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George Rodrigue’s portrait of Shirley Ann Grau, 1983 Beginning in 1980, George Rodrigue painted the portrait of each year’s guest lecturer at what we now call the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The speaker series was conceived by Professor Maurice DuQuesnay and funded by the […]

It was 70 years ago when the world got its first look of film shot by the Allies in the Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Filmmakers John Ford (director of “The Grapes of Wrath”), George Stevens (famous for his Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movies and later […]

A book launch party is taking place November 4.  From Longue Vue: Visit Longue Vue House and Gardens for a panel discussion on its new book, featuring photographer Tina Freeman, and authors Carol McMichael Reese and Walter Stern. Discussion will begin at 4 p.m. in […]

Above: Honorees Richard Pizitz Jr., Raymond and Cynthia Tobias, Rabbi Elizabeth Bahar, General Charles Krulak and Rabbi Eytan Yammer at the Oct. 28 joint awards program of Israel Bonds, the Birmingham Jewish Federation and Birmingham Jewish Foundation. Photo by Rabbi Barry Altmark.  Around the South: […]

Above: Serving customers at the Friedman Family Foundation Jewish Food Festival, at Birmingham’s Levite Jewish Community Center, Oct. 11. Around the South: Week of Oct. 16, 2015 Southern Jewish Life is celebrating its 25th anniversary! The December issue will be a 25-year retrospective of SJL […]

Around the South: Week of Oct. 9, 2015 “Rosenwald,” a documentary about a partnership between Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, and Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute, will screen in the region this month (above). Through their efforts, 5400 “Rosenwald Schools” for blacks were built […]

Above: JNOLA held a family-friendly Safari in the Sukkah at Audubon Zoo in New Orleans on Sept. 30. Around the South: Week of Oct. 2, 2015 “Rosenwald,” a documentary about a partnership between Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, and Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute, […]

Above: Rabbi Steve Jacobs reads the first few lines of the Torah at the dedication of the Holocaust Torah at Temple Emanu-El, Tuscaloosa, on Sept. 20.  Around the South: Week of Sept. 25, 2015 Under pressure from some members, the Gordon Jewish Community Center in […]

Dothan’s Temple Emanu-El Sept. 20 is the annual memorial service date when it is traditional to visit cemeteries between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Most congregations have an organized time for visiting. Metairie’s Gates of Prayer will dedicate the new Plotkin Pavilion at the Joseph […]