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The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute will present “To Be a Jew in the Free World: Jewish Identity Through the Lens of Modern History,” the institute’s new six-session Winter 2014 course that will begin during the first week of February. In New Orleans, Rabbi Mendel Ceitlin […]

(Editor’s Note: Updated on Jan. 8 with statements by numerous additional universities in the Deep South, including Sewanee, Auburn, Emory and Vanderbilt.) This month’s vote by the American Studies Association to endorse an academic boycott of Israel is continuing to draw reaction far and wide, […]

Noa Baum will bring her one-woman show, “A Land Twice Promised” to several locations in the region this month. A Jerusalem native, Baum has been performing and doing storytelling workshops since 1982. A former actress with the Khan Theater in Jerusalem, she combined storytelling and […]

The Israeli team does an emergency response simulation at the LSU Health Sciences Center on Dec. 5. After four days of joint sessions between Israeli and New Orleans medical and emergency experts, Avi Rivkind had a confession. The head of the department of general surgery […]

Since Hurricane Katrina, a lot of young Jews have flocked to the New Orleans area to be part of the city’s rebuilding. An organization comprised of young Jewish adults set up roots in New Orleans, and since 2008 has made a difference with numerous social […]

Over the past year, we have done numerous stories tied to 50th anniversaries of Civil Rights events, and how the events affected the Jewish community here at the time. In the December issue, we have a modern-day story involving a historically-Jewish institution in the civil […]

The recently-announced LimmudFest New Orleans will be expanding for its third incarnation — both in duration and geography. LimmudFest is a festival of Jewish learning that celebrates culture and community. Organized and run entirely by volunteers, LimmudFest is designed to appeal to Jews of all […]

The first week of December, Beth Israel in Jackson is partnering with St. James Episcopal Church to host the NAMES Project Foundation’s AIDS Memorial Quilt. In 2006, St. James hosted 12 sections of the quilt, which contains panels detailing the lives of those who have […]

In the middle of Chanukah, Shearith Israel Synagogue in Columbus, Ga., was preparing to do its own rededication. On Nov. 30, the congregation plans to light the eternal light and hang mezuzahs on its new home, the former River Chapel Primitive Baptist Church, which the […]