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On Feb. 16, New Yorker Vanessa Hidary, also known as the “Hebrew Mamita,” will give two different performances at Ted’s Garage in Birmingham, sponsored by the Leah Marks Honor Our Children Fund of the Birmingham Jewish Foundation. The fund’s purpose is to encourage young people […]

In addition to the usual throws, anniversaries will be in the air for Mardi Gras groups with Jewish roots this year. On Feb. 19, the Krewe du Mishigas will once again march in the Krewe du Vieux Parade through the French Quarter. Each of the […]

The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience will be re-enacting part of the Southern Jewish experience — starting out in a small town and moving on to a larger home. In early January, the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life and the Union for Reform […]

The Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life has begun a webinar series, to provide adult education opportunities to anyone with a computer. Two webinars have been announced for each of the next two months. Information on the sessions and registration can be found at the […]

Rabbi Scott Hausman-Weiss, director of adult outreach at Birmingham’s Temple Emanu-El, has been named senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Houston, Tex. Hausman-Weiss has been at Birmingham’s Emanu-El for 11 years, establishing a wide range of new programming. The Houston congregation was established in 1944 […]

In 2003, Rabbi Jeffrey Ballon spoke at the Huntsville memorial to the Space Shuttle Columbia crew, which included Israeli Ilan Ramon Rabbi Jeffrey Ballon, who served Huntsville’s Temple B’nai Sholom from 2001 to 2009 before stepping down while battling brain cancer, died on Jan. 19. […]

For many in Alabama’s Jewish community, controversial exclusionary comments made by newly-inaugurated Governor Robert Bentley on Jan. 17 are only half the story, though it is the story that made its way around the world. The other half of the story is that within 48 […]

This Chanukah, the Levite Jewish Community Center hopes members will give themselves the gift of film as it hosts the first annual Birmingham Jewish Community Film Festival during Chanukah, Dec. 4 and 5. “We have a very unique, high-quality Jewish community in the Birmingham area. […]

Jackson’s Beth Israel Congregation has announced a preliminary schedule as it celebrates its 150th anniversary next year. The main event will be a Grand Celebration Weekend and homecoming reunion the weekend of Sept. 15. Past congregants, rabbis and youth group members will be welcomed back. […]