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The Birmingham Jewish Federation is kicking off its 2008 campaign with an ambitious goal of $2.4 million, and a start of over $2 million. In recent years, the Federation has been one of the quickest in the nation in terms of finishing. As in past […]

By Julie Schwartz New Orleans Jewish News Online “AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps” will bring idealistic and passionate young people to strengthen the rebuilding efforts in New Orleans beginning in the fall of 2008. AVODAH is enabling and energizing the next generation of Jews who […]

By Lee J. Green Deep South Jewish Voice With his father being a jewelry sales executive in New York City and a former college basketball player, Florida Gators’ junior forward and Jewish athlete Michael Weisenberg knows a gem of an opportunity when he seizes it. […]

A chance meeting in a New York taxi earlier this year partly led to a Torah celebration at Birmingham’s Beis Ariel Chabad Center on Dec. 2. Rabbi Yossi Posner was visiting New York, hailing a cab when he heard a voice behind him call out, […]

The Topolosky family will serve Beth Israel starting in August. Photo by Alan Smason By Alan Smason Deep South Jewish Voice Nearly two years after flooding related to Hurricane Katrina devastated its Lakeview property, Congregation Beth Israel announced plans to hire Uri Topolosky, 28, as […]

On Jan. 20, the National World War II Museum in New Orleans will host “Anne Frank: A History for Today,” an exhibit developed by the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and sponsored in North America by the Anne Frank Center USA. The exhibition, which will […]

By Lee Green Deep South Jewish Voice Two Jewish soccer players — one from Israel the other from Scotland — continue to push toward their goal of a successful career and athletic achievement in the United States. And senior Paul Sammeroff, along with freshman Ori […]

Sam Bowers, who started a violent offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan that hit Jewish targets in Mississippi in 1967, as well as killing three Civil Rights workers in Philadelphia in 1964, died on Nov. 5 at Parchman Prison in Mississippi. Born in New Orleans, […]

Rabbi Foster Kawaler of Congregation Agudath Achim blows the shofar at the start of A Night to Honor Israel at Broadmoor Assembly of G-d in Shreveport on Oct. 30. Over 700 attended the event, which was a salute to Israel and the local Jewish community […]