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Editor’s Note: This piece is part of a series of articles, “Not Just Black and White: The Jewish Community and the Civil Rights Era.” Eighty years ago this month, nine black youths were arrested in Scottsboro, and the subsequent miscarriage of justice would spark the […]

Ramah Darom, the Conservative movement’s summer camp in north Georgia, is being commended for how it has handled a flu outbreak over the last week. About 60 campers and staffers have come down with flu symptoms. Three samples selected and tested by the Georgia Public […]

New Orleans will be one of the communities featured in the Orthodox Union’s upcoming “Emerging Communities: Job and Home Relocation Fair,” to be held June 14 in New York. The Fair comes on the heels of last year’s successful “Emerging Communities Fair,” in which residents […]

New Orleans will welcome two major events with Union of Reform Judaism leadership this month. On June 12, the URJ will hold its board meeting in New Orleans, and that night URJ President Rabbi Eric Yoffie will speak at the community’s joint summer Shabbat service. […]

The partnership between Birmingham and Rosh Ha’ayin will be recognized this summer by Sister Cities International at its annual convention in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Birmingham and Rosh Ha’ayin became official sister cities in 2005, though the Birmingham Jewish community has a relationship with Rosh Ha’ayin […]

Dr. Scott Cowen, president of Tulane University, will be presented with the Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, at the graduation ceremonies for Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati on June 7. Cowen will deliver the graduation address to the Class of 2009, at the Isaac […]

The April 19 board meeting for Beth Israel along the Mississippi Gulf Coast was anything but routine. Over three and one-half years since Hurricane Katrina slammed ashore, rendering the Beth Israel building in Biloxi unusable, the congregation met in its own building for the first […]

University of Southern Mississippi history graduate student Meghan Waldow of Floral Park, N.Y., has been named a fellow of the Auschwitz Jewish Center, founded by Elie Wiesel. The fellowship will give Waldow the opportunity to study in Poland to explore the country’s rich Jewish heritage […]

(Editor’s Note: This article won a first place Rockower Award for Excellence in News Reporting from the American Jewish Press Association.) An attempt to broaden the scope of a children’s holiday parade in Mobile last month backfired on organizers, who were shocked to see their […]