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“Marching to Zion,” the latest novel by Mary Glickman, came about after a reader’s observation. The reader told her that in her first two novels, “Home in the Morning” and “One More River,” she had “constructed a narrative of the Southern Jewish Experience as it […]

Left: Birmingham Mayor William Bell presents the key to the city to Ambassador Yoram Ettinger. At the second annual JH Israel and U.S.-Israel Education Association Foundation dinner, founder Heather Johnston said “we have so much to celebrate.” Ambassador Yoram Ettinger, the dinner’s speaker, spoke about […]

In one of the highest voter turnouts in the country, Rosh Ha’Ayin residents ousted Mayor Moshe Sinai in his bid for a third term, electing Shalom Ben Moshe by a 53-47 margin. Almost 21,000 votes were cast in the city of almost 40,000 residents. In […]

John Sharp gives thumbs up as Shai Piron and Texas Governor Rick Perry hold the signed agreement in front of Israeli President Shimon Peres. On Oct. 23, Texas A&M announced plans to build a campus in Nazareth, the first United States university to open a […]

Now that the move of Birmingham’s Trinity Medical Center from its Montclair Road campus to Highway 280 has been approved, there has been concern about what would become of the large property just down the road from the Levite Jewish Community Center, and what Trinity’s […]

A 15-story, $40 million apartment project is proposed for next door to Birmingham’s Temple Beth-El. The upscale development is being planned by Harbert Realty Services on the lot where the former Highland Diagnostic Center is, but is known to old-timers as the former Britling’s Cafeteria […]

Temple Sinai in Lake Charles will host a Small Congregation Scholar-in-Residence featuring Union of Reform Judaism culinary writer Tina Wasserman, Nov. 1 and 2. She will also be in Birmingham on Nov. 3. The Lake Charles weekend will include services and Torah study with Rabbi […]

Loyola University in New Orleans is hosting “American Jewish History Backwards and Forwards” with noted historian Jonathan Sarna on Oct. 30. A reception will begin at 6:45 p.m. with the lecture at Nunemaker Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Illustrating how the past can both inform and […]

In recent years there have been dozens of Honor Flights from across the country, bringing World War II veterans to Washington to view the National World War II Memorial. The one that Jackson’s Lou Shornick was on this week got a lot more media coverage […]