March 14, 2019

Erdheim staying at Gates of Prayer as assistant rabbi

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 […]
March 13, 2019

JCRS honoring Betty Kohn at Jewish Roots gala

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 […]
March 12, 2019

Two Mississippi Museums hosting 50th anniversary Freedom Seder

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 […]
March 10, 2019

Pizmon to perform throughout New Orleans, Mississippi

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 […]
March 8, 2019

Nola’s Waffles on Maple still kosher, changes certification

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. […]
March 8, 2019

Student video with anti-Jewish, anti-black slurs goes viral

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 […]
March 8, 2019

Purim in the Deep South

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 […]
March 7, 2019

After controversy, Davis claims Jewish support at Birmingham discussion

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 […]
March 6, 2019

Black, Native American law enforcement groups join condemnation of anti-Israel “slanders”

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 […]