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Controversy swirled over Spain Park High School in Hoover, a Birmingham suburb, after a video went viral last weekend where students used slurs in talking about blacks and Jews. The video shows students drinking at a party that was not on school property. After one […]

Here is a list of Purim events in the region: Alabama Anniston’s Temple Beth El will have a Purim service with Rabbi Lauren Cohn on March 15 at 7:30 p.m. Birmingham’s Knesseth Israel will have a Hawaiian Purim, March 20, with the megillah reading at […]

After a month and a half of controversy, Angela Davis spoke in Birmingham on Feb. 16, though in a much larger venue than originally planned. Her appearance was the culmination of a long saga of twists and turns, after the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute announced […]

While anti-Israel groups condemn police best practices training and exchanges with Israel, many law enforcement groups have stepped forward to rebuke such attacks. A major group organizing such trips is the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange, which is based at Georgia State University. The Anti-Defamation […]

Nicole Hockley Nicole Hockley, founder and managing director of Sandy Hook Promise, will keynote the March 12 general meeting of the National Council of Jewish Women’s Greater New Orleans Section at the Uptown Jewish Community Center. Her son Dylan was one of 20 first-graders killed […]

Barry Silverman will be presented the Joshua Award by the Mobile Area Jewish Federation at a March 16 event at Springhill Avenue Temple, in recognition of his dedicated service to the Federation.  While he has been active in several areas, of particular note in selecting […]

Rabbi Katie Bauman, second from right, will become the new senior rabbi at Touro Synagogue in New Orleans this summer (photo courtesy Touro). When Rabbi Katie Bauman takes over as rabbi of Touro Synagogue, nobody will need to show her around New Orleans. The congregation […]

Eighteen years ago, the American Hebrew Academy opened in Greensboro, N.C., as the realization of one man’s dream for a high-caliber Jewish boarding high school. Glenn Drew, the academy’s chief executive officer, said his uncle, Chico Sabbah, “would be ecstatic at what his vision has […]

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant and Israeli Consul General Lior Haiat visit the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem last November. (Update: On March 6, the Senate passed the bill, 34-8, sending it to Gov. Phil Bryant for his signature). Mississippi is looking to join its neighbors […]