August

Graffiti outside Birmingham’s Temple Emanu-El Over Shabbat, two Birmingham synagogues were tagged with graffiti related to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case. “Epstein Must Be Avenged” was scribbled in chalk on the ground next to Temple Emanu-El and Temple Beth-El on Birmingham’s Southside. The community’s […]

Football is religion in the South, and few places have a higher concentration of faithful devotees than New Orleans, where even the team name has religious overtones. That can lead to the occasional religious conflict — this year, the Superdome matchup between the Saints and […]

Stuart and Suzanne Grant with son, Sam. Photo courtesy the Grant family. The largest-ever gift to the Tulane University Department of Jewish Studies is seen as putting Tulane on the path to be a leader in studying the American Jewish experience. The gift from Stuart […]