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Alabama Senator Greg Albritton Alabama legislators are being criticized for bringing the Holocaust into their bills that are being considered in the current regular legislative session. Sen. Greg Albritton and Rep. Terri Collins both filed bills in their respective chambers, which if passed would make […]

This summer, Rabbi Joshua Pernick will become the new rabbi at Metairie’s Beth Israel, but for a preview, there is a meet and greet there on April 28 at 7 p.m. He will succeed Rabbi Gabe Greenberg at New Orleans’ modern Orthodox congregation after being […]

Several Jewish organizations in the New Orleans area will participate in this year’s GiveNOLA Day, a midnight-to-midnight online fundraising day that takes place on May 7. Now in its sixth year, almost 700 non-profits participate in GiveNOLA, and last year almost $5.6 million was raised […]

Le Petit Theatre in New Orleans is featuring “The Pianist of Willesden Lane” in May, starring internationally acclaimed pianist and storyteller Mona Golabek. Based on the book “The Children of Willesden Lane” by Golabek and Lee Cohen, the play is set in Vienna in 1938 […]

by Lee J. Green Rick Desloge grew up in the Jewish community in St. Louis, went to school in Indiana and lives in New York City, but he’s every bit a Jersey boy. Desloge plays Joe Pesci, Hal Miller, a deejay and even a French […]

At the December 2018 scholarship presentation: The Jones family, Sam, Mark and Beth, administrators of the Link estate; Arkansas Tech President Robin E. Bowen; Jeff Woods, dean of the College of Arts and Humanities; David Blanks, head of the Department of History and Political Science. […]

With Macy Hart at the April 6 gala were Michele Schipper, Jackson; Joel Ashner,  Memphis; Patti Micklin, Louisville, Col.; Rachel Reagler Schulman, Highland Park, Ill. In a career going back to the 1960s, Macy Hart has been the face of the Southern Jewish experience. On […]

Riva Hirsch speaks at Auburn University at Montgomery’s commemoration on April 11. Temple Emanu-El, the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center, and two other Southern communities, Augusta and Savannah, have partnered to bring Alexandra Senfft to speak. She will be at Emanu-El on April 25 at 5:45 […]

Graphic from the conference website As an alumnus of the University of Virginia, throwing shade at the University of North Carolina or Duke University is something that comes naturally (*cough* March Madness), and is generally reciprocated. Of course, it’s all in good fun. Mostly. But […]