2018

The sukkah at Shir Chadash in Metairie will be dedicated in honor of the Brener family, with Rabbi Anne Brener visiting for the weekend. Full story below. Alabama The Bais Ariel Chabad Center in Birmingham will have Pizza in the Hut and a drum circle, […]

The Southern Jewish Historical Society will hold its annual convention in Alabama’s oldest Jewish community, in Mobile the weekend of Oct. 26. The conference’s theme will be “Southern Jews, American Citizens,” with an emphasis on local stories. The conference will focus on how Jews living […]

Hillel Connections participants take time out to volunteer at Oasis Gardens If the first summer is any indication, a lot of Jewish students at the University of Alabama will want to spend next summer in Birmingham. Seven students took part in the inaugural Hillel Connections […]

As statements of support continue to come in, the Northshore Jewish Congregation in Mandeville will hold a community gathering on Sept. 16 at 4 p.m., as a response to last week’s anti-Semitic vandalism at the synagogue. The Sept. 16 event will be “a show of […]

National magazines have lauded Birmingham’s burgeoning and diverse culinary scene, and this past year Birmingham’s Highlands Bar and Grill won the James Beard Award for Most Outstanding Restaurant in America. But Adam Grusin, who worked at two of the other celebrated restaurants owned by Highlands […]

While the High Holy Days are often a time to bask in the comfortable and familiar, in an unusually high number of cases, congregants will need a scorecard to tell who the players are. Some congregations have new full-time rabbis, such as Rabbi Stephen Slater […]

Less than a week before Rosh Hashanah, anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered on the back wall of Northshore Jewish Congregation in Mandeville, 25 miles north of New Orleans, on Wednesday. A couple of neighbors entered the building to ask administrator Rebecca Slifkin if she was aware […]

Torah Academy in Metairie made a huge step forward in its Burn the Mortgage Campaign with the announcement of a $1.8 million gift that will result in the renaming of the school. On Sept. 13, the school will become the Joseph and Rosina Slater Torah […]

Robert Kohn carried Touro Synagogue’s 200-year-old “mystery Torah” from the sanctuary to the congregation’s historical display, during a January 19 dedication ceremony. In January, Touro Synagogue placed its “mystery Torah,” which turned out to be over 200 years ago, in a display case in its […]