Southern Jews
The $1 Million Plan to Attract Jews to Alabama
Five years later, Dothan, Ala. has 18 new Jewish residents
Bar Mitzvah Boy Comes to the Aid of a Southern Synagogue in Disrepair
Elijah Schulman’s family had roots in Selma, Ala. Now his mitzvah project will help maintain its century-old temple.
Sh*t My Dad Wrote
In his novel, Sam Halpern writes about Kentucky’s Jewish sharecroppers. A Q&A with the son who made him famous.
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How an Alabama Doctor Became a Rabbi to His Patients at a Groundbreaking AIDS Clinic
In his memoir ‘Positive,’ Michael Saag warns that our broken health care system is more dangerous than the AIDS epidemic
Leonard Cohen’s Long, Strange, Sometimes Tortured Road to Mastering His Own Sound
Liel Leibovitz, who has a new book out on the rock ’n’ roll poet, looks at how Cohen’s songs evolved from bleak to transcendent
‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’: Inside 19th-Century Yiddish Letter-Writing Manuals
Correspondence templates taught Jews both literacy and how to be modern. A new anthology shows their entertainment value.
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