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By Kent Osband Last month, your vice-president issued two open letters to the Mountain Brook Schools community, berating MBS leaders for canceling a contract with the ADL for anti-bias education and impugning the motives of critics of the ADL program. As a highly educated, cosmopolitan […]

As Ned Goldberg steps down after 33 years as executive director of Jewish Children’s Regional Service, a familiar face will be succeeding him. New Orleans native Mark Rubin, who joined the social service agency in September 2012 as its first-ever development director, will step into […]

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards at signing of collaboration agreement between the Water Institute of the Gulf in Baton Rouge and Israel’s Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, at Ben Gurion University on Oct. 29, 2018. The Abraham Accords were signed between Israel and four Arab […]

Temple Sinai, Lake Charles After several statewide Zooms that brought Jewish community leaders from across Louisiana together for discussions on how to help the Lake Charles community after Hurricane Laura hit the area last August, a simple question emerged: Why get together only when there […]

Judge Roy Moore and “Erran Morad” (Screenshot) A Federal judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by twice-ousted Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore against actor Sacha Baron Cohen. In a 26-page ruling on the $95 million suit, Judge John P. Cronan of the […]

Mountain Brook High School. Photo from MBHS website. After a city council meeting where Mountain Brook residents on both sides made remarks about the recent decision by city schools to disassociate from the Anti-Defamation League’s anti-bias training, opponents of the decision are fighting back. On […]

Michael Pizitz (Temple Emanu-El photo) and Frances Foster White (Birmingham Times photo/Ariel Worthy) By Richard Friedman It was a time long ago. So much has changed that it’s hard to remember such a situation once existed. But it did. For decades there was a brutal […]

By Richard Friedman Many of the “lanterns” that helped light the way for the Birmingham Civil Rights movement came from the city’s Jewish community at a time when Jews in Birmingham were facing their own challenges. That, and the courage that some of Birmingham’s best […]

By Richard Friedman  Those who tuned into “An evening with The Ballerina of Auschwitz” on June 3, presented by the Chabads of Louisiana, Metairie and Baton Rouge, left with much to think about. The program featured well-known Holocaust survivor Edith Eva Eger, who has written an internationally best-selling memoir, “The […]