All

Joe Walsh tweeted a photo of the Israel “award” he received as a ruse to get him to Washington for Sacha Baron Cohen’s new show. Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is among those duped by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, and is threatening legal […]

Thanks to the efforts of a Birmingham-area teacher, a town in Romania that was the birthplace of one of Birmingham’s Holocaust survivors now has a memorial to the town’s little-remembered Jewish community. Amy McDonald, a history teacher at Shades Valley High School, made a return […]

Three weeks after arriving in Birmingham, Bethany and Rabbi Stephen Slater have a bris for their newborn son, at Temple Beth-El on July 4. Slater, who just started as rabbi of the state’s largest Conservative congregation, did the procedure, assisted by Fran Ivker. (July 19 […]

When asked about his work with United Ability as the organization’s first medical director, Mark Cohen steers the conversation away from himself and talks passionately about the work that the agency, formerly known as United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham, does for children and adults […]

The New York-based Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights, also known as TOLI, held its first Satellite Seminar of the summer in Jackson from June 6 to 8. The Satellite Seminar program brings the TOLI educational model to teachers across the United […]

After 15 years of working with the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life, Rachel Stern is heading to Austin to become the first-ever director of the new Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Jewish Culture and Education at Shalom Austin. Stern, who first began consulting […]

Illustration of possible development at old Trinity Hospital site in Birmingham, next to the Levite Jewish Community Center So, how does an Orthodox family from Washington get involved in a project named Trinity Heights in Birmingham? Berman Enterprises, based in Maryland, is looking to convert […]

“From Bama to Barney”: Part of the large Alabama delegation to Camp Barney Medintz in Georgia this summer With the summer camp season well underway, the New Orleans-based Jewish Children’s Regional Service announced its scholarship support numbers for this year, and is already looking ahead […]

A left-wing advocacy group that opposes Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians but takes no official position on the BDS movement that seeks to eradicate Israel, or on the existence of Israel itself, has been trying to get Jewish summer camps to adopt their advocacy positions. […]