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The Nashville Jewish Film Festival has announced its 17th season schedule, with 15 films being shown over a four-week period at The Belcourt Theater, the AMC Bellevue 12 Theater and the Gordon Jewish Community Center. The festival starts on Oct. 17 at 7:30 p.m. at […]

Paul Finebaum and Mike Slive at the launch of the Mike Slive Foundation by Lee J. Green Former Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive, motivated by his own personal journey from diagnosis to remission, wants to help others beat prostate cancer. On Sept. 14, during Prostate […]

The National Council of Jewish Women’s New Orleans Section has selected community activist Kim Sport to receive its top award — the 2017 Hannah G. Solomon Award. Sport will be honored at the upcoming Hannah G. Solomon Award Luncheon on Oct. 16, 11:30 a.m. at […]

By popular demand, the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center will offer its first Community Education Series, based on the book “Why? Explaining the Holocaust,” by Peter Hayes. The book has eight chapters, each based on a common question posed by Hayes’ students during his 30 years […]

Community and religious leaders, including Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (third from right) and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (second from right), in the Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights in 1965. Photo copyright Dan Budnik, courtesy USHMM There will be two campus events […]

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens and Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem in 2011. Alabama is seen as a very pro-Israel state, especially among elected officials, and it looks like that will […]

Photo courtesy Ramah Darom Jewish summer camps around the country are mobilizing to fight a provision that is seen as endangering the camps’ ability to have Israelis on staff each summer. According to the American Camp Association, the J-1 Camp Counselor program has been targeted […]

Q: Bubba, can you get to the bottom of this? What’s the deal with the swastikas in the floor tiles at Ernst Café in New Orleans? Was that just a cool design a thousand years ago when the place was built, or was the original owner […]

Arnie Fielkow speaks at the JNOLA Chai Society gathering on Aug. 24 With the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans’ annual meeting coming up on Sept. 12, Federation Chief Executive Officer Arnie Fielkow is settling into his new position. After taking the reins of the […]