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Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon A new chapter of IfNotNow has opened in New Orleans, and is launching its public activities with a protest of a planned visit to the city by Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon. Founded in […]

Itzhak Perlman at home (courtesy Greenwich Entertainment) Film Festival season has arrived, with the Mobile Jewish Film Festival celebrating its 18th anniversary with an ambitious lineup of 10 films over two weeks in January. Organized in 2002, Jewish Cinema Mississippi in Jackson celebrates has its […]

Three months after a new Chabad center was announced for Pensacola, a third location for Chabad along the Florida panhandle coast was announced, in Panama City Beach. Rabbi Mendy and Chaya Havlin and their three young sons are moving to the area to establish a […]

Temple Emanu-El, Dothan (SJL file) By Rabbi Lynne Goldsmith In July 2007, I accepted the position of rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Dothan. I was a bit nervous. Here I was, a Yankee from Connecticut, moving to the Deep South, wondering if I would be […]

Governor Phil Bryant and Consul General Lior Haiat visit the Elvis Inn, near Jerusalem In November, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant made his fourth trip to Israel in five years, leading a 20-member trade delegation and speaking at the third Jerusalem Leaders Summit. Bryant was presented […]

Update: On Jan. 4, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute announced that the award dinner has been cancelled, an updated story about the cancellation and reaction is here. Each year, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute has an event to present its highest honor, the Fred Shuttlesworth […]

While many Jewish fashion designers have become household names, like Isaac Mizrahi and Michael Kors, the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts at the University of Alabama at Birmingham will host an exhibit about a designer who never got that chance, because she was murdered […]

In the days before America’s Nov. 6 midterm elections, amid growing political strife and divisiveness within the U.S., veteran Israeli journalist Herb Keinon spoke in Alabama. Keinon, diplomatic correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, has covered more than his fair share of divisiveness and strife in […]

After 11 years leading Touro Synagogue in New Orleans, Rabbi Alexis Berk is leaving the congregation next summer to take the pulpit at what she describes as the only place she would leave New Orleans for. Berk will become senior rabbi at Temple Solel in […]