Archived News
March 28, 2023
By Lee J. Green Tradition, family, community and storytelling are central to Judaism and to the shining “Bright Star,” opening March 31 and running through April 16 at Birmingham’s Red Mountain Theatre. “I think this show says so much about community, family, love, hope and […]
March 24, 2023
A swastika was found on a long-abandoned hospital in Ensley, near Birmingham, last week, along with a painted banner from the white supremacist Patriot Front. The annual audit of antisemitic incidents in the United States hit an all-time high, with 3,697 incidents of assault, harassment […]
March 21, 2023
GatesFest 2022 Shabbat will go Broadway at Gates of Prayer in Metairie on March 31 as Cantorial Soloist Jordan Lawrence debuts her “Broadway Shabbat” service, blending show tunes with the Shabbat evening service. She will be joined by the Gates of Prayer choir and the […]
March 19, 2023
A statewide effort to collaborate on Alabama Jewish history is being launched with a July symposium, under the auspices of the Alabama Folklife Association. The first Alabama Jewish Culture and History Symposium will be held at Temple Beth Or in Montgomery on July 25 from […]
March 17, 2023
Participants in the July 2022 Israel trade mission An Innovation Embassy has been established between the Port of Ashdod in Israel and five business organizations in New Orleans, a result of last summer’s Louisiana trade mission to Israel. A letter of intent was signed in […]
March 10, 2023
Limmud New Orleans is back in person this month, for the first time in five years, with over 75 sessions on “anything and everything Jewish.” The pluralistic weekend of Jewish learning, open to all and held March 17 to 19, unites different congregations from New […]
March 10, 2023
N.E. Miles Jewish Day School students watching wax museum depiction of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson. By Kiara Dunlap If you wandered into Birmingham’s N.E. Miles Jewish Day School in late February, you might have “met” tennis star Serena Williams, civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, NASA […]
March 6, 2023
By Lee J. Green “Come From Away,” the touring Broadway musical which tells the remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and Gander, the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them, lands in Birmingham March 14 to 19 at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex. The 7,000 […]
March 5, 2023
With crime and the local judicial system “in crisis,” Simone Levine is running for Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Section A judge in the March 25 election as someone “who is going to know the courtroom from every angle” and use a community-based approach with […]