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“100 Years of Collaborative Jewish Philanthropy in New Orleans” will be the theme of this year’s Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans annual meeting, Sept. 11 at the Uptown Jewish Community Center. The centennial celebration also incorporates the annual meeting of the Jewish Endowment Foundation […]

Rabbi Uri Topolosky officiates Havdalah during the dedication weekend of the new Beth Israel in Metairie, August 2012 (Editor’s Note: Updated Sept. 3 with comments by the author of the original JTA piece). Rabbi Uri Topolosky said he is “pained” by how an Aug. 26 […]

Editor’s note: This piece is in response to JTA’s piece of Aug. 26, “As School Crumbles, New Orleans Rabbi Leaves City.” We are working on an overall piece about the article and the reaction in New Orleans. By Sharon Pollin Head of School, Community Day […]

Editor’s note: This piece is part of our series, Not Just Black and White: Civil Rights and the Jewish Community. An article about the Rosh Hashanah sermon Rabbi Milton Grafman gave shortly after attending the funeral for three of the four girls is here. Internationally-renowned […]

Editor’s note: This is part of our series, Not Just Black and White: Civil Rights and the Jewish Community. The entire 39-minute sermon referenced in the article can be heard here. On Sept. 19, 1963, Rabbi Milton Grafman warned his congregants at Birmingham’s Temple Emanu-El that […]

Birmingham’s Temple Emanu-El will finish celebrating the centennial of its historic domed sanctuary with Selichot services on Aug. 24 at 7:30 p.m. Over the last century, several churches have been housed in the sanctuary for a variety of reasons — fires, renovations or new congregations […]

There are plenty of Jews with Super Bowl rings — coaches, executives, even owners. But one that was won by a player? Not quite as common. Alan Veingrad will talk about his experiences as a Super Bowl champion at the Chabad Jewish Center in Metairie […]

As part of Birmingham’s commemoration of the 50th anniversary of pivotal moments in the civil rights struggle, the Sidewalk Film Festival is coordinating a community-wide simultaneous screening of Spike Lee’s “4 Little Girls,” about the four girls who were killed in the Sept. 15, 1963, […]

Films about a great illustrator who escaped Nazi-occupied France, a breakdancing Bar Mitzvah boy and five Ukrainian Jewish families who lives in a cave for 511 days to escape World War II are among several of Jewish interest featured in the annual Sidewalk Film Festival, […]