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Texas native Taylor Force, a student at the Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management in Nashville, was killed in a Palestinian terror attack in Jaffa today. He was 28. The attack was one of three high-profile attacks perpetrated on the day when U.S. Vice […]

A quieter time at Temple Beth Or’s festival on Feb. 28 With the coming of Spring comes numerous Jewish food events at congregations around the region, including several involving corned beef just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. The season began with the annual Temple […]

Rabbi Ethan Linden came to New Orleans seven years ago to lead Shir Chadash in Metairie after serving as assistant director of Camp Ramah in New England, in Palmer, Mass. Now, he is heading back up north to become the new director of Camp Ramah […]

This month, Opera Birmingham is presenting two chamber operas by Ricky Ian Gordon, one of the leading modern composers, many of whose works have a highly personal, autobiographical nature. Though “Orpheus and Euridice” and “Green Sneakers” were composed a few years apart and seem to […]

Deborah Dash Moore will be the speaker for the Rabbi Jeffrey Ballon Memorial Scholar in Residence Weekend at Huntsville’s Temple B’nai Sholom next month. A Biloxi native, Ballon served as rabbi of Temple B’nai Sholom from 2001 to 2009. He died in 2011 after battling […]

The cast of “You Can’t Stop That Spiel” at Temple B’nai Sholom in Huntsville, March 3 to 6. (Updated 3/10/16) Birmingham will have its first community-wide Purim-Palooza involving the Birmingham Jewish Federation and Foundation, PJ Library, Chabad of Alabama, Collat Jewish Family Services, Knesseth Israel, […]

Rabbi David Polsky joined several other local rabbis for a Bend the Arc candlelight vigil on Cabrini Bridge in June 2015, urging Congressional action on voting rights. A year of rabbinic changes in New Orleans continues with the announcement that Anshe Sfard Rabbi David Polsky […]

The Birmingham Holocaust Education Center, in partnership with Birmingham Aids Outreach, will host “Remember Their Voices,” a double bill opera performance at the newly-renovated Lyric Theatre on March 5 at 7:30 p.m. Jake Heggie’s “For a Look or a Touch” is a work dealing with […]