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Crowd outside the theater. Photo courtesy the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies By Rafael Medoff Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this year will be commemorated just before the 75th anniversary of a remarkable but little-known campaign by American Zionists and African-Americans that helped […]

Unilever Canada sign on their head office in Toronto, Canada. Credit: JHVEPhoto/Shutterstock. By Brandy Gibson Something is rotten in Vermont. Ben & Jerry’s, perhaps the state’s most iconic global brand, decided in July to embrace and participate in the global discriminatory and antisemitic movement to […]

Cy Steiner and Shelley Stewart By Richard Friedman It was 1958.  Not an easy time for Blacks in the Deep South. No one knew that better than Shelley Stewart, a young Birmingham-based African-American disc jockey who was gaining a wide following across the region. He […]

A Crime on the Bayou For the 16th installment of the annual Baton Rouge Jewish Film Festival, the festival is looking locally for its programming. At press time, just days before the festival was to return with in-person screenings this year, the Omicron variant outbreak […]

The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in New Orleans was named to the USA Today Readers’ Choice 10Best list for Best New Attraction in 2021. A panel of experts came up with the initial 20 nominees, and the top 10 were decided by popular […]

After holding a virtual event last year, the Mobile Jewish Film Festival was planning on a hybrid event this year, returning to its model of numerous films in several venues, while preserving a virtual option for all but one of the films. But at the […]

The Chabad Jewish Center in Panama City Beach has signed a contract on a new facility that will be renovated and become the new Chabad Center. The new building is on Miracle Strip Loop, close to where they are currently renting a space. Rabbi Mendel […]

Transition: Outgoing board chair Joshua Force and incoming board chair Brian Katz. Photos by Donna Matherne The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans unveiled its new strategic plan at its annual celebration on Dec. 8 at the Audubon Tea Room. But that presentation and the […]

Rabbi Shlomo Litvin, co-director of Chabad of the Bluegrass, embraces a resident in one of Kentucky’s hard-hit areas after a series of tornadoes decimated homes and other buildings in parts of the state, December 2021. Source: Rabbi Sholom Litvin/Twitter. By Faygie Holt and SJL reports […]