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A component of the Jewish Community Centers Maccabi Games every year is international representation, and Birmingham is looking to personalize it by having Jewish teens from sister cities join Team Birmingham. The Maccabi Games are an Olympic-style athletic competition for Jewish teens, with elements of […]

There have been three Israeli players in the National Basketball Association, and all of them have played in New Orleans — very briefly. There were hopes that when the Pelicans executed a major trade that brought All-Star DeMarcus Cousins and Omri Casspi to New Orleans […]

Imam Sameh Asal of the Hoover Crescent Islamic Center speaks in solidarity with the Jewish community at a Feb. 24 rally in front of the Levite Jewish Community Center in Birmingham. For the third time in six weeks, Birmingham’s Levite Jewish Community Center was evacuated […]

Rabbi Alexis Pinsky spoke at a Feb. 9 interfaith solidarity gathering at a Muslim school in Kenner. Rabbi Alexis Pinsky, assistant rabbi at Gates of Prayer in Metairie, informed the congregation’s board that she will be leaving at the end of June. In January, Rabbi […]

Three days after 11 Jewish Community Centers across the United States received phoned bomb threats, in the fourth such wave since the start of the year, the Uptown Jewish Community Center in New Orleans was evacuated briefly. Around 9:15 a.m. the JCC received a recorded […]

Birmingham Mayor William Bell speaks about bomb threats to JCCs nationwide, including in Birmingham Responding to the fourth wave of phoned-in bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers nationwide, including twice at Birmingham’s Levite JCC, Birmingham Mayor William Bell sent a message that “Birmingham is a […]

For Beth Israel in Jackson, 1967 was an eventful year, and the next few weeks will be filled with 50th anniversary celebrations. At the 6:15 p.m. service on Feb. 24, the congregation will have a service in tribute to their building’s 50th anniversary. The Beth […]

In 2014, Mississippi became the next-to-last state to have a Chabad presence. Now, just months after it was announced that South Dakota is making it 50-for-50, Chabad of South Mississippi announced its new Chabad House. “We’ve needed a new space for about a year,” Rabbi […]

On the walking tour outside Brown Chapel AME Church If Selma needs a tourism spokesman, Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld of Ohev Shalom, the National Synagogue in Washington, would be a likely candidate. After leading a 125-person delegation from Washington and Atlanta on a civil rights Shabbaton […]