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Shir Chadash in Metairie, the only Conservative congregation in the New Orleans area, announced that Rabbi Deborah Silver will succeed Rabbi Ethan Linden this summer. Lisa Finkelstein, president of the congregation of over 300 families, made the announcement today in the congregation’s weekly email that […]

Hilik Bar, the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, has a message for Alabama: Thank you. Bar, said to be the highest-ranking Israeli official ever to visit the state, spoke to a joint session of the Alabama Legislature on April 7. He was invited by Lieutenant […]

In the last few weeks, nola.com and New Orleans magazine had articles on the effort to standardize the date of Easter. Most years, Easter falls during Passover, but on occasion — like this year — they are a month apart. Easter is very early while […]

With Passover coming up, it is time for the rabbis at the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life to hit the road for the sixth annual Passover Pilgrimage. Rabbi Jeremy Simons, Director of Rabbinic Services, and Rabbi Matthew Dreffin, Associate Director of Education, will visit […]

Amy Jill-Levine, a self-described “Yankee Jewish feminist who teaches in a predominantly Christian divinity school in the buckle of the Bible Belt,” will be the featured speaker at an interfaith scholar in residence weekend in Huntsville. Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish […]

Abraham Hausman-Weiss displays his MVP award at the 2015 conference championship. Abraham Hausman-Weiss will be coming back to Alabama, this time as a highly-touted athlete for the University of Alabama. Regarded as one of the leading players in the country in wheelchair basketball, Hausman-Weiss signed […]

Jon Cleary will headline the 25th JazzFest Shabbat on April 29. Now in its 25th year, JazzFest Shabbat packs the sanctuary at New Orleans’ Touro Synagogue and has become a traditional part of a major New Orleans cultural event. This year, the tradition has a […]

Madeline Iles will speak about changing the Historic Natchez Tableaux (seen here in a 2007 file photo) last year, to no longer romanticize the pre-Civil War South, and to include black perspectives on slavery. File photo. Three Mississippians — two who have been active in […]