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While Nick Saban and his wife Terry been active philanthropically, especially through their Nick’s Kids and with Catholic causes in Tuscaloosa, including the University of Alabama student Catholic Center being named for them, what does the retirement of arguably the greatest coach in college football […]

By Cantor Michael J. Zoosman The state of Alabama inadvertently has chosen a Jewish holiday for its first-ever experimental gassing to death. On Jan. 25 of this year, while many in the Jewish world mark Tu B’Shevat in the Hebrew calendar, Alabama will gas a […]

By Lee J. Green Nicole Lamb can’t wait to take the magic carpet back to the Magic City. The Birmingham native returns home with the national Broadway tour of Disney’s “Aladdin,” coming to the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex, Jan. 24 to 28. “I saw so many […]

Update: After weather forced postponement of the original date, the event was moved to April 11. Tickets are available here. Just after King Weekend, the Birmingham Jewish community will host a performance on Jan. 16 of a new one-man show about the close relationship between […]

A conversation between an orthopedist and one of his patients in 2012 turned out to be life changing for both of them, and they will talk about it at two programs in the region in January. “Corresponding Angles” is the story of a Holocaust survivor’s […]

Garth Potts, second from left, visited the LJCC in February 2022, and is pictured here with son Gabe Potts (center), and (left to right) Kirsten “Coach K” Thomas, Barbara Traweek and Ruth Nomberg. Photo courtesy LJCC Facebook. Garth Potts, who led Birmingham’s Levite Jewish Community […]

In 2018, Ned Goldberg was honored at the JCRS annual Jewish Roots gala for his then-30 years of service to the agency. Ned Goldberg, who was the face of the Jewish Children’s Regional Service for over three decades before stepping down as executive director in […]