Larry Brook
By Larry Brook
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News The Jewish Mayor Striving to Revive B.B. King’s Hometown in the Delta
Steve Rosenthal, mayor of the rural Mississippi town of Indianola, didn’t start out in politics, but with his experiences as a longtime merchant in the town of just over 10,000, he was well positioned to run for office and try to bridge a racially divided community. Located in the Mississippi Delta, Indianola is known as…
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News How a Small Mississippi Town Helped Build Reform Judaism
Reform Judaism, America’s largest denominational stream, boasts some 900 congregations in America, including some with thousands of member families. So what possessed Rabbi David Ellenson, the renowned scholar and then-president of Reform Judaism’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, to travel to tiny Temple Beth El, in Lexington, Mississippi, — population 2,000 — for that…
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News Southern Jews in Trump’s Stronghold: A Tribe Divided
Like so many in the American Jewish community, Rabbi Elizabeth Bahar of Temple B’nai Sholom in Huntsville, Alabama, was “very surprised” and deeply disappointed by the presidential election result November 8, 2016. But not by the results in her home state. “I knew Trump was going to win Alabama,” Bahar said. In fact, Alabama is…
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News Jewish Groups Step Up To Help in Alabama After Tornadoes Sweep Through
Breathing a huge sigh of relief following some very close calls, Alabama’s Jewish community is mobilizing in response to a series of tornadoes that killed more than 250 people in the state and scores of others across the South. There were no reported deaths in the Jewish community, and the Birmingham Jewish Federation, said that…
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