June 13, 2012

Memorial Services Remember Neshoba County Civil Rights Martyrs

Several events will remember the three civil rights workers killed in Neshoba County, Miss., in 1964. On June 21, 1964, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner went missing; their bodies were later discovered in an earthen dam in what became one of the best-known […]
June 11, 2012

NOLA native Trestman writing bio of legal pioneer Bessie Margolin

Marlene Trestman, a New Orleans native who now teaches law at Loyola University in Maryland, received grants to help her complete the first biography of fellow New Orleanian Bessie Margolin, a pioneering woman lawyer who defended the New Deal. Margolin was raised in the New […]
June 8, 2012

“Team Katie” Walks to Battle Lupus

Katie Held, co-chair of the Birmingham Jewish Federation’s 2013 campaign, is raising money and awareness for this Saturday’s Walk for Lupus Now event. The event is personal for Held, who has lupus and is well aware that there is little public knowledge about the disease. […]
June 8, 2012

Back from Israel performances, Antigone Rising to play in Birmingham

On June 14, Antigone Rising, an all-female rock band from New York, will perform at The Nick in Birmingham. While the band is known for its extensive touring, it recently had a completely different concert experience — as United States arts envoys and cultural ambassadors […]
June 8, 2012

HIPPY 25th Anniversary Celebration in New Orleans

A preschool supplemental program that was developed in Israel is celebrating its 25th anniversary in New Orleans schools this week. HIPPY, or Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, was developed in 1969 at the National Council of Jewish Women Research Institute for Innovation in Education […]
June 7, 2012

Commander’s Palace, Gautreau’s chefs lead NOLA Culinary Mission to Israel

Chefs Tory McPhail of Commander’s Palace and Sue Zemanick of Gautreau’s will be leading a Food and Wine Adventure to Israel in October, coordinated by the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans. The mission, scheduled for Oct. 14 to 23, is a follow-up to a […]
June 7, 2012

Rosa Parks Museum Hosts Exhibit on Jewish Anti-Apartheid Activist

The Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery is debuting an exhibit about a Jewish woman who fought the apartheid system in South Africa, and is hosting a panel discussion tonight as an opening event. “Helen Suzman: Fighter for Human Rights” will be displayed through Aug. 27. […]
June 6, 2012

Asa (or Forrest) Carter: Reconstruction of a Virulent Anti-Semite

In the 1950s and 1960s, Asa Carter was a passionate white supremacist and vitriolic anti-Semite. He wrote some of Governor George Wallace’s most memorable lines, including “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,” until he became too extreme even for Wallace. Years later, Forrest Carter became […]
June 5, 2012

Rabbi Goldsmith Leaving Birmingham’s Beth-El

Rabbi Michelle Goldsmith judging at the Kosher Barbecue Contest in May. Rabbi Michelle Goldsmith of Birmingham’s Temple Beth-El announced on Sunday that the coming year would be her last with the congregation. She made the announcement at the end of the congregation’s annual meeting. Goldsmith […]