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Photo courtesy WWL-TV By Richard Friedman Discovering how his Jewish identity shapes TV journalist David Hammer’s award-winning investigative reporting takes some investigating. But if you dig you come to understand how his commitment to the Jewish concept of Tikkun Olam — repairing the world — […]

Israel’s president Isaac Herzog and Rebecca Gilbert at the recent Chanukah menorah lighting. It’s not every Chanukah that a young woman from Georgia who graduated from the University of Alabama gets to light candles with the president of Israel. Yet that was exactly the case […]

The Sherry and Alan Leventhal Family Foundation Center for Interfaith Families in New Orleans announced a partnership with 18Doors, along with a search for the Center’s next executive director. Launched in 2020, the Sherry and Alan Leventhal Center for Interfaith Families — an in-house initiative […]

Rami Elhanan, Laila Alsheikh and Herb Keinon By Richard Friedman As part of its webinar series “Looking Toward the Future,” the Louisiana Jewish Coalition delved into one of the most complex of issues, one fraught with emotion and tragedy, yet, at times, opportunity and even […]

Red Mountain Theatre Company paused rehearsal for the Holiday Spectacular so Jewish cast members London Pigott and Kat Senter could light the menorah on the first night of Chanukah By Lee J. Green The Festival of Lights will be in the spotlight at the Red […]

By Richard Friedman  Being a Jewish Federation director is no easy thing these days. It’s a complicated job that requires a range of skills in addition to having the ability to stay calm and clear-headed in a sea of emotional pulls. The Montgomery-based Jewish Federation of Central […]

After years of planning, the board of the Louisiana Community Mikvah announced that a groundbreaking will take place on Dec. 16 at noon. The Oscar J. Tolmas Community Mikvah will be a free-standing building located behind Shir Chadash in Metairie. It is a joint project […]

The Attorneys General of Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and Arkansas are among 12 signatories to a letter by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt calling out Unilever for failing to take action against the Ben & Jerry’s boycott of Israel. Thus far, hundreds of millions of dollars […]

Consul General Anat Sultan-Dadon (left) talks with Chief Larry Smith (right) and Seth Penn, as John Buhler of the Alabama-Israel Task Force looks on. In September, when the Northeast Alabama Cherokee issued a declaration of support for the “sovereign Jewish nation” of Israel and the […]