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At the December 2018 scholarship presentation: The Jones family, Sam, Mark and Beth, administrators of the Link estate; Arkansas Tech President Robin E. Bowen; Jeff Woods, dean of the College of Arts and Humanities; David Blanks, head of the Department of History and Political Science. […]

With Macy Hart at the April 6 gala were Michele Schipper, Jackson; Joel Ashner,  Memphis; Patti Micklin, Louisville, Col.; Rachel Reagler Schulman, Highland Park, Ill. In a career going back to the 1960s, Macy Hart has been the face of the Southern Jewish experience. On […]

Riva Hirsch speaks at Auburn University at Montgomery’s commemoration on April 11. Temple Emanu-El, the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center, and two other Southern communities, Augusta and Savannah, have partnered to bring Alexandra Senfft to speak. She will be at Emanu-El on April 25 at 5:45 […]

Graphic from the conference website As an alumnus of the University of Virginia, throwing shade at the University of North Carolina or Duke University is something that comes naturally (*cough* March Madness), and is generally reciprocated. Of course, it’s all in good fun. Mostly. But […]

While there was uncharacteristic uncertainty over the headliner of this year’s New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, there has been no such turmoil at Touro Synagogue, as the Grammy-winning Lost Bayou Ramblers will headline the 28th annual JazzFest Shabbat, with special guest Aurora Nealand. The […]

Photo courtesy GoFundMe page The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans and the Anti-Defamation League regional office in New Orleans issued a joint statement of solidarity with the three historically-black churches that were torched in central Louisiana in the past couple of weeks. The first […]

Veteran Israeli journalist Gil Hoffman will be in Birmingham for a series of talks, including a community-wide presentation at Knesseth Israel. Hoffman has been the chief political correspondent and analyst for The Jerusalem Post for 20 years. He teaches international communications at Israel’s College of […]

Jackson’s Beth Israel, home of the only full-time rabbinic pulpit in Mississippi, will have a new rabbi as of July 1, Rabbi Joseph Rosen. Rosen grew up in Rochester, Minn., where both of his parents work for the Mayo Clinic. “Their dedication to helping others […]

Agudath Achim in Shreveport announced that Rabbi Sydni Adler will become their next rabbi, starting June 17, and she will be moving to Shreveport with her fiancé, Rabbi Feivel Rubinstein. Adler will succeed Cantor Neil Schwartz. She will be ordained this May at the Ziegler […]