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A candidate for Alabama attorney general in the Democratic primary has stated that the United States military should “wipe Israel off the map… then come home and export a little payback to Mexico.” Larry Darby, former head of the Montgomery-based Atheist Law Center, is also […]

New Orleans is known internationally for Mardi Gras and JazzFest. Could Jewish music be next in line? At the inaugural New Orleans International Jewish Music Festival, talk was already turning to next year. The festival, which was held on April 1 and 2, was the […]

Rabbi Irwin Kula, who visited Baton Rouge and New Orleans for a series of programs on healing and recovery in December, will return to Baton Rouge on May 9. The president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, Kula will be the speaker […]

Richard Friedman, executive vice president of the Birmingham Jewish Federation, will be honored at the 38th annual National Conference for Community and Justice Brotherhood and Sisterhood Awards Dinner. Friedman has headed the Federation for 25 years. In a letter to the community, several Jewish supporters […]

A three-month slate of Holocaust education events gets underway in Birmingham, with an unprecedented collaboration of the Birmingham Museum of Arts, Civil Rights Institute and Jewish organizations. The events center on two exhibits opening at the museum and the Civil Rights Institute. Numerous other events […]

The Jewish community of Birmingham is reaching out to churches that have been affected by this month’s rash of arsons in rural parts of the state. Ten churches burned in three separate sprees between Feb. 3 and Feb. 14. All of the churches have been […]

With only a few dozen families to draw from, attendance at adult education classes at Dothan’s Temple Emanu-El can be sparse. In 1996, Rabbi Larry Mahrer got permission from the board to open classes to the entire Dothan area. Two years later, he started teaching […]

As part of the effort to revitalize Jewish life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the Gary Rosenthal Collection’s Hiddur Mitzvah Project, Moment Magazine and the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans are coordinating the inaugural New Orleans International Jewish Music Festival. The list of […]

By Larry Luxner BILOXI, Miss. (JTA) – Southern Mississippi’s Jewish population has suddenly mushroomed — at least for the next week or so — as 135 members of the campus organization Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life fan out through the area, repairing roofs […]