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For many in Alabama’s Jewish community, controversial exclusionary comments made by newly-inaugurated Governor Robert Bentley on Jan. 17 are only half the story, though it is the story that made its way around the world. The other half of the story is that within 48 […]

This Chanukah, the Levite Jewish Community Center hopes members will give themselves the gift of film as it hosts the first annual Birmingham Jewish Community Film Festival during Chanukah, Dec. 4 and 5. “We have a very unique, high-quality Jewish community in the Birmingham area. […]

Jackson’s Beth Israel Congregation has announced a preliminary schedule as it celebrates its 150th anniversary next year. The main event will be a Grand Celebration Weekend and homecoming reunion the weekend of Sept. 15. Past congregants, rabbis and youth group members will be welcomed back. […]

Carol Wise will be honored by the New Orleans chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals at its National Philanthropy Day luncheon on Nov. 11. She will receive recognition as Outstanding Philanthropist. Wise is currently the treasurer of the Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana. “Carol […]

A partnership among Israel Bonds, the Birmingham Jewish Federation and the Birmingham Jewish Foundation will result in a unique community event on Dec. 12 at Temple Beth-El. Instead of the annual Bonds dinner and a separate event for the Federation and Foundation, the agencies will […]

In the spirit of double chai, there is double incentive to participate in the Sam Lapidus Montclair Run on Thanksgiving morning, Nov. 25. The run, coordinated by Birmingham’s Levite Jewish Community Center, allows individuals to get in some good exercise and “create more room for […]

This year’s annual People of the Book Festival includes a revival of People of the Film. The week-long celebration of books and Jewish authors at the Uptown Jewish Community Center in New Orleans will include the revival of the New Orleans Jewish Film Festival, spearheaded […]

Rev. Al B. Sutton, pastor of Sixth Avenue Baptist Church in Birmingham, one of the city’s largest black churches, surprised his flock this morning by announcing that he was leaving to start a new church, which will meet at Temple Emanu-El. Sutton attended Yom Kippur […]

Earlier today, the Jewish Federations of North America confirmed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will headline the 2010 General Assembly and Lion of Judah conventions in New Orleans next month. Over 4,000 delegates from around the world are expected to attend. The GA runs […]