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October 18, 2016
October 18, 2016
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An interactive workshop in Birmingham will promote a “missing piece” in estate plans — legacy letters, often called ethical wills. Birmingham’s three Jewish community endowment organizations, the Birmingham Jewish Foundation, the Rabbi Grafman Endowment Fund of Temple Emanu-El and the Temple Beth-El Foundation, are co-sponsoring […]
October 14, 2016
October 14, 2016
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Photograph likely taken around the turn of the century, courtesy Gadsden Public Library, Historic Scarboro Photograph Collection. Nadler Store at Chestnut St and 4th St in Gadsden, Alabama Although it may seem odd that an infant buried in what was the Jewish section at Forrest […]
October 14, 2016
October 14, 2016
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After years of controversy, a full-size replica of Noah’s Ark opened in northern Kentucky this summer. Answers in Genesis, led by Ken Ham, developed the attraction as a way of promoting their view of Biblical inerrancy from a Christian perspective, and to bolster their argument […]
October 13, 2016
October 13, 2016
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When you’re a rabbi in a relatively-small Jewish community in a state capital, it isn’t unusual to encounter the governor frequently. If that governor eventually winds up being president, that’s a whole different level of memories. Rabbi Eugene Levy, who led B’nai Israel in Little […]
October 10, 2016
October 10, 2016
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Walter Isaacson The South-Central Region office of the Anti-Defamation League announced that Walter Isaacson and Carroll Suggs will be honored at this year’s A.I. Botnick Torch of Liberty Awards event. “Award recipients are people who care not just about themselves today, but about the children […]
October 7, 2016
October 7, 2016
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Songleader and musician Nick May of New Orleans has released his first studio album, “This Beauty.” Soon to graduate from Louisiana State University in Interdisciplinary Studies with concentrations in Jewish Studies, Religious Studies, and Sociology, May is also in his first year serving as the […]
October 5, 2016
October 5, 2016
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Fifteen new films have been selected for the 16th annual Nashville Jewish Film Festival, which will be held from Oct. 19 to Nov. 12. A program of the Gordon Jewish Community Center, the festival aims to bring “educational, entertaining and thought-provoking Jewish-themed films to the […]
September 30, 2016
September 30, 2016
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In its 14 years of existence, the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center has never had a past president. That will change on Dec. 31, as founding president Phyllis Weinstein retires. “It has been 14 years, and at upcoming age 96, I think it is time,” she […]
September 30, 2016
September 30, 2016
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Breaking ground on the Uptown Jewish Community Center expansion in New Orleans on Sept. 29. Pictured are Richard Buchsbaum, JCC president; Brian Katz, chair of the JCC Capital Campaign; Latoya Cantrell, New Orleans City Councilperson; Edward Soll, president of the Jewish Federation of Greater New […]