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Dedicating a street in Israel in honor of Sylvia Raphael: Journalist David Kaplan (left) and Rosh Ha’ayin Mayor Shalom Ben Moshe (center), on Jan. 22, 2024. Credit: Courtesy of David Kaplan. by Rolene Marks (JNS) — On Jan. 22, old friends, representatives of Israel’s South […]

Surveillance footage from the Dollar General store where Ryan Christopher Palmeter shot and killed three people in Jacksonville, Fla. on Aug. 26, 2023. Credit: Wikipedia. From JNS and SJL reports Jewish leaders issued statements last summer after Ryan Christopher Palmeter killed three people, all of […]

The actor John Cusack at a press conference at a film festival in Berlin, Germany, on Feb. 16, 2016. Credit: Denis Makarenko/Shutterstock. John Cusack, who became a famous actor with several films in the 1980s, will be in Birmingham on March 10 for “An Evening […]

Photo via John F. Kennedy/Twitter From SJL and JNS reports The Georgia state Senate voted 44-6 on Jan. 25 to pass a bill that uses the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism to define Jew-hatred in state law. The legislation, which now heads […]

The funeral of Palestinian-American Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, who was killed during a clash in Samaria, in Al-Mazra’a Ash-Sharqiya near Ramallah, Jan. 20, 2024. Credit: Flash90. From SJL and JNS reports A Palestinian teen from the New Orleans area who was killed in the territories on […]

While Nick Saban and his wife Terry been active philanthropically, especially through their Nick’s Kids and with Catholic causes in Tuscaloosa, including the University of Alabama student Catholic Center being named for them, what does the retirement of arguably the greatest coach in college football […]

By Cantor Michael J. Zoosman The state of Alabama inadvertently has chosen a Jewish holiday for its first-ever experimental gassing to death. On Jan. 25 of this year, while many in the Jewish world mark Tu B’Shevat in the Hebrew calendar, Alabama will gas a […]

By Lee J. Green Nicole Lamb can’t wait to take the magic carpet back to the Magic City. The Birmingham native returns home with the national Broadway tour of Disney’s “Aladdin,” coming to the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex, Jan. 24 to 28. “I saw so many […]

Update: After weather forced postponement of the original date, the event was moved to April 11. Tickets are available here. Just after King Weekend, the Birmingham Jewish community will host a performance on Jan. 16 of a new one-man show about the close relationship between […]