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August 17, 2015
August 17, 2015
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The Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham is showcasing a film this month that is guaranteed to leave audiences hungry. “Deli Man,” which explores the shrinking world of Jewish delis, is slated for two screenings at the world-renowned festival. “Deli Man” is the third in a […]
August 14, 2015
August 14, 2015
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above: the water tower at Marks, Mississippi Marks was founded by Leopold Marks who was born in Germany, immigrated to the US in 1868, and two years later wound up in Friars Point. After earning enough to buy a small steamboat, he opened a trading […]
August 14, 2015
August 14, 2015
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Ten years after the levees broke, the recovery effort still continues in parts of New Orleans. Despite an excessive heat warning, about 60 members of the New Orleans Jewish community got up early on Aug. 9 to spend the day working on rebuilding four homes […]
August 13, 2015
August 13, 2015
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Holocaust survivor Max Steinmetz of Birmingham next to a model of Auschwitz that students from Fultondale High School made (story below). The Birmingham Holocaust Education Center’s second annual L’Chaim gala will mark 70 years since the liberation of Europe, and honor Brenda and Fred Friedman […]
August 7, 2015
August 7, 2015
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above: mural of the cast iron column on 1874 Kahn Building, ShreveportAround the South: Week of Aug. 7, 2015 A Jewish community Day of Service will commemorate the 10th anniversary of Katrina, with volunteers working with the St. Bernard Project to rebuild homes on Aug. […]
August 7, 2015
August 7, 2015
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Beth Israel in Biloxi, after Katrina hit For Brad Kessie, the president of Beth Israel in Gulfport, the Hurricane Katrina 10th anniversary “can come and go as quickly as possible.” Beth Israel will mark the anniversary at its Aug. 28 Shabbat service. The first part […]
August 6, 2015
August 6, 2015
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Beth Israel in Lakeview was flooded, and the Torahs later had to be buried with hundreds of other unusable Judaic items When word came down to evacuate New Orleans in advance of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, most in the Jewish community figured they would […]
August 4, 2015
August 4, 2015
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The crematoria at the Dachau concentration camp, pictured during a stop on the July 2015 European Holocaust tour of the Alfred Lerner Fellowship for Holocaust educators. Credit: Kelly Webeck. By Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org When Kelly Webeck visited Nazi Germany’s former Chelmno extermination camp in Poland […]
July 31, 2015
July 31, 2015
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Above: The Jewish Young Adults of North Louisiana recently had a Shabbat gathering with two visiting Chabad “roving rabbis.” Around the South A Jewish community Day of Service will commemorate the 10th anniversary of Katrina, with volunteers working with the St. Bernard Project to rebuild […]