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By Rep. Bradley Byrne The United States has no stronger ally than Israel. Our relationship has always been strong, both economically and militarily. Israel plays an especially important role in helping us combat radical Islamic terrorism in the Middle East. In other words, Israel serves […]

Rabbi Robert Loewy blows the shofar at the 2016 annual meeting of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans. A previously-announced Tree of Life sculpture dedication in honor of Rabbi Robert Loewy at Gates of Prayer in Metairie during the Jan. 6 Shabbat service has […]

Birmingham’s Temple Emanu-El, the largest Jewish congregation in Alabama, announced the upcoming retirement of Rabbi Jonathan Miller, who has led the congregation for 26 years. In a letter to the congregation, Emanu-El President Ben Weil said “after almost three decades of tireless devotion to our […]

J.J. Goldberg and Jonathan Tobin The national Goldberg-Tobin “Civil Discourse” Tour visits Birmingham this month for a debate on “Left vs. Right: The Battle for Israel’s Soul.” Because of the winter storm, the Jan. 8 event was postponed and it will now be on Jan. […]

“On The Map”: Moshe Dayan shaking hands with (left to right) Moti Aroesti, Aulcie Pery, and Miki Berkovich Jewish film festival season gets underway this month with annual festivals in Mobile, Baton Rouge and Jackson, and Jewish film presentations taking place in Oxford in February […]

University of Alabama Hillel did a Chanukah display for the campus-wide Stress-Free Daze Holiday Celebration before Finals week. Chabad at the University of Alabama is touting the lighting of a Chanukah menorah on campus at the University of Alabama “for the first time in its […]

Senator-elect John Kennedy at an Israel Bonds event at the Uptown JCC in New Orleans in 2014 Republicans from the South are almost uniformly supportive of Israel, and the three new faces heading to Congress from Louisiana are no different in that regard. Louisiana Treasurer […]

“Golda’s Balcony,” the longest-running one-woman show in Broadway history, is coming to Birmingham next month. Temple Emanu-El is hosting the production on Jan. 28. The story of Golda Meir, Israel’s fourth prime minister, the show opens during her most challenging time — the Yom Kippur […]