As Confederate statues fall in battle, North Carolina Jews may feel that we are watching someone else’s war.  After all, most Jews arrived in America decades after the Civil War,…

The JHFNC is contributing its resources to an on-line Religion in North Carolina Digital Collection. This project is a collaboration of Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,…

JHFNC is happy to announce the birth of Down Home: A Virtual Museum on its web site: http://sites.duke.edu/downhome/ . While hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians saw the exhibit in…

In this article from Charlotte NPR by Tom Bullock, the digital “Down Home” exhibit is featured.  View the original article at: http://wfae.org/post/harry-golden-takes-seersuckered-south Harry Golden Takes On The Seersuckered South By…

Professor Eric Meyers, Composer Alejandro Rutty, and Conductress Lorena Guillen will be on The State of Things with Frank Stasio this afternoon at 12:40PM to discuss Down Home: The Cantata!…

For those of us with memories of heading to upstate New York for summer camps and resort vacations, you’ll be pleased to know that North Carolina was once home to…

Not widely known perhaps, but May is a time to celebrate our Jewish heritage in the United States. Our historian, Len Rogoff has written about the first Jewish person to…

In remembering the Holocaust, North Carolinians may feel a special poignancy in knowing that one victim was born in our very own Jewish community. In 1881 Therese Sternglanz was born…