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Update (Sept. 10): Here are links to an introductory video about Rock Shabbat and the group’s first Havdalah event, held Sept. 8. Three friends who spend summers at Camp Ramah Darom are about to embark on a “road trip of American Jewish music.” Sam Rosenbaum […]

With the restoration of power at Anshe Sfard, and the resumption of Shabbat services there this coming weekend, all the New Orleans Jewish institutions are back up and running after Hurricane Isaac. The Jewish Federations of North America has opened a disaster relief fund for […]

For the first time in over two decades, there will be a new face in the executive director’s office at Birmingham’s Levite Jewish Community Center. Betzy Weinblatt-Lynch, who has been assistant executive director of the Memphis JCC since 2004, will succeed Garth Potts by the […]

On Sept. 18, Alabamians will go to the polls – albeit in very small numbers – to weigh in on a referendum on whether to allow the Legislature to take over $400 million in principal from the Alabama Trust Fund over the next three years. […]

The Greater New Orleans Section of the National Council of Jewish Women is presenting its 2012 Harold Salmon, Sr. Award to Ina Davis. The presentation is being made at the opening luncheon, Sept. 10 at 11:30 a.m. at the Audubon Clubhouse Café. As a young […]

It was a simple interview that ended the career of one of journalism’s most famous faces. On Sept. 11, the interviewer, Rabbi David Nesenoff, will speak in New Orleans about his experiences following the encounter with Helen Thomas. On May 26, 2010, Nesenoff and his […]

On Sept. 8, congregations throughout the region will usher in the High Holy Days season with Selichot services, which over the years have morphed into opportunities to have major speakers or programs. The journalists who unraveled a massive Torah fraud involving the Save-A-Torah Foundation will […]

With Isaac now in Missouri, the New Orleans Jewish community is starting to get back to normal, and those who left for the duration are making their way back — especially if they are among the fortunate ones with electricity. The Goldring/Woldenberg Jewish Community Campus […]

The word from New Orleans is that there has been no major damage to Jewish institutions in the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac, and the worst has passed. In a community update, Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans Executive Director Michael Weil said Isaac, downgraded to […]