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Twenty years ago, the Lucille Beeson Trust of Canterbury Methodist Church provided startup funding that enabled Birmingham’s Collat Jewish Family Services to begin providing personal care services. From an initial 10 clients, the program, which provides services that enable older adults on limited incomes to continue living […]

By Mike Wagenheim (JNS) — Ahead of a visit to Israel by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the Sunshine State’s chief financial officer told JNS that Norway is out of line in considering divesting from the Jewish state. Jimmy Patronis, the Florida CFO, sent a […]

On April 14, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed Alabama Senate Joint Resolution 8, which honors the 75th anniversary of Israel, and reaffirms the bonds of friendship and cooperation between Alabama and Israel. The resolution also marks the 80th anniversary of the Alabama Legislature’s call in […]

Yaniv Perets. Source: Twitter/Yaniv Perets. (JNS) — Two Jewish players helped propel Quinnipiac University in Connecticut to a championship on April 8 in the Frozen Four — the ice-hockey equivalent of the Final Four. The winning goal, which came 10 seconds into overtime, came on […]

Cartoonist Al Jaffee 2016 New York Comic Con at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York. Credit: Luigi Novi via Wikimedia Commons. (JNS) — Al Jaffee, born Abraham Jaffee in 1921 in Savannah, Ga., died in New York City on April 10. The […]

Last July, there was a lot of celebrating Israel in Birmingham as the World Games athletes brought home a record haul of medals. Several events are planned in the region to celebrate Israel’s 75th birthday. Here are those we had as of press time: Year […]

Anthony Russell and Dmitri Gaskin Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell and Dmitri Gaskin perform as Tsvey Brider, “Two Brothers,” but they had very different paths to Jewish music. Russell, who became an opera singer after growing up in California, is now a pioneer in Yiddish music. […]

Mushky Cohen is in Huntsville because of a Japanese diplomat. Mushky and Rabbi Moshe Cohen established Chabad of Huntsville in 2015, following in the footsteps of her grandfather, who helped establish Chabad in Montreal — after being rescued from Europe by Chiune Sugihara. Rabbi Moshe […]

By Richard Friedman Fourteen time zones from Birmingham, Gary Perlman laughed and shook his head. No, he admitted over Zoom, he never could have envisioned living his adult life in Japan. Moreover, he never could have imagined that he would become a driving force behind a […]