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The calls to Chabad of Nashville are frequent: Someone is visiting Nashville on vacation or for a conference, and needs to find kosher food. Realizing the options are limited, especially for those seeking meals with meat or chicken, Chabad of Nashville has launched Nashville Kosher […]

An internationally-known Jewish musician from California is hitting the road in a van and making his first tour of the South, and hopes to line up appearances in communities along the way. Marshall Voit is a San Diego native, the son of a Reform rabbi […]

Jewish communities in the region are responding to events in New Zealand, where a gunman killed at least 49 people at two mosques. The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans and the Anti-Defamation League South-Central Region issued a joint statement. “We are sickened by this act […]

The same week that Bradley Philipson marked the 30th anniversary of his Bar Mitzvah at Touro Synagogue, he was named the new head of school at Jewish Community Day School in Metairie. Search committee chair Michael Wasserman made the announcement on March 13. Philipson will […]

Lexi Erdheim, student rabbi at Gates of Prayer in Metairie, will be hanging around after graduation. Gates of Prayer President David Dulitz announced that Erdheim will become the congregation’s new assistant rabbi, after her upcoming ordination at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los […]

If you have fashion, you have to have stores to sell it. This year’s honoree at the Jewish Children’s Regional Service gala, “Jewish Roots of Fashion,” comes from a small town store that had a rich history. Betty Bloch Kohn has lived in New Orleans […]

Rabbi Perry Nussbaum display at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Fifty years after the first Freedom Seder was held in Washington, the Mississippi Freedom Seder will make its debut in Jackson. The Museum of Mississippi History, the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute […]

Pizmon, the co-ed pluralistic Jewish a cappella group from Columbia University, Barnard College and the Jewish Theological Seminary, will be in the region on an Alternative Spring Break concert tour this month. Established in 1987 as the first collegiate Jewish a capella group, Pizmon has […]

Yes, Waffles on Maple in New Orleans is still certified kosher. Confusion apparently arose because the original Uptown location of Waffles on Maple has changed certification, from the Louisiana Kashrut Commission to oversight by Rabbi Gabe Greenberg of the Orthodox congregation Beth Israel in Metairie. […]