November

Stephanie Levin blows the shofar with preschoolers at the New Orleans JCC After working in the Jewish Community Center world in California for over two decades, Stephanie Levin wants to see the New Orleans JCC become even more open and welcoming to all. Levin became […]

By Lee J. Green Katie Holmes has come home to Birmingham just in time for the holidays. And one of the budding young stars the Red Mountain Theatre Resident Music Director will work with in the Holiday Spectacular from Dec. 1 to 18 will be […]

Just in time for Chanukah shopping, Lee Michaels Fine Jewelry has opened its new flagship store in Metairie, outside Lakeside Shopping Center. At 10,000 square feet, the freestanding store is more than twice the size of the store that was inside the mall since 1996. […]

By Lee J. Green SEC basketball moved closer to a “coaches’ minyan” with Todd Golden leading the Florida Gators and joining Auburn Coach Bruce Pearl, as well as his son/assistant coach Steven Pearl and newly-hired graduate assistant Geoff Gray. Golden became the Gators’ head man […]

Judge Monet Gaines swears in Phillip Ensler as a member of the Alabama Legislature on Nov. 9 outside Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church For the first time in almost 50 years, Alabama will have a Jewish state legislator, with the Nov. 8 election of […]

Moroccan Parliamentarian Ibtissame Ezzaoui, Bahraini Fatema Alharbi, City Council President Wardine Alexander, Mayor Randall Woodfin, Israeli Consul General Anat Sultan-Dadon, Councilor Darrell O’Quinn and Sharaka Global Affairs Director Dan Feferman plant the Peace Tree in Birmingham on Nov. 2. During the World Games in July, […]

From staff and JNS reports Elaine Luria, who grew up in Birmingham’s Jewish community, lost her bid for re-election in Virginia’s second Congressional district, after the district was redrawn to make it much more Republican. In conceding the race, she said “We set out to […]

Robert French has been named the new CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans. The current executive director of Jewish El Paso and The Jewish Community Foundation of El Paso, French will succeed Arnie Fielkow, who is retiring at the end of the […]

2013 photo by Michael Hebert/New Orleans Saints Former New Orleans Saint Junior Galette has added his name to the long list of people speaking out about the Kyrie Irving antisemitism controversy — but on Irving’s side, and adding his own antisemitic tweets to the mix. […]