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Dancers from Rosh Ha’Ayin prepare to join Team Alabama While organizers of the Maccabi Games in Birmingham strive to provide a Birmingham touch to various aspects of the games, the home team will also have an international flavor. Almost two dozen athletes from Birmingham’s sister […]

With less than two weeks to go, the year-and-a-half preparation for the 2017 Maccabi Games in Birmingham has accelerated toward the finish line. About 900 Jewish teens from across the United States and around the world will come to Birmingham to participate in the games, […]

Next month, New Orleans will welcome an addition to the kosher restaurant scene, with a “kosher farm to table” concept by Chef Daniel Esses of Three Muses. Rimon will open at the Tulane University Hillel, open to students and the general public. Esses plans to […]

The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience’s previous location in Utica, Miss. The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, which closed its location on the campus of the Henry S. Jacobs Camp in Utica six years ago, is closer to having a new home, and […]

Rabbi Raina Siroty, right, with Rabbi Karen Fox and Rabbi Sally Preisand at Siroty’s ordination on May 14. While many smaller Jewish communities aren’t able to support both a rabbi and a cantor, Alexandria’s Gemiluth Chassodim is getting both — in one individual. Rabbi Raina […]

Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins apologized for a video he took while touring the Auschwitz concentration camp and had posted on July 1. Higgins, who is in his first term, said “my message has caused pain to some whom I love and respect. For that, my […]

Samantha Montgomery and Kutiman. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. A documentary about an unusual musical connection between New Orleans and Israel will have its U.S. television debut this month on Public Television’s POV documentary series. For years, Samantha Montgomery has worked in a New Orleans […]

Rabbi Elliot Stevens at the annual Holocaust Days of Remembrance Commemoration in 2015, at Maxwell Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Henry Hancock) Rabbi Elliot Stevens, who has led Temple Beth Or in Montgomery for the last 10 years, died on June 21. […]

June 25 will be a historic day in NASCAR as Alon Day becomes the first Israeli driver to compete in the top NASCAR series. Day will drive the BK Racing No. 23 EarthWater Limited Toyota Camry in the Toyota/Save Mart 350 in Sonoma, Calif., part […]