2022

By Richard Friedman  When you can’t get a book out of your mind, the author has done a great job. Rose Barbara Gitenstein, who grew up as one of about 15 Jews in Florala, a tiny dot on the map along the Alabama side of the Alabama-Florida […]

Coach Bruce Pearl addresses students at Neville Arena at Auburn Students from eight Orthodox high schools from across the country held a Shabbaton and basketball tournament — at Auburn University. The National Council of Synagogue Youth, a division of the Orthodox Union, and Athletes for […]

It’s time to show up and show out. Chanukah is a time when there are numerous high-profile, public events. This year, it’s time to embrace those events and show up. That may seem to go against the grain. There are numerous articles about people in […]

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, […]