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Editor’s Note: This piece was published in Deep South Jewish Voice, predecessor to Southern Jewish Life, in 2001. We are placing it on our site now because of increasing business ties between Israel and Japan.Photo of the plaque inducting Samuel Ullman into the Alabama Men’s […]

​ Ambassador Judith Varnai Shorer, pictured here speaking at the Conexx gala in June, is currently Consul General at Israel’s Consulate in Atlanta. On Jan. 6, communities around the Southeast were relieved to find out that Israel would not follow through on plans to close […]

He’s back. After threatening earlier this year that he would challenge Rep. Steve Scalise for the U.S. House, on July 22 former Ku Klux Klan leader, neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier David Duke filed instead to run for the U.S. Senate from Louisiana. In a video […]

Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson has apologized for comments made at a Middle East panel on July 25 where he referred to Israeli settlements in the territories as “like termites that can get into a residence and eat it up.” The comment was made as part […]

Rabbi Nancy Tunick of Nashville, who serves Temple B’nai Israel in Florence, is now doing online Ma’ariv services through the Sim Shalom online Jewish Universalist synagogue. Tunick is a founding rabbi for the Union of Jewish Universalist Congregations, a movement that also includes Rabbi Judy […]

B’nai Israel, Natchez This year, Natchez is celebrating its 300th birthday, and as part of the celebration the Southern Jewish Historical Society will hold its annual convention in Natchez, “Jews in the Southern Hinterland.” The conference will be Nov. 4 to 6, starting in Jackson […]

Mazel Tov Rainbow, 1993, from the private collection of James Altherr and Perry Umphrey Birmingham’s relationship to famed Israeli artist Yaacov Agam is explored in an exhibit currently on display at the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts. “Yaacov Agam: Metamorphic” features over 30 small […]