Alabama
Arthur Mayer & Demopolis, Alabama
Last week, I had the unique experience of driving to Demopolis, Alabama, (the recent subject of a Forward article about ...
Remembering the Tuscaloosa Tornado
By Education Fellow Rachel Blume “Office was destroyed. Walking to hospital with Mom. Can’t find your brother.” I received this ...
The Scottsboro Boys Revisted
Last week, the Alabama House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill setting up a procedure to pardon the Scottsboro Boys, ...
Prozdor Heads South: Teens Tour the Southern Jewish World
Over the last few months, I had the pleasure of working to put together a Southern Jewish Heritage tour for a ...
The Workmen’s Circle in Birmingham
The Workmen’s Circle—Arbeter Ring in Yiddish—is a Jewish fraternal organization devoted to progressive politics, the labor movement, and Yiddish language and culture. In its ...
Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage: “a journey to a place associated with someone or something well known or respected” (The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of ...