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Samantha Dubrinsky-Clayton, who has been the interim executive director at Birmingham’s Levite Jewish Community Center since October 2018, was named executive director, effective Jan. 1. A Birmingham native, Dubrinsky-Clayton is looking forward to leading one of the most important community institutions in Birmingham.  “The LJCC […]

By Clarence Jones Recently, while watching the news, I was saddened, like many Americans, to hear of the Jersey City shooting, an incident of blatant antisemitism against the Orthodox Jewish community, in which two armed assailants stormed a kosher market killing four innocent people and […]

Rabbi David Gerber, Rabbi Lexi Erdheim and Cantorial Soloist Tory May at the pre-Rosh Hashanah “Sinners and Saints” early service for those attending the Saints game on the first night of the holiday. After 32 years as cantorial soloist and musical director at Gates of […]

2016 concert at B’nai Israel, Natchez The Natchez Festival of Music and the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life present the second annual “Cabaret Under the Dome” at Natchez’s historic Temple B’nai Israel on Jan. 9 at 7 p.m. This evening of Broadway and opera […]

Sheikh Nael Mossran (screenshot courtesy MEMRI) In a Friday sermon on Dec. 22, Palestinian Sheikh Nael Mossran praised Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, who killed three U.S. service members and injured eight at the Pensacola Naval Station in a Dec. 6 shooting, before he was killed by […]

Beth Shalom in Baton Rouge kicks off its 75th anniversary celebration with a January weekend that includes a visit by Union for Reform Judaism President Rabbi Rick Jacobs. On Jan. 10 at 6:30 p.m., there will be a musical Shabbat service, where Jacobs will speak. […]

The Birmingham Holocaust Education Center announced it will be temporarily relocating to Temple Emanu-El, as of Dec. 17. The Bayer Properties building just up the street has been home to the BHEC, rent free, for the past 15 years. “The BHEC has been so appreciative […]

As the number of Holocaust survivors dwindles, New Orleanians will have a chance to hear the first-hand account of Irving Roth, age 90, who survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. In partnership with Chabad of Louisiana, Roth will share his story of survival and grit […]

Penny with her parents, Benjamin and Lt. Col Carol Berman, at her mother’s promotion ceremony on Sept. 15 at Beth Israel, Metairie While Penny Berman’s Bat Mitzvah project is entitled Pennies for Penny, she has a far greater goal than pennies — she hopes to […]