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April 26, 2010
April 26, 2010
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The family of Judy Abroms is having an 80th birthday party for her, and everyone is invited. Tony Award-winning playwright, poet and performer Sarah Jones will be the featured performer at “Hands Up Together,” the second annual fundraising celebration for Birmingham’s Collat Jewish Family Services, […]
April 24, 2010
April 24, 2010
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With two new teams added to this year’s Bill Peetluk Memorial Lag B’Omer Softball Invitational, the drama increased exponentially as one of the new teams, “You Belong in Birmingham,” defeated the combined Knesseth Israel/Chabad squad 18-16 in the championship game on April 18. The winning […]
April 21, 2010
April 21, 2010
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Old memories will be revisited and new “Memories” will be made on May 1, as nationally acclaimed Barbra Streisand tribute artist Carla Del Villaggio headlines a gala celebrating 50 years of theatre at Birmingham’s Levite Jewish Community Center. Theatre LJCC, which was known until the […]
April 11, 2010
April 11, 2010
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With the New Orleans Saints’ spectacular rise this past season, it was inevitable that the team would be spoken of in Biblical terms. As the victories continued, quarterback Drew Brees was dubbed “Breesus,” which led to a question for Jewish Saints fans — with such […]
April 1, 2010
April 1, 2010
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Several Birmingham organizations will join together this month to dedicate a horse chestnut tree, similar to the one that inspired Anne Frank during her years of hiding during the Holocaust, at one of Birmingham’s “sacred spots” for civil rights. The original tree in Amsterdam narrowly […]
March 23, 2010
March 23, 2010
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On Feb. 26, a Shabbat dinner for about 30 students was held at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Now, in a region where Tulane annually has a Shabbat 1000, that may not seem like that large of an achievement, but at UAB, it’s a […]
March 17, 2010
March 17, 2010
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Chanukah wasn’t the only eight-day miracle this past December. A spur of the moment thought by Montgomery’s Bette Sue Strasburger to send a couple dozen Alabama T-shirts to local soldiers fighting in Afghanistan quickly mushroomed into an effort that provided 1,400 shirts — one for […]
February 25, 2010
February 25, 2010
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We’re (obviously) redesigning the site, and it will be fully functional March 1. Thanks!
June 18, 2009
June 18, 2009
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Ramah Darom, the Conservative movement’s summer camp in north Georgia, is being commended for how it has handled a flu outbreak over the last week. About 60 campers and staffers have come down with flu symptoms. Three samples selected and tested by the Georgia Public […]