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On Sept. 8, congregations throughout the region will usher in the High Holy Days season with Selichot services, which over the years have morphed into opportunities to have major speakers or programs. The journalists who unraveled a massive Torah fraud involving the Save-A-Torah Foundation will […]

With Isaac now in Missouri, the New Orleans Jewish community is starting to get back to normal, and those who left for the duration are making their way back — especially if they are among the fortunate ones with electricity. The Goldring/Woldenberg Jewish Community Campus […]

The word from New Orleans is that there has been no major damage to Jewish institutions in the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac, and the worst has passed. In a community update, Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans Executive Director Michael Weil said Isaac, downgraded to […]

Synagogue dedications, while always joyous, rarely have a large significance outside of their local communities. Not so with Sunday’s dedication of Beth Israel in New Orleans (More photos here). Numerous speakers stated that the Orthodox congregation’s dedication ceremony should reverberate throughout the Jewish world. Rabbi […]

By Lee J. Green Marie Pittler hopes to re-open the kosher Israeli-style Sababa restaurant soon, and plans to enhance the dining experience with traditional Jewish/deli fare, cakes and desserts, beer and wine and live acoustic entertainment. Sababa, the community’s only full-scale sit-down kosher restaurant, has […]

Two $1 million gifts will help support Jewish life on campus at the College of Charleston, and benefit children of clergy from all faiths. The two pledges were made by Regina and Samuel Shapiro of Atlanta, who wanted to ensure that Jewish student life flourished […]

It isn’t often that an Orthodox congregation dedicates a new building by starting a procession at a Reform congregation. But in New Orleans, that’s par for the course, as Hurricane Katrina and the resulting flood from the levee failure in 2005 ushered in an unusual […]

By Lee J. Green Since Birmingham’s Levite Jewish Community Center has become known as a place focused on health and wellness, it is a fitting site as one of the locations for a major, nationwide American Cancer Society study. To better understand ways to prevent […]

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 […]