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Jewish community agencies are looking to build on last year’s success in GiveNOLA Day, which will be on May 2. GiveNOLA Day is a 24-hour online fundraiser coordinated by the Greater New Orleans Foundation for non-profits in the greater New Orleans area. The 17 participating […]

Florina Newcomb looks out at the streets of Kishinev from her hotel room. Photo by Andrew Newcomb. By Richard Friedman Five thousand, five hundred and eighty-eight miles from Birmingham, 34 years after she left Moldova as a five-year-old girl, Florina Shilkrot Newcomb, a wife and mother of two, returned home. In 1989, she and her […]

Twenty years ago, the Lucille Beeson Trust of Canterbury Methodist Church provided startup funding that enabled Birmingham’s Collat Jewish Family Services to begin providing personal care services. From an initial 10 clients, the program, which provides services that enable older adults on limited incomes to continue living […]

By Mike Wagenheim (JNS) — Ahead of a visit to Israel by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the Sunshine State’s chief financial officer told JNS that Norway is out of line in considering divesting from the Jewish state. Jimmy Patronis, the Florida CFO, sent a […]

On April 14, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed Alabama Senate Joint Resolution 8, which honors the 75th anniversary of Israel, and reaffirms the bonds of friendship and cooperation between Alabama and Israel. The resolution also marks the 80th anniversary of the Alabama Legislature’s call in […]

Yaniv Perets. Source: Twitter/Yaniv Perets. (JNS) — Two Jewish players helped propel Quinnipiac University in Connecticut to a championship on April 8 in the Frozen Four — the ice-hockey equivalent of the Final Four. The winning goal, which came 10 seconds into overtime, came on […]

Cartoonist Al Jaffee 2016 New York Comic Con at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York. Credit: Luigi Novi via Wikimedia Commons. (JNS) — Al Jaffee, born Abraham Jaffee in 1921 in Savannah, Ga., died in New York City on April 10. The […]

Last July, there was a lot of celebrating Israel in Birmingham as the World Games athletes brought home a record haul of medals. Several events are planned in the region to celebrate Israel’s 75th birthday. Here are those we had as of press time: Year […]

Anthony Russell and Dmitri Gaskin Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell and Dmitri Gaskin perform as Tsvey Brider, “Two Brothers,” but they had very different paths to Jewish music. Russell, who became an opera singer after growing up in California, is now a pioneer in Yiddish music. […]