From Goodman to Weinstein: The Story of Beth El’s Historic Renovation
By Guest Contributor, Prof. Eric M. Meyers When the prominent architect Percival Goodman signed on…
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Anti-Semitic Flyers Strike Greensboro
News that anti-Semitic flyers were distributed in Greensboro neighborhoods on Sunday, December 19 has riled…
Cheers to You: NC Jewish Makers & Distributors of Fine Wines and Liquors
This New Year’s Eve Jews, like other North Carolinians, may perhaps avail themselves of a…
Jewish Women Organize!
This year marks the centennial since the founding of the North Carolina Association of Jewish…
Jewish Brothers Spur NC Economy, Garner International Attention
The Wallace Brothers Herbarium, a fascinating and important Jewish enterprise in North Carolina’s economic history,…
Happy Hanukkah from JHNC
Hanukkah sameach! Happy Hanukkah! During this season as we rededicate ourselves to our Jewish community…
The Renewed Meaning of Chanukah
In December, 1944, in the midst of World War II, The American Jewish Times, a…
NC’s oldest synagogue needs our help
The beautiful Temple of Israel has been a landmark in Wilmington for almost 146 years. Built…
Jews Are One People, Except When Playing Basketball
If North Carolinians share a religion, it’s college basketball. Jews have been part of the…
Jews leave their mark(ers) on North Carolina
Driving North Carolina highways and byways, you have likely noticed silver and black metal signposts…
Down Home in Goldsboro: Jewish Life Across the Centuries
Did you know that Goldsboro’s Temple Oheb Shalom is the second oldest synagogue building in…
Heroics on the sports field… Bravery on the battlefield
A North Carolina Hero The advent of football season and the approach of Armistice Day…
How Many Jews Live in North Carolina (Revisited)?
This past fall, the Berman Jewish DataBank, sponsored by The Jewish Federations of North America,…
Upcoming Southern Jewish Historical Society Conference
The Southern Jewish Historical Society will hold its 45th annual conference virtually on October…
138-year-old Congregation Emanuel Restored to Original Beauty
By Guest Contributor, Wendy Gordon Pake On Monday, September 6, North Carolina’s second oldest synagogue,1…
A History of High Holidays in North Carolina
How could Jews in North Carolina observe the High Holidays before there were congregations here?…
Jewish Olympians From North Carolina
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics has come to a close, but for Jewish North Carolinians this…
School Days: A New Normal (Then & Now)
The opening of school, after a year of lockdown and virtual classes, might seem like…
Boone, NC Loses a Great Academic Scholar and Jewish Community Leader
Professor Rosemary Horowitz, co-director of Appalachian State University’s Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies,…
Alon Tal: North Carolina Comes to the Knesset
In the 2020 election North Carolina Jews took pride in noting that for the first…
North Carolina and the Man Who Coined the Word Genocide
As we observe Yom HaShoah, we may not be aware that North Carolina was a…
Jewish Summer Camping in North Carolina
‘Tis the season when our thoughts turn to summer with the added promise of a…
North Carolina’s Century of Zionist Activism
As Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day) arrives on April 15, North Carolinians can celebrate its…
Passover in North Carolina
Observing Passover in North Carolina has not always been as convenient as today’s easy trip…
Jewish Firsts in North Carolina Politics
By JHNC Historian Leonard Rogoff On election day Nov. 3, Jewish candidates won two of…
North Carolina’s Jewish Population is Booming!
The Berman Jewish Data Bank recently released their 2019 US Jewish population report that confirms…
Confederate memorials, not a Jewish problem?
As Confederate statues fall in battle, North Carolina Jews may feel that we are watching…
NC Holocaust Education
JHNC has contracted with the NC Council on the Holocaust to add a component to…
Jewish Congregational Histories Online!
The JHFNC is contributing its resources to an on-line Religion in North Carolina Digital Collection.…
Down Home: Digital Exhibit
JHFNC is happy to announce the birth of Down Home: A Virtual Museum on its…
A Slave Poet, a Jewish Professor at UNC-CH
And now, from the archives, comes a previously unknown essay by Horton, which sheds oblique…
Harry Golden Takes On The Seersuckered South
In this article from Charlotte NPR by Tom Bullock, the digital “Down Home” exhibit is…
Down Home: Cantata: Listen LIVE on The State of Things
Professor Eric Meyers, Composer Alejandro Rutty, and Conductress Lorena Guillen will be on The State…
Down Home: The Cantata is “Memorable, they say”
Triangle Jewish Chorale Presents a Memorable Panorama of Jewish Life in North Carolina By Ken…
Summering in the North Carolina Mountains of Yesteryear
For those of us with memories of heading to upstate New York for summer camps…
May is Jewish American Heritage Month
Not widely known perhaps, but May is a time to celebrate our Jewish heritage in…
A NC Holocaust Victim
In remembering the Holocaust, North Carolinians may feel a special poignancy in knowing that one…
NPR Interview on Jewish texts
NPR, ‘A State of Things’ recently interviewed Rabbi Steve Sager of Sicha. Click here for…
Read Charlotte Observer Article on Down Home
Click here to read the review of Down Home at the Levine Museum of the…
Sources for local challah
Smelling the fresh challah at the JCC in Durham got me thinking today. Where else…
Looking for a long weekend trip destination?
Check out the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia-over 25,000 sq. ft. of…
Food memories from our museum exhibit recipe cards
My father would make gefilte fish with his brothers. They also made kosher pickles in…
The Piyyut (Poem) Akdamut Milin: The Enigma and Perseverance of Tradition
In this article, that originally appeared at http://thetorah.com/akdamut-milin/, Duke Professor Laura Lieber gives a fascinating…