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October 28, 2015
October 28, 2015
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Yossi Klein Halevi UPDATE: The Mitch Albom event on Nov. 22 has been cancelled due to a schedule conflict. The Cathy and Morris Bart Jewish Cultural Arts Month will bring a variety of authors and cultural performances to the Uptown Jewish Community Center in New […]
October 26, 2015
October 26, 2015
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Joanie Leeds will be in concert on Nov. 13 Birmingham’s Levite Jewish Community Center is hosting a series of programs in conjunction with Jewish Book Month throughout November. Co-sponsored by the Birmingham Jewish Foundation, the series began on Nov. 1 with journalist and fatherhood columnist […]
October 16, 2015
October 16, 2015
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Above: Serving customers at the Friedman Family Foundation Jewish Food Festival, at Birmingham’s Levite Jewish Community Center, Oct. 11. Around the South: Week of Oct. 16, 2015 Southern Jewish Life is celebrating its 25th anniversary! The December issue will be a 25-year retrospective of SJL […]
October 9, 2015
October 9, 2015
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Around the South: Week of Oct. 9, 2015 “Rosenwald,” a documentary about a partnership between Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, and Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute, will screen in the region this month (above). Through their efforts, 5400 “Rosenwald Schools” for blacks were built […]
October 8, 2015
October 8, 2015
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Rabbi Steve Jacobs reads from the Holocaust scroll at Temple Emanu-El in Tuscaloosa Two Alabama communities dedicated Torah scrolls on Sept. 20, and it turned out to be a story of something old and something new. Tuscaloosa’s Temple Emanu-El dedicated a Holocaust Torah that is […]
October 7, 2015
October 7, 2015
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File photo The 28th annual Jay Mosow Memorial Delta Jewish Golf Open, a fundraiser and “family reunion” for the Jewish communities in the Mississippi Delta, will be on Nov. 1 at the Greenville Country Club. Sponsored by members of the Hebrew Union Congregation in Greenville, […]
October 4, 2015
October 4, 2015
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Pastor Robert Somerville and Susannah Heschel Just before Rosh Hashanah, two Jewish Abrahams were recognized for their roles in Alabama history. Redigging the Wells, “a Biblical prayer based strategy for Spiritual transformation” to bring “healing to the land and people in our region” honored Rabbi […]
October 2, 2015
October 2, 2015
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Twelve years ago, filmmaker Aviva Kempner went to a conference on black-Jewish relations at the Hebrew Center on Martha’s Vineyard expecting to hear about Jewish involvement in the South in the 1960s civil rights movement. Instead, she said, civil rights leader Julian Bond “started talking […]
October 2, 2015
October 2, 2015
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Above: JNOLA held a family-friendly Safari in the Sukkah at Audubon Zoo in New Orleans on Sept. 30. Around the South: Week of Oct. 2, 2015 “Rosenwald,” a documentary about a partnership between Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, and Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute, […]