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Members and alumni of Young Judaea, the Zionist youth movement of Hadassah, are organizing a Caravan for Katrina that will bring four 24-foot trucks to communities around the eastern United States, with the ultimate destination being a United Way relief center in Jackson. Two trucks […]

Anne Rice isn’t your typical Shabbat evening speaker, and her latest book, “Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt” might not seem to be a normal discussion topic at a synagogue. That is, until one hears of Rice’s work in researching first-century Judaism to provide an […]

After Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Cotton States region of the B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, members of the international youth group mobilized in response. The region, which includes Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas, started a national campaign encouraging the 500 BBYO chapters nationally to […]

After about six weeks, the Jacobs Ladder relief project in Utica, Miss., has closed up shop. The project was housed in a warehouse in Utica and was the idea of Jonathan Cohen, director of the Union of Reform Judaism’s Henry S. Jacobs Camp. Congregations across […]

Rabbi Yisroel Shiff, who has led Beth Israel in New Orleans for four years, has announced his resignation effective Nov. 1, to take a teaching position in New Jersey. Since the hurricane, he has been living in Memphis. Beth Israel, located in Lakeview, was flooded […]

The award-winning documentary “Shalom Y’all,” about a third-generation Southern Jew from New Orleans in search of his roots, is being made available by the filmmaker to be used in fundraisers for Hurricane Katrina relief. Brian Bain left for Dallas before the storm hit. A month […]

With its destroyed synagogue on the front pages of High Holy Day issues of Jewish newspapers nationwide, members of New Orleans’ Beth Israel assembled for an emotional Yom Kippur service at the Comfort Inn in Kenner. Helping comfort the 45 in attendance was the return […]

The show must go on, and the fifth annual installment of Jewish Cinema South is gearing up for Jewish film festivals in four cities in early November. There are two films that will be shown in three of the four cities. The list of screenings […]

November will mark the 18th anniversary of the Jay Mosow Memorial Delta Jewish Golf Open, a fundraiser and “family reunion” for the Jewish communities in the Mississippi Delta. Sponsored by members of the Hebrew Union Congregation in Greenville, the tournament has raised over $65,000 for […]