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The High Holy Days season kicks off with Selichot, an evening service following Shabbat that begins the themes of repentance and forgiveness. Congregations across the region are holding special events the night of Sept. 20 (except as noted). Birmingham’s Temple Emanu-El will screen “The Jewish […]

Cantor David Mintz of Touro Synagogue leads Hatikvah, with Carol Wise, Alan Franco, Michael Weil and Morton Katz. Campaign success and the definition of membership as it pertains to non-Jewish donors were two hot topics at the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans’ annual meeting […]

Plans were rolling along for this year’s Louisiana Film Prize, a weekend festival in Shreveport, when the sister of executive director Gregory Kallenberg told him she would not be there this year. She would be at services. Yom Kippur services. Kallenberg quickly looked at the […]

Photo courtesy Mississippi State Athletic Dept. Jacob Sanford “Jack” Cristil, the legendary voice of Mississippi State University athletics, died on Sept. 7 at the age of 88. “As a lifelong Bulldog, my heart is heavy at learning of the passing of legendary MSU broadcaster Jack […]

Editor’s Note: This was originally published in October 2010, but an al.com feature on odd street names in Alabama this week prompted us to post it online. The city of Gardendale, located about 10 miles north of Birmingham, has among its amenities a large municipal […]

The National Geographic IMAX film “Jerusalem” that has been screening at Birmingham’s McWane Center this summer opens at the Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center in Mobile on Sept. 13. In Mobile, the movie will be accompanied by two complementary exhibits and there will be a […]

Just days after it was announced that there would be a new Chabad center along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the Mississippi center picked up a new neighbor. Rabbi Yosef and Bina Goldwasser are setting up Chabad of Mobile this month after visiting the community earlier […]

And then there was one. With Rabbi Akiva and Hannah Hall moving to the Mississippi Coast this month to set up Chabad of Southern Mississippi, South Dakota is the only state in the country without a Chabad presence. What makes this move even more unusual […]