy Hart, […]

As a child, Julian Preisler was fascinated by a large painting at Temple Israel in Columbus, Ohio, depicting their “old” building. An architecture and history buff at the age of 10, he also had religious school classes at Agudas Achim, which was closer to where […]

By Jerome B. GordonSpecial to Southern Jewish Life Freshman Northwest Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz suddenly finds himself defending a ticket he gave to a controversial alt-right news troll and alleged Holocaust denier, Charles “Chuck” Johnson. After inviting Johnson to sit in the Congressional visitors […]

Mississippi Speaker Pro Tempore Greg Snowden, Governor Phil Bryant, Israeli Consul General Lior Haiat, Treasurer Lynn Fitch and Attorney General Jim Hood at an America-Israel Friendship League event in Meridian on Sept. 28 Legislation in Mississippi that would prohibit state fund investments in and state […]

As the new director of rabbinic services for the Jackson-based Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life, Aaron Rozovsky will draw on experiences from a one-year deployment to Afghanistan with the Military Police. There, he learned how to create meaningful Jewish experiences out of whatever he […]