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An online petition drive seeks to thwart the rezoning and sale of Birmingham’s Knesseth Israel building, while the congregation’s leadership says the independent drive does not represent the congregation’s position. There will be a Mountain Brook zoning commission meeting on June 3 at 5:30 p.m. […]

“Driving Miss Daisy,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Atlanta-native Jewish writer Alfred Uhry that inspired the award-winning movie starring Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy, blossoms at Birmingham’s Theatre Downtown May 2 to 18. The play originally premiered off-Broadway in 1987 and won the Pulitzer Prize […]

Judge Sol and Jackie Gothard (file photo) Beth Israel in Metairie will have a weekend in remembrance of Jackie Gothard, who served as the congregation’s president during the Katrina aftermath and is credited with willing the congregation to survival in those uncertain times when the […]

Chabad of Poway, Calif. (Facebook photo) Though California is on the other side of the country, the April 27 shooting at Chabad in Poway, Calif., is resonating through the Deep South. A 19-year-old gunman entered the synagogue after 11 a.m. and began shooting, killing one […]

Alabama Senator Greg Albritton Alabama legislators are being criticized for bringing the Holocaust into their bills that are being considered in the current regular legislative session. Sen. Greg Albritton and Rep. Terri Collins both filed bills in their respective chambers, which if passed would make […]

This summer, Rabbi Joshua Pernick will become the new rabbi at Metairie’s Beth Israel, but for a preview, there is a meet and greet there on April 28 at 7 p.m. He will succeed Rabbi Gabe Greenberg at New Orleans’ modern Orthodox congregation after being […]

Several Jewish organizations in the New Orleans area will participate in this year’s GiveNOLA Day, a midnight-to-midnight online fundraising day that takes place on May 7. Now in its sixth year, almost 700 non-profits participate in GiveNOLA, and last year almost $5.6 million was raised […]

Le Petit Theatre in New Orleans is featuring “The Pianist of Willesden Lane” in May, starring internationally acclaimed pianist and storyteller Mona Golabek. Based on the book “The Children of Willesden Lane” by Golabek and Lee Cohen, the play is set in Vienna in 1938 […]

by Lee J. Green Rick Desloge grew up in the Jewish community in St. Louis, went to school in Indiana and lives in New York City, but he’s every bit a Jersey boy. Desloge plays Joe Pesci, Hal Miller, a deejay and even a French […]