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Mushky Cohen is in Huntsville because of a Japanese diplomat. Mushky and Rabbi Moshe Cohen established Chabad of Huntsville in 2015, following in the footsteps of her grandfather, who helped establish Chabad in Montreal — after being rescued from Europe by Chiune Sugihara. Rabbi Moshe […]

By Richard Friedman Fourteen time zones from Birmingham, Gary Perlman laughed and shook his head. No, he admitted over Zoom, he never could have envisioned living his adult life in Japan. Moreover, he never could have imagined that he would become a driving force behind a […]

Rabbi PJ Schwartz is returning to the South as the new rabbi at Temple B’nai Sholom in Huntsville, with a boost from the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Schwartz grew up in a small community in upstate South Carolina, where his synagogue in Greenville was […]

Rabbi Jonathan Jackson was selected as the new rabbi for Temple Emanu-El in Dothan. For the past year, Rabbi Michael Shields of Tallahassee has been the interim rabbi, since the retirement of Cantor Neil Schwartz in the summer of 2022. Shields said Jackson “has a […]

Seth Penn, Consul General Anat Sultan-Dadon and Chief Larry Smith at a November 2021 ceremony. The Alabama-Israel Task Force will honor Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker and Chief Larry Smith of the Cherokee Tribe of Northeast Alabama at an Alabama-Israel Leadership Gala honoring […]

Original “Survivors” featured in Birmingham, Pensacola commemorations Holocaust commemorations in Pensacola and Birmingham will feature “Survivors,” a play written by Deborah Layman based on the lived of six Birmingham Holocaust survivors. Layman recently moved to Pensacola. The six survivors in the play, along with other […]

Henry Kline Memorial Congregation building in Rolling Fork on April 1, as roof tarps cover the remaining houses in the area. Photo by Nadav Herman The March 24 tornado that devastated most of Rolling Fork was the third incident in as many months where a […]

In February, Cantor Rebecca Garfein of New York took part in a cantorial weekend at Temple Sinai in New Orleans. It looks like she will be staying a while. On March 28, the congregation announced that Garfein will become their next cantor, succeeding Cantor Joel […]

Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta. Credit: DXR via Wikimedia Commons. (JNS) — By the wee hours of the morning on March 30, a deadline came and passed without the Georgia State Senate voting on an antisemitism bill. Senators threw paper in the air like confetti […]