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Anti-Semitic graffiti on Tchoupitoulas Street in New Orleans, November 2016 Anti-Semitic incidents surged by more than one-third in 2016, and are already up by 86 percent in the first quarter of 2017, according to the annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents from the Anti-Defamation League. ADL […]

For the first time since 1979, a total solar eclipse will occur in the mainland United States, and right in the middle of the 70-mile-wide path of totality is Ramah Darom in north Georgia. Just one and one-half weeks after summer camp ends, the Conservative […]

In September 2015, Marthe Cohn’s talk in Metairie, “Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany,” was very popular. This month, she returns to the region for a May 10 talk in Baton Rouge, and when Chabad in Metairie […]

Rev. Robert Stearns at the 2016 Huntsville Celebrates Israel event Eagles’ Wings, a New York-based pro-Israel Christian group, is coordinating Huntsville Celebrates Israel, “a Christian expression of love and support for Israel and the Jewish people” on May 7 at The Rock Family Worship Center. […]

“In Search of Israeli Cuisine” will screen at the Uptown JCC in New Orleans on May 1. Several events in the region will mark Israel’s 69th birthday. Birmingham’s Levite Jewish Community Center will host an Israel Independence Day celebration, April 30 from 11:30 a.m. to […]

Small Town Rage The annual North Louisiana Jewish Film Festival by the North Louisiana Jewish Federation will be held April 30 to May 4 at the Robinson Film Center. One of the featured films is “Small Town Rage: Fighting Back in the Deep South,” about […]

The newest Rohr Jewish Learning Institute course marks the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War, which reunified Jerusalem under Jewish control for the first time in 1900 years. “Survival of a Nation: Exploring Israel Through the Lens of the Six Day War” will be […]

In the end, everybody had their say and went away. After several days of conflict and concern over an announced speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer at Auburn University on April 18, a court ruling cleared the way for the speech to go on as […]

Day School students with interviewee Cantor Jessica Roskin “Better Together Names, Not Numbers,” a project at Birmingham’s N.E. Miles Jewish Day School, will have its debut screening on May 2 at 6:30 p.m. at Homewood Public Library. The Better Together Names Not Numbers project is […]