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Congregation Beth Israel on the Mississippi Coast will have its second annual International Food and Wine Festival. Sponsored by the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Biloxi, which is also the event’s location, the June 17 fundraiser includes a silent auction, live entertainment, door prizes […]

Delegates to the Jewish Community Centers Association biennial convention in Atlanta in May received small bottles of Tabasco sauce. It wasn’t a comment on the caterer, or a memento of Atlanta — it was the announcement of New Orleans as the site for the next […]

An unprecedented 13 inches of rain inundated Central Tennessee on May 1 and 2, causing the Cumberland River to overflow into Nashville and drawing comparisons to the New Orleans flooding following Hurricane Katrina five years ago. The Gordon Jewish Community Center became a Red Cross […]

The story of one of the South’s most beloved names in retailing begins with a smuggling operation out of Nazi Germany. That story will be recounted by Hans Sternberg, author of “We Were Merchants: The Sternberg Family and the Story of Goudchaux’s and Maison Blanche […]

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The Jewish Council for Public Affairs, which is the national organization of Federation Jewish Community Relations Committees, will hold its annual African-American/Jewish Community Leaders Mission in Birmingham this year. This is the third year that JCPA is organizing the mission. The previous two times, New […]

The second annual “Kicking for Kids” tournament will kick off summer at the New Orleans Jewish Community Center, raising money and awareness for children’s programs at the JCC. Twelve teams will participate in the double-elimination tournament on May 23 at the Uptown JCC. Teams consist […]

Photo by Alan Smason Members of the executive board and past presidents of Congregation Beth Israel prepare to break ground. Front row from left: Alex Barkoff, Irwin Lachoff, Myron Goldberg, Mike Gertler, Roselle Ungar, Jackie Gothard, Sol Gothard, Ben Gothard, Eddie Gothard and Alan Katz. […]

New Orleans-based Jewish Children’s Regional Services has been given a four-star rating by Charity Navigator, the highest rating the evaluation service gives. Ned Goldberg, JCRS executive director, said Harold Steinberg of Memphis asked him at a board meeting in January whether the organization had applied […]