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Rabbi PJ Schwartz is returning to the South as the new rabbi at Temple B’nai Sholom in Huntsville, with a boost from the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Schwartz grew up in a small community in upstate South Carolina, where his synagogue in Greenville was […]

Rabbi Jonathan Jackson was selected as the new rabbi for Temple Emanu-El in Dothan. For the past year, Rabbi Michael Shields of Tallahassee has been the interim rabbi, since the retirement of Cantor Neil Schwartz in the summer of 2022. Shields said Jackson “has a […]

Seth Penn, Consul General Anat Sultan-Dadon and Chief Larry Smith at a November 2021 ceremony. The Alabama-Israel Task Force will honor Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker and Chief Larry Smith of the Cherokee Tribe of Northeast Alabama at an Alabama-Israel Leadership Gala honoring […]

Original “Survivors” featured in Birmingham, Pensacola commemorations Holocaust commemorations in Pensacola and Birmingham will feature “Survivors,” a play written by Deborah Layman based on the lived of six Birmingham Holocaust survivors. Layman recently moved to Pensacola. The six survivors in the play, along with other […]

Henry Kline Memorial Congregation building in Rolling Fork on April 1, as roof tarps cover the remaining houses in the area. Photo by Nadav Herman The March 24 tornado that devastated most of Rolling Fork was the third incident in as many months where a […]

In February, Cantor Rebecca Garfein of New York took part in a cantorial weekend at Temple Sinai in New Orleans. It looks like she will be staying a while. On March 28, the congregation announced that Garfein will become their next cantor, succeeding Cantor Joel […]

Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta. Credit: DXR via Wikimedia Commons. (JNS) — By the wee hours of the morning on March 30, a deadline came and passed without the Georgia State Senate voting on an antisemitism bill. Senators threw paper in the air like confetti […]

By Lee J. Green Tradition, family, community and storytelling are central to Judaism and to the shining “Bright Star,” opening March 31 and running through April 16 at Birmingham’s Red Mountain Theatre. “I think this show says so much about community, family, love, hope and […]

A swastika was found on a long-abandoned hospital in Ensley, near Birmingham, last week, along with a painted banner from the white supremacist Patriot Front. The annual audit of antisemitic incidents in the United States hit an all-time high, with 3,697 incidents of assault, harassment […]