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It is sad but not surprising that the echoes of the bullets at Tree of Life in Pittsburgh had barely faded when politics, partisanship and accusations started to take over. As is often the case in complex stories and the rush to get information out, […]

Chanukah at Temple Beth El in Pensacola in 2017 (SJL file) Here is a list of Chanukah events in the region. Alabama: Anniston’s Temple Beth El will have its Chanukah celebration and covered dish dinner, Dec. 7 at 6:30 p.m. The dinner will be followed […]

The idea that there is a story to be told in how food is a vital part of the Southern Jewish experience propelled Marcie Cohen Ferris to a career in food studies, leading to her recognition in October with the Southern Foodways Alliance’s Craig Claiborne […]

As many seats in the U.S. House of Representatives switched from Republican to Democrat, Elaine Luria was part of the trend in a narrow victory over incumbent Scott Taylor in Virginia’s second district. Luria, a native of Birmingham’s Jewish community who also has family in […]

Hidden Child Elsa Ross, by David Kassan Artist David Kassan, who has a project that paints and documents survivors of the Holocaust, will be in residence at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Nov. 12 to 16, when he will make a portrait of […]

At the Oct. 25 launch of the Taube Family Holocaust Education Program at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Sean Taube of Taube Philanthropies discusses his father Tad Taube’s experience fleeing Poland as a child on the eve of WWII in 1939, and dedicating […]

Birmingham has long been known as the Pittsburgh of the South, because of the city’s iron and steel manufacturing history. A couple of days after a gunman opened fire at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, a crowd of over 2000 assembled for an evening […]

Members of the New Orleans City Council spoke at the Shir Chadash remembrance on Oct. 28 One day after 11 Jews were murdered during Shabbat services at Tree of Life in Pittsburgh, an overflow crowd filled the sanctuary and social hall of Shir Chadash in […]

Before Pittsburgh, where was the worst attack on a Jewish prayer service in U.S. history? Gadsden, Alabama. Gary Zola, director of the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, told the Cincinnati Enquirer that the Pittsburgh attack was the first time in U.S. history that Jews were […]