2018

David Meola, assistant professor of history at the University of South Alabama, holds the journal “Der Jude,” created by Dr. Gabriel Riesser and published in the 1830s to advance Jewish emancipation throughout the German states. Starting this fall, students at the University of South Alabama […]

As part of the festivities for this year’s Rabbi Perry Nussbaum Civil Justice Lecture, a Mississippi Freedom Trail marker was dedicated at Jackson’s Beth Israel Congregation on April 13. The marker, “Bombings in the Jewish Community,” describes three Klan bombings and a fourth attempted bombing […]

Governor Phil Bryant signes bill permitting the State of Mississippi to invest in Israel bonds. At the ceremony: Rabbi Jeff Kurtz-Lendner of Beth Israel in Jackson; State Rep. Hank Zuber; Treasurer Lynn Fitch; State Rep. Donnie Hill; Governor Phil Bryant; Executive Director, Israel Bonds Southeast […]

Photo courtesy Touro Synagogue Kevin Margolius has been named the new cantor of Touro Synagogue in New Orleans. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Margolius graduated with a degree in quantitative economics from Tufts University, then attended Hebrew College, where he received a Master’s in Jewish […]

The coming school year will be one of change for Jewish Community Day School in Metairie. In addition to this fall’s addition of a sixth grade for the first time since before Katrina, and planning for an early childhood program that will open in August […]

With Alan Franco behind him, Macy Hart reads the Tzedakah Award that was presented to the Goldring Family Foundation “Create a Jewish Legacy,” the projected image said at the Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana’s Annual Event on March 11 at the Westin Canal Place in […]

Robert Atwell and Rachel Glazer as Adam and Eve Mark Twain, Bible critic? The historic Temple B’nai Israel in Natchez will be the scene for Twain’s “The Diaries of Adam and Eve,” with two performances the weekend of April 28. The production is presented by […]

His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco and Cheryl Landrieu unveil plaque marking birthplace of Princess Alice in New Orleans New Orleans is known for its Mardi Gras royalty, but there is one example of actual royalty from New Orleans, and she was Jewish. […]

On June 15, Rabbi Stephen Slater will become the rabbi of Birmingham’s Temple Beth-El, the largest Conservative congregation in Alabama. Slater is in his final year of studies before ordination at Hebrew College in Boston. He has been the student rabbi at Shaaray Tefila, a […]