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Pictured: Oak Grove School, Prairieville, Alabama A century ago, a 50th birthday celebration for a northern Jewish philanthropist would initiate a tremendous legacy for generations of African-Americans throughout the South. This month, a large-scale effort to preserve that legacy will be undertaken with the first-ever […]

AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps will celebrate four years of activism in New Orleans with its first Partners in Justice Jazz Brunch this month. AVODAH works to strengthen the Jewish community’s fight against poverty and the issues that cause poverty. Members serve on the staff […]

The Louisiana legislature passed a House concurrent resolution by Rep. Valarie Hodges of the East Baton Rouge area that “expresses support for the people of Israel and for their right to live in freedom and to defend themselves and extends best wishes to the people […]

Maccabi USA announced that Preston Goldfarb of Birmingham will be head coach of the United States Open Men’s Soccer team at the 19th World Maccabiah Games in Israel, July 2013. Abby Richter of Stow, Ohio, will coach the women’s team. Goldfarb was the head coach […]

The small town of Sylvania in northeast Alabama is under fire from the Freedom From Religion Foundation because the town’s welcome signs display a verse from the Christian Bible. In April, the foundation threatened to sue the city of 1400 over the verse. Then-mayor Mitchell […]

Christians United for Israel will have three major events in the region this month, promoting solidarity between Christian friends of Israel and the Jewish community. CUFI is one of the largest pro-Israel organizations in the U.S., with over 900,000 members. After the April “60 Minutes” […]

Shlomo Bachar, classic master choreographer of Israeli dance, will visit Birmingham and New Orleans next week and offer workshops. A fifth-generation Sabra, Bachar has taught at universities and formed numerous dance theaters and camps. While in the Israeli army, he was in charge of an […]

In “Mighty Fine,” filmmaker Debbie Goodstein does a “gefilte fish out of water” semi-biographical story, taking a Jewish family where the mother is a Holocaust survivor, and moving them from Brooklyn to New Orleans in 1974. For the cast and crew, filming in New Orleans […]

Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman takes on Jerry Schnader last night A large emphasis at Birmingham’s Levite Jewish Community Center is physical fitness and overall wellness, so this year’s LJCC fundraising gala had a theme that came from that department. Students of the LJCC’s Juarez […]