2021

The Chabad Jewish Center in Panama City Beach has signed a contract on a new facility that will be renovated and become the new Chabad Center. The new building is on Miracle Strip Loop, close to where they are currently renting a space. Rabbi Mendel […]

Transition: Outgoing board chair Joshua Force and incoming board chair Brian Katz. Photos by Donna Matherne The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans unveiled its new strategic plan at its annual celebration on Dec. 8 at the Audubon Tea Room. But that presentation and the […]

Rabbi Shlomo Litvin, co-director of Chabad of the Bluegrass, embraces a resident in one of Kentucky’s hard-hit areas after a series of tornadoes decimated homes and other buildings in parts of the state, December 2021. Source: Rabbi Sholom Litvin/Twitter. By Faygie Holt and SJL reports […]

Photo courtesy WWL-TV By Richard Friedman Discovering how his Jewish identity shapes TV journalist David Hammer’s award-winning investigative reporting takes some investigating. But if you dig you come to understand how his commitment to the Jewish concept of Tikkun Olam — repairing the world — […]

Israel’s president Isaac Herzog and Rebecca Gilbert at the recent Chanukah menorah lighting. It’s not every Chanukah that a young woman from Georgia who graduated from the University of Alabama gets to light candles with the president of Israel. Yet that was exactly the case […]

The Sherry and Alan Leventhal Family Foundation Center for Interfaith Families in New Orleans announced a partnership with 18Doors, along with a search for the Center’s next executive director. Launched in 2020, the Sherry and Alan Leventhal Center for Interfaith Families — an in-house initiative […]

Rami Elhanan, Laila Alsheikh and Herb Keinon By Richard Friedman As part of its webinar series “Looking Toward the Future,” the Louisiana Jewish Coalition delved into one of the most complex of issues, one fraught with emotion and tragedy, yet, at times, opportunity and even […]

Red Mountain Theatre Company paused rehearsal for the Holiday Spectacular so Jewish cast members London Pigott and Kat Senter could light the menorah on the first night of Chanukah By Lee J. Green The Festival of Lights will be in the spotlight at the Red […]

By Richard Friedman  Being a Jewish Federation director is no easy thing these days. It’s a complicated job that requires a range of skills in addition to having the ability to stay calm and clear-headed in a sea of emotional pulls. The Montgomery-based Jewish Federation of Central […]