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Hidden Child Elsa Ross, by David Kassan Artist David Kassan, who has a project that paints and documents survivors of the Holocaust, will be in residence at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Nov. 12 to 16, when he will make a portrait of […]

At the Oct. 25 launch of the Taube Family Holocaust Education Program at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Sean Taube of Taube Philanthropies discusses his father Tad Taube’s experience fleeing Poland as a child on the eve of WWII in 1939, and dedicating […]

Birmingham has long been known as the Pittsburgh of the South, because of the city’s iron and steel manufacturing history. A couple of days after a gunman opened fire at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, a crowd of over 2000 assembled for an evening […]

Members of the New Orleans City Council spoke at the Shir Chadash remembrance on Oct. 28 One day after 11 Jews were murdered during Shabbat services at Tree of Life in Pittsburgh, an overflow crowd filled the sanctuary and social hall of Shir Chadash in […]

Before Pittsburgh, where was the worst attack on a Jewish prayer service in U.S. history? Gadsden, Alabama. Gary Zola, director of the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, told the Cincinnati Enquirer that the Pittsburgh attack was the first time in U.S. history that Jews were […]

Gathering to remember the victims of the Tree of Life shooting, at the Alexandria, La., Holocaust memorial Jewish communities around the region have been joined by their neighbors in holding vigils and community gatherings following the murder of 11 members of Tree of Life in […]

Tree of Life in Pittsburgh This morning’s attack on a Shabbat service at Tree of Life in Pittsburgh reverberated throughout the region. According to reports, 46-year-old Robert Bowers entered the building this morning, shouted “All these Jews need to die” and opened fire, killing 11 […]

Rabbi Matthew Reimer with New Orleans City Councilor Joe Giarrusso earlier this summer On Oct. 24, New Orleans Temple Sinai President Robin Giarrusso informed the congregation that Rabbi Matthew Reimer had requested that his contract not be renewed next summer The announcement comes two weeks […]

Andrea S. (Andi) Lestelle, president of the Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana, announced that R. Justin (Bobby) Garon will become JEF’s next executive director, effective Jan. 1, 2019. He will succeed Sandy Levy, who has headed the agency for 27 years, growing the overall assets […]