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Lexi Erdheim, student rabbi at Gates of Prayer in Metairie, will be hanging around after graduation. Gates of Prayer President David Dulitz announced that Erdheim will become the congregation’s new assistant rabbi, after her upcoming ordination at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los […]

If you have fashion, you have to have stores to sell it. This year’s honoree at the Jewish Children’s Regional Service gala, “Jewish Roots of Fashion,” comes from a small town store that had a rich history. Betty Bloch Kohn has lived in New Orleans […]

Rabbi Perry Nussbaum display at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Fifty years after the first Freedom Seder was held in Washington, the Mississippi Freedom Seder will make its debut in Jackson. The Museum of Mississippi History, the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute […]

Pizmon, the co-ed pluralistic Jewish a cappella group from Columbia University, Barnard College and the Jewish Theological Seminary, will be in the region on an Alternative Spring Break concert tour this month. Established in 1987 as the first collegiate Jewish a capella group, Pizmon has […]

Yes, Waffles on Maple in New Orleans is still certified kosher. Confusion apparently arose because the original Uptown location of Waffles on Maple has changed certification, from the Louisiana Kashrut Commission to oversight by Rabbi Gabe Greenberg of the Orthodox congregation Beth Israel in Metairie. […]

Controversy swirled over Spain Park High School in Hoover, a Birmingham suburb, after a video went viral last weekend where students used slurs in talking about blacks and Jews. The video shows students drinking at a party that was not on school property. After one […]

Here is a list of Purim events in the region: Alabama Anniston’s Temple Beth El will have a Purim service with Rabbi Lauren Cohn on March 15 at 7:30 p.m. Birmingham’s Knesseth Israel will have a Hawaiian Purim, March 20, with the megillah reading at […]

After a month and a half of controversy, Angela Davis spoke in Birmingham on Feb. 16, though in a much larger venue than originally planned. Her appearance was the culmination of a long saga of twists and turns, after the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute announced […]

While anti-Israel groups condemn police best practices training and exchanges with Israel, many law enforcement groups have stepped forward to rebuke such attacks. A major group organizing such trips is the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange, which is based at Georgia State University. The Anti-Defamation […]