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Recently, Birmingham’s Collat Jewish Family Services doubled the size of its food closet, which served 139 families last year. The challenge now is to keep it stocked — and stocked properly. Local congregations do High Holiday drives, where bags are distributed on Rosh Hashanah, filled […]

Championship games often end with a round of fireworks. For the 30th annual New Orleans Synagogue Softball League championship game on Wednesday night, the fireworks were on the field. As Shir Chadash rallied in the seventh inning, a runner’s interference call nullified what would have […]

One Louisiana state representative in particular thought it was “preposterous” when Rep. Valarie Hodges was reported to have said that she thought the recently-passed vouchers in Louisiana would be only for Christian schools; certainly not for Muslim schools. That reaction came from Hodges herself. In […]

While the debate over a moment of silence in memory of 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Munich Olympics continues to cloud today’s Opening Ceremonies for the 2012 London Games, one of the 11 is memorialized in New Orleans. David Mark […]

Starting today, the Tulane School of Medicine is teaming up with the National World War II Museum to present an exhibit about eugenics and the “science of race” in the Nazi regime. “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race” is a traveling exhibition of the United […]

Rabbi Peter Rubinstein of the Central Synagogue in New York will be visiting Selma next month for an interactive discussion with the Jewish and general communities. He will be at Mishkan Israel on Aug. 19 at 3:30 p.m., speaking in the back social hall. While […]

The Jewish Outreach Institute and the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life announced a new partnership yesterday, to enhance the ISJL’s work with small Southern Jewish communities. Thanks to a grant from the Goldring/Woldenberg Foundation, ISJL Education Fellows will be provided with new tools to […]

The man assumed to have carried out a suicide terror attack against Israeli tourists in Bulgaria yesterday was carrying an identification that had a Baton Rouge address. Five Israeli tourists, a Bulgarian bus driver and the bomber were killed in the attack at the airport […]