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Jesse Unkenholz will receive the Joanie Plous Bayer Young Leadership Award Until he retires as executive director of the Birmingham Jewish Federation at the end of December, Richard Friedman will be the longest-tenured Federation executive director in the country, having served in that role since […]

The Marcuses at Regions Field, with Children’s in the background by Lee J. Green Allstate Insurance’s slogan is “you’re in good hands.” Thanks to Allstate insurance agent Nathan Marcus, hands at the Birmingham Barons games are waving to Children’s Hospital of Alabama patients, families and […]

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (SJL file) Three weeks after the Alabama Legislature came under fire for considering an anti-abortion bill that referenced the Holocaust, criticism is pouring in from most of the Jewish community now that the nation’s most restrictive abortion bill has passed and […]

Graffiti at Northshore Jewish Congregation in Mandeville, Sept. 2018 On April 30, the Anti-Defamation League released its annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, showing “near-historic levels of anti-Semitism in 2018, including a doubling of anti-Semitic assaults and the single deadliest attack against the Jewish community in […]

It was another successful GiveNOLA Day for Jewish agencies in the New Orleans area. The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans came in first in dollars raised among small organizations for the fifth year in a row, raising $109,571 from 225 donors, earning a $10,000 […]

Numerous groups in Tennessee are calling for the censure of a Memphis criminal court judge for a series of social media posts that “carry a dark message of hatred,” including reposting an article by a Holocaust denier that called on Jews to get over the […]

(Editor’s note: Much of the background is repeated from our April 19 piece, but this has been updated throughout). About a dozen white nationalists crashed a Holocaust March of Remembrance in Russellville, Ark., on May 5, part of the ongoing fallout over a controversy where […]

Jake Davidson, Jeannie Null and William Lamar The Hebrew term “tikkun olam,” which is used to describe social action in Judaism, can be translated as “repairing the planet.” With the inspiration and activism of 14-year-old Jeannie Null, Meridian teens and “close friends” William Lamar and […]

After the shooting at Tree of Life in Pittsburgh, there were vigils around the country where people of all races and faiths showed solidarity. After 50 Muslims were murdered in New Zealand, interfaith events were held at mosques, and after the Poway shooting, synagogues around […]