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Florina Newcomb and Amanda Loflin By Richard Friedman Having watched the new film “Image of Victory,” the true story of one of the most gripping battles of Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, I can’t get the movie out of my mind as I reflect on […]

Jeff Brown and Jimmy Stewart By Richard Friedman When Jeff Brown approached Israel’s Western Wall a while back, to deposit a prayer note into its ancient crevices, this Lutheran Midwesterner never could have imagined that one day he would wind up working for the Jewish […]

By Richard Friedman Mark Pinsky is a guy who’s chosen a path rarely taken. He’s merged his fascination with brutal crimes with his considerable investigative journalism skills, infusing it all with a lifelong love for Judaism and Israel as he’s lived a life of adventure […]

Swin Cash and Will Snowden The South Central region of the Anti-Defamation League is holding its second “annual” In Concert Against Hate, Sept. 29 at the New Orleans Jazz Market. After the first concert, there was a two-year hiatus due to Covid. The event will […]

In the Sculpture Garden (SJL file) Susan Taylor, the director of the New Orleans Museum of Art, said benefactor Sydney Besthoff III envisioned the museum’s sculpture garden as “a joyful place.” That will certainly be the case on Sept. 23, as the museum holds its […]

Everything was planned out — speakers lined up, venues reserved and community Shabbat services planned for the biennial LimmudFest New Orleans in March 2020. Then, 11 days before the weekend of Jewish learning was to begin, it was “postponed” because of this new virus called […]

Photo from Savannah Theatre/Facebook Henry Stern was born in Germany just before World War II, but the playwright of a new musical, “We’ll Meet Again,” says Stern’s life is “a uniquely American story.” Stern grew up in Opelika and became a beloved member of the […]

This Shabbat will be the final one in Birmingham for Knesseth Israel Rabbi Moshe Rube. In an open letter released on Aug. 22, he said that he has accepted the position of senior rabbi at Auckland Hebrew Congregation in Auckland, New Zealand, and he plans […]

The Alabama Holocaust Education Center in Birmingham announced that Susan Braden-Aresco, currently the director of strategic partnerships at the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities in New York City, will be the new AHEC executive director. She arrives as the longtime […]