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Euric Cain, via NOPD UPDATED THROUGHOUT (Nov. 24): A Jewish medical student at Tulane University is being hailed as a hero and is recovering from being shot after he stopped his car to assist a woman who was being assaulted. Peter Gold, 25, spotted a […]

German Deputy Consul General Thomas Wulfing and French Consul General Denis Barbet It was poignant timing that the Anti-Defamation League’s Atlanta office had scheduled a forum in Birmingham for Nov. 18 on “Anti-Semitism and Extremism in Europe,” featuring Atlanta-based diplomats from France and Germany. The […]

What does a thin Jewish kid growing up in Birmingham who has an obsession with opera and aspires to be the next Enrico Caruso wind up doing? If you answered “become a professional wrestler,” then you clearly have met Sam Tenenbaum Jr. His autobiography, “The […]

A survey of the Birmingham Jewish community is being undertaken by a coalition of agencies and congregations, to understand the demographics, attitudes, opinions and needs of Jewish residents in the area. The survey is being undertaken after the 2013 Pew Research Council’s landmark national study, […]

When S.I. Greenberg was serving as the kosher butcher in Tyler, Tex., in the 1930s, little could he have imagined that what he was doing would set the groundwork for enhancing tens of thousands of Christmas celebrations across the region. It’s the busy season for […]

Rabbi Michael Cook The 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate will be marked in New Orleans with a program coordinated by the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans and the Jewish Community Relations Council in partnership with the Archdiocese of Greater New Orleans. This will kick […]

File photo (2013) Each year, over 1,000 runners hit Montclair Road in Birmingham on Thanksgiving morning to take part in the Sam Lapidus Montclair Run. This year, the run is expanding so runners of all levels can participate. In addition to the usual 10-kilometer race […]

by Larry Brook, editor When I started attending national Jewish newspaper conventions in the early 1990s, when people found out where I was from, I was often asked if I knew fellow Southerner Harry Golden, with a tone that indicated they were speaking about one […]

Joseph Sher sings “Yidl Mitn Fidl” with a fiddler figurine For Joseph Sher, who has made his home in New Orleans for 65 years after a lengthy ordeal in surviving the Holocaust, there are two phrases that detail his outlook on life. The first is […]