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The Community Day School in Metairie has Jewish in its name once again. The school’s board voted to change the school’s name in January. Originally the New Orleans Jewish Day School, the elementary school became Community Day School in September 2012 in an effort to […]

The New Orleans Section of the National Council of Jewish Women will honor Marjorie and Scott Cowen as the 2014 Hannah Solomon Award recipients. The luncheon will be held at the Hilton Riverside on Feb. 3 at noon. A reception with a cash bar will […]

A new organization that wants to build stronger ties between Alabama and Israel is having its first events across the state this week. The Alabama-Israel Task Force is bringing in two leaders from the Israel Leadership Institute in Sderot for a series of events in […]

On Jan. 26 at noon, B’nai Israel Synagogue in Pensacola will kick off a new Torah project. Representatives from Sofer on Site in Miami have been commissioned to write a new Torah for the Conservative congregation, which has been in need of a new scroll. […]

Do not adjust your set — Auburn fullback Jay Prosch is indeed sporting a Hebrew tattoo on his arm. Prosch, who is playing in the BCS national championship game tonight, is a native of Mobile who originally went to the University of Illinois. In 2012, […]

Three communities in the region are having their annual Jewish Film Festivals this month. The Mobile Jewish Film Festival will screen seven films in eight venues in Mobile and Baldwin counties from Jan. 9 to 22. The Baton Rouge Jewish Film Festival will be at […]

“Golda’s Balcony,” the longest-running one-woman show in Broadway history, is coming to New Orleans this month. The story of Golda Meir, Israel’s fourth prime minister, the show opens during her most challenging time — the Yom Kippur War, when Egypt and Syria launched a surprise […]

In this 1998 file photo, Wayne and Sue Willis at their home with a Star of David necklace that was banned by the Pike County schools as a “gang symbol.” Wayne Willis, who with his wife, Sue Willis, filed a lawsuit in 1997 against anti-Jewish […]

Two Alabama congregations are relaunching their preschool programs this year, with open houses in early January. Birmingham’s Temple Emanu-El is transforming its preschool program into the Discovery School, starting in June, while the Gan Shalom Preschool at Ahavas Chesed in Mobile will become GSP Preschool […]