Temple of Israel: A Ballast Stone of North Carolina Judaism
Recent excavations at Wilmington’s Temple of Israel will dispel misconceptions that North Carolina Jewish roots…
Recent excavations at Wilmington’s Temple of Israel will dispel misconceptions that North Carolina Jewish roots…
Leon Levine, who passed away on April 5, is being remembered as an innovative entrepreneur…
Passover has been celebrated in North Carolina for more than 200 years, at least. Across…
Perhaps no holiday is enjoyed as much as Purim with its revelries and irreverent humor.…
Eric Meyers, founding director of Duke University’s Jewish Studies and past president of Jewish Heritage…
The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources’ Highway Historical Marker Program has authorized…
Photo Credit: Office of the Governor Governor Roy Cooper presides at the lighting of a…
Once a small-town Jewish community dies, can it come back to life? The story of…
Agudas Israel Congregation of Hendersonville observed its centennial with a series of celebratory events. …
Across North Carolina in old mill and market towns stand abandoned synagogues—now churches or residences—which…
One mitzvah inspires another is a Jewish teaching. That lesson came home on the High…
In Edible North Carolina: A Journey across a State of Flavor Southern food guru Marcie…
Eli Evans, author of the pathbreaking book The Provincials: A Personal History of the Jews…
“How’d your family wind up here in small-town North Carolina?” I’d ask an old timer.…
Burning Coal Theatre will present B’rukhim Haba’im: Stories of Welcome, an exhibit of filmed autobiographical…
Rabbi Steven G. Sager, Rabbi Emeritus of Beth El Synagogue in Durham and founding director…
“From Manteo to Murphy” is a phrase that North Carolinians employ when they speak of…
For a state that historically has had a small Jewish community, at least as a…
By Rachel Ariel, Guest Contributor and Librarian for Jewish Studies, Duke University Duke University Libraries…
By Larry Pearlman, Guest Contributor In my first blog, I described how synagogues in small…
Remarks delivered at the Down Home Banner Exhibition North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh, April…
By Larry Pearlman, Guest Contributor In many small-towns, synagogues are disappearing. Their communities are shrinking…
Purim has become a family celebration, often a children’s party, a fun time at temple…
When Jewish Heritage North Carolina (JHNC) created our multimedia project Down Home: Jewish Life in…
After the 1619 Project and Black Lives Matter, this year’s Black History Month is especially…
The 115 English settlers who disappeared from Roanoke Island circa 1587 gave rise to the…
Today print journalism is an endangered species, at best a dated indulgence. Perhaps you’ve perused…
By Guest Contributor, Prof. Eric M. Meyers When the prominent architect Percival Goodman signed on…
News that anti-Semitic flyers were distributed in Greensboro neighborhoods on Sunday, December 19 has riled…
This New Year’s Eve Jews, like other North Carolinians, may perhaps avail themselves of a…
This year marks the centennial since the founding of the North Carolina Association of Jewish…
The Wallace Brothers Herbarium, a fascinating and important Jewish enterprise in North Carolina’s economic history,…
Hanukkah sameach! Happy Hanukkah! During this season as we rededicate ourselves to our Jewish community…
In December, 1944, in the midst of World War II, The American Jewish Times, a…
The beautiful Temple of Israel has been a landmark in Wilmington for almost 146 years. Built…
If North Carolinians share a religion, it’s college basketball. Jews have been part of the…
Driving North Carolina highways and byways, you have likely noticed silver and black metal signposts…
Did you know that Goldsboro’s Temple Oheb Shalom is the second oldest synagogue building in…
A North Carolina Hero The advent of football season and the approach of Armistice Day…
This past fall, the Berman Jewish DataBank, sponsored by The Jewish Federations of North America,…
The Southern Jewish Historical Society will hold its 45th annual conference virtually on October…
By Guest Contributor, Wendy Gordon Pake On Monday, September 6, North Carolina’s second oldest synagogue,1…
How could Jews in North Carolina observe the High Holidays before there were congregations here?…
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics has come to a close, but for Jewish North Carolinians this…
The opening of school, after a year of lockdown and virtual classes, might seem like…
Professor Rosemary Horowitz, co-director of Appalachian State University’s Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies,…
In the 2020 election North Carolina Jews took pride in noting that for the first…
As we observe Yom HaShoah, we may not be aware that North Carolina was a…
‘Tis the season when our thoughts turn to summer with the added promise of a…
As Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day) arrives on April 15, North Carolinians can celebrate its…
Observing Passover in North Carolina has not always been as convenient as today’s easy trip…
By JHNC Historian Leonard Rogoff On election day Nov. 3, Jewish candidates won two of…
The Berman Jewish Data Bank recently released their 2019 US Jewish population report that confirms…
As Confederate statues fall in battle, North Carolina Jews may feel that we are watching…
JHNC has contracted with the NC Council on the Holocaust to add a component to…
The JHFNC is contributing its resources to an on-line Religion in North Carolina Digital Collection.…
JHFNC is happy to announce the birth of Down Home: A Virtual Museum on its…
And now, from the archives, comes a previously unknown essay by Horton, which sheds oblique…
In this article from Charlotte NPR by Tom Bullock, the digital “Down Home” exhibit is…
Professor Eric Meyers, Composer Alejandro Rutty, and Conductress Lorena Guillen will be on The State…
Triangle Jewish Chorale Presents a Memorable Panorama of Jewish Life in North Carolina By Ken…
For those of us with memories of heading to upstate New York for summer camps…
Not widely known perhaps, but May is a time to celebrate our Jewish heritage in…
In remembering the Holocaust, North Carolinians may feel a special poignancy in knowing that one…
NPR, ‘A State of Things’ recently interviewed Rabbi Steve Sager of Sicha. Click here for…
Click here to read the review of Down Home at the Levine Museum of the…
Smelling the fresh challah at the JCC in Durham got me thinking today. Where else…
Check out the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia-over 25,000 sq. ft. of…
My father would make gefilte fish with his brothers. They also made kosher pickles in…
In this article, that originally appeared at http://thetorah.com/akdamut-milin/, Duke Professor Laura Lieber gives a fascinating…