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NECHAMA Jewish Response to Disaster is on the ground in Baton Rouge (Updated frequently) Thirty Jewish families in the Baton Rouge area are known to have been displaced or experienced severe damage to their homes after this week’s floods in central Louisiana, according to the […]

Seven decades ago, the world got its first glance at film shot by the Allies in the Nazi concentration camps. An exhibit about how that footage was gathered will open this month at the History Museum of Mobile. Hollywood directors John Ford, George Stevens, and […]

Volunteers prepare meals at Beth Shalom in Baton Rouge (from the congregation’s Facebook) (Updated frequently) Relief efforts are underway following the historic flooding in Baton Rouge and central Louisiana, and the Jewish community is working to assess the situation and provide aid. Parts of the […]

For the first time, an Israeli driver will take the wheel at a NASCAR Xfinity Series race this weekend, and a Florida attorney hopes it will be inspiring for the Jewish community. With a boost from Sarasota’s David Levin — and indirect assistance from Duck […]

Alan Goldspiel Cantor Jessica Roskin of Birmingham’s Temple Emanu-El said it is rare for a congregation to have the opportunity and ability to commission an original musical composition, let alone an entire service. On Aug. 26, Emanu-El will hold the world premiere of “The Klezmer […]

When “March of the Living,” an annual student trip to Poland to visit Holocaust sites, opened to adults in 1994, Birmingham’s Betty Allenberg Goldstein signed up. “It was life-changing,” she said. She came back with a passion for Holocaust education, and on Aug. 21 will […]

Robert Witt, chancellor of the University of Alabama System, was honored at the Zeta Beta Tau International Convention in Atlanta on July 23 with the Riegelman-Jacobs Award for Outstanding Interfraternal Service. Earlier this year, during the University of Alabama ZBT chapter’s centennial celebration, Witt was […]