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Members of the Birmingham and New Orleans Jewish communities recently visited Partnership 2000 sister city Rosh Ha’Ayin to help inaugurate the Partnership 2000 Park. Birmingham’s Jewish community has an almost 30-year connection to Rosh Ha’Ayin, and New Orleans was also paired with the town of […]

A Jewish ceremony that happens once every 28 years will take place this month. Birkat Hachamah, or Blessing of the Sun, is done according to calculations done by the ancient rabbis. The calculations showed that every 28 years — 10,227 days — the sun is […]

Temple Emanu-El, Canterbury United Methodist Church and the Birmingham Islamic Society are co-hosting a comedy night designed to bridge gaps, increase understanding, and foster better relations among the three faiths. On April 19, comedians Rabbi Bob Alper, Azhar Usman and Nazareth Rizkallah will bring a […]

From staff and JTA reports An unsuccessful terror attack at the Lev Hamifratz mall in Haifa on March 21 reverberated in the Deep South as two families in Birmingham’s Jewish community had a close call. Talor Bearman and Kayla Perlstein, both from Birmingham, were in […]

The Anti-Defamation League announced that it will host the world premiere screening of “The People v. Leo Frank,” a television documentary shedding important new light on the trial and subsequent lynching of Jewish Atlanta businessman Leo Frank. The screening will be held on April 30 […]

Two area professors are among those joining an international — albeit mostly unsuccessful — call for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel. In late January, the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel responded to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic […]

On Feb. 24, members of Tuscaloosa’s Temple Emanu-El were joined by University of Alabama officials for the groundbreaking of the congregation’s new building. The groundbreaking was the next step in a process that is bringing Emanu-El to campus, to be situated next door to a […]

If one looks throughout the Middle East, radical anti-West forces are using the philosophies and tactics of one man — a man who befriended Adolf Hitler during World War II and was actively working on a plan to replicate the Holocaust in the Middle East. […]

Alabama viewers of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” on ABC will see a familiar name in an upcoming episode. Aronov Homes announced on Feb. 2 that it was joining the Emmy award-winning show in building a home for a local family over the course of one […]