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By Larisa Thomason On Feb. 12, Temple B’nai Sholom in Huntsville hosted 27 weddings in a single day — many more than in the previous decade — and the congregation’s rabbi didn’t officiate at a single one. Instead, Rabbi Elizabeth Bahar welcomed local ministers and […]

After exercising his passion for Italian food for several years, Alon Shaya is looking to his roots in his new venture, Shaya, which is having a soft opening this week. The restaurant will have traditional and modern Israeli cuisine, influenced by his past and his […]

On Feb. 22, thousands of runners will take to the streets of Birmingham for the Mercedes Marathon. Among them will be a few dozen members of Team Friendship, including Rabbi Yossi “The Runnin’ Rabbi” Friedman from Chabad of Alabama. Team Friendship is participating as a […]

Timing? The Atlanta-based Southern Jewish Resource Network for Gender and Sexual Diversity had planned its first Birmingham event for Feb. 23 before the court ruling came out. Details below. With Alabama poised to have same-sex marriages recognized, Rabbi Jonathan Miller said “it is nice to […]

When the organizers of the Mobile Jewish Film Festival decided to have Nancy Spielberg’s documentary, “Above and Beyond: The Birth of the Israeli Air Force” as the first Reita Franco Memorial Film, they had no idea just how fitting that choice would be. Reita Franco, […]

For Maggie Anton, writing “Rav Hisda’s Daughter” and “Enchantress” was an unexpected magical experience, and she will finish her current book tour in a city known for magic, New Orleans. The author of the successful Rashi’s Daughters trilogy, Anton set out to explore Talmudic times […]

Roselle Ungar has been hired as the new executive director of Jewish Family Service of Greater New Orleans, starting her new position on Jan. 28. A New Orleans native, Ungar was approved at a board vote on Jan. 21. She had been serving as president […]

Medea Benjamin being interviewed on Iranian television last fall (courtesy ADL) A Jan. 13 panel at the University of Alabama at Birmingham billed as two Nobel Peace Prize nominees discussing approaches to peace may not be what it seems. The Birmingham Interfaith Human Rights Committee, […]

Anshe Sfard at the 2014 Martin Luther King Day Parade in New Orleans Anshe Sfard in New Orleans is doing a weekend of programming in observance of Martin Luther King Day. The weekend will start with Shabbat services on Jan. 16 at 6:30 p.m., followed […]