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Plans were rolling along for this year’s Louisiana Film Prize, a weekend festival in Shreveport, when the sister of executive director Gregory Kallenberg told him she would not be there this year. She would be at services. Yom Kippur services. Kallenberg quickly looked at the […]

Photo courtesy Mississippi State Athletic Dept. Jacob Sanford “Jack” Cristil, the legendary voice of Mississippi State University athletics, died on Sept. 7 at the age of 88. “As a lifelong Bulldog, my heart is heavy at learning of the passing of legendary MSU broadcaster Jack […]

Editor’s Note: This was originally published in October 2010, but an al.com feature on odd street names in Alabama this week prompted us to post it online. The city of Gardendale, located about 10 miles north of Birmingham, has among its amenities a large municipal […]

The National Geographic IMAX film “Jerusalem” that has been screening at Birmingham’s McWane Center this summer opens at the Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center in Mobile on Sept. 13. In Mobile, the movie will be accompanied by two complementary exhibits and there will be a […]

Just days after it was announced that there would be a new Chabad center along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the Mississippi center picked up a new neighbor. Rabbi Yosef and Bina Goldwasser are setting up Chabad of Mobile this month after visiting the community earlier […]

And then there was one. With Rabbi Akiva and Hannah Hall moving to the Mississippi Coast this month to set up Chabad of Southern Mississippi, South Dakota is the only state in the country without a Chabad presence. What makes this move even more unusual […]

Anna Herman, the new director of Henry S. Jacobs Camp, announced that two familiar faces will be taking on new roles at the Reform movement’s camp in Mississippi. Sam Pailet of New Orleans has been named the camp’s assistant director, and Becci Craig of Jackson […]

Congregation Etz Chayim in Bentonville closed this “starter” building last month and meets at an area church while planning for its next building. While many small-town congregations struggle as their memberships age, a Jewish community continues to grow in northwest Arkansas. Congregation Etz Chayim in […]