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Birmingham brings home the gold in basketball The Memphis Maccabi Games ended last night, and the Birmingham and New Orleans teams are bringing home some hardware, and some medals are also going to Jackson. Birmingham’s Levite Jewish Community Center received its first-ever team gold medal […]

Several congregations in the region are offering classes on Judaism this year, with some getting under way this month. The courses are designed for anyone with an interest in Judaism, whether a Jewish person who needs a refresher course, interfaith couples, a non-Jew who is […]

Duke University announced on Aug. 6 that it will acquire the papers of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. Heschel was a highly visible and charismatic leader in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements. He co-founded Clergy Concerned About Vietnam and served as a Jewish liaison […]

By Lee J. Green A comedy feature from a Jewish filmmaker will open the 12th annual Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham, August 24 to 26, rated by several sources as one of the top 10 film festivals in the nation. “Supporting Characters,” co-written and directed […]

Recently, Birmingham’s Collat Jewish Family Services doubled the size of its food closet, which served 139 families last year. The challenge now is to keep it stocked — and stocked properly. Local congregations do High Holiday drives, where bags are distributed on Rosh Hashanah, filled […]

Championship games often end with a round of fireworks. For the 30th annual New Orleans Synagogue Softball League championship game on Wednesday night, the fireworks were on the field. As Shir Chadash rallied in the seventh inning, a runner’s interference call nullified what would have […]

One Louisiana state representative in particular thought it was “preposterous” when Rep. Valarie Hodges was reported to have said that she thought the recently-passed vouchers in Louisiana would be only for Christian schools; certainly not for Muslim schools. That reaction came from Hodges herself. In […]

While the debate over a moment of silence in memory of 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Munich Olympics continues to cloud today’s Opening Ceremonies for the 2012 London Games, one of the 11 is memorialized in New Orleans. David Mark […]

Starting today, the Tulane School of Medicine is teaming up with the National World War II Museum to present an exhibit about eugenics and the “science of race” in the Nazi regime. “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race” is a traveling exhibition of the United […]