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Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant speaks at the Governor’s Lunch at Mississippi Meets Israel on April 28 in Jackson. Seated are Mississippi Development Authority Director Manning McPhillips, Israeli Consul General Opher Aviran and Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer. On April 27 and 28, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant […]

From SJL and jns.org reports On April 21, the Tennessee Legislature became the first state body to pass a bill condemning the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement against Israel. The U.S. Congress is also considering an anti-boycott law, the United States-Israel Trade and Commercial Enhancement […]

The second GiveNOLA Day will be on May 5, and will have much more participation by agencies in the Jewish community. Hosted by the Greater New Orleans Foundation, GiveNOLA Day is a one-day, online giving event to inspire people to give generously to the nonprofit […]

The upcoming scholar-in-residence weekend at Birmingham’s Temple Beth-El will have an interfaith focus, with an invitation to the entire Southside faith community to participate. Rabbi Irwin Kula is president of CLAL, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. A best-selling author, Kula received the […]

Preparing the Western Wall model for Montgomery’s Israel celebration. The Jewish Federation of Central Alabama will have a Celebrate Israel 67 community-wide festival on April 19 from 4 to 7 p.m. The event will be at the Wynlakes Golf and Country Club in Montgomery. “We […]

The courtyard of the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum This year, the Birmingham International Center is focusing on China, and as in recent years, one of the programs has to do with the country’s Jewish community. The center promotes global business development and global education in […]

Three Hadassah regions will have a joint “Hadassah Big and Easy” spring conference and Shabbaton, April 17 to 19 in New Orleans at the Hilton Airport in Kenner. The new Super South Tri-Region consists of the Southern Seaboard, Southeastern and Southern regions and is the […]

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band will headline the 24th annual Touro Synagogue JazzFest Shabbat on April 24. JazzFest Shabbat has been celebrated by Touro for over two decades, bringing together Judaism with jazz. The service is open to the community, and has attracted some of […]

Birmingham’s Yom HaShoah commemoration on April 12 Communities across the South will mark the 70th anniversary of liberation as part of this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. With the number of survivors in the region dwindling, emphasis is now shifting to second- and third-generation family members […]