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While there was uncharacteristic uncertainty over the headliner of this year’s New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, there has been no such turmoil at Touro Synagogue, as the Grammy-winning Lost Bayou Ramblers will headline the 28th annual JazzFest Shabbat, with special guest Aurora Nealand. The […]

Photo courtesy GoFundMe page The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans and the Anti-Defamation League regional office in New Orleans issued a joint statement of solidarity with the three historically-black churches that were torched in central Louisiana in the past couple of weeks. The first […]

Veteran Israeli journalist Gil Hoffman will be in Birmingham for a series of talks, including a community-wide presentation at Knesseth Israel. Hoffman has been the chief political correspondent and analyst for The Jerusalem Post for 20 years. He teaches international communications at Israel’s College of […]

Jackson’s Beth Israel, home of the only full-time rabbinic pulpit in Mississippi, will have a new rabbi as of July 1, Rabbi Joseph Rosen. Rosen grew up in Rochester, Minn., where both of his parents work for the Mayo Clinic. “Their dedication to helping others […]

Agudath Achim in Shreveport announced that Rabbi Sydni Adler will become their next rabbi, starting June 17, and she will be moving to Shreveport with her fiancé, Rabbi Feivel Rubinstein. Adler will succeed Cantor Neil Schwartz. She will be ordained this May at the Ziegler […]

While Seders around the world welcome Elijah every year, Birmingham’s Sidney Conn is encouraging people to make room for someone else — Hadar Cohen. This is the fourth year that Conn has made that request to friends, as this is the fourth year that Cohen […]

Coach Bruce Pearl speaks at the opening ceremonies of the 2017 JCC Maccabi Games in Birmingham. File photo by Rabbi Barry Altmark In leading the Auburn Tigers to the first men’s basketball Final Four of any university in the state, Bruce Pearl also became only […]

Pending the congregation’s annual meeting next month, Rabbi Daniel Sherman will be the new senior rabbi at Temple Sinai in New Orleans, the congregation announced. The congregation’s search committee and board both voted unanimously to select him. “I feel very honored to become Temple Sinai’s […]

After the Alabama Holocaust Commission condemned the March 25 remarks by U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama, where he quoted portions of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” in a speech on the U.S. House floor, Brooks fired back at the commission, saying the commission “refuses to […]