Dana Evan Kaplan

New Column Just Published in the local Mobile paper and throughout Alabama on Al.com! Mourning the death of a public figure...

Blessings and Happiness in the Coming Year 5779 A Sweet Year Shofar So Good... Thanks, Samantha! A Happy New Year!

Gordon takes aim at the Gulf Coast: Millions of people from Florida to Louisiana brace for tropical storm that's expected to be a...

Princeton Lyman, a career diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and later to South Africa, where he helped engineer the...

On Sunday morning, April 29, we conducted our first Prayer Book Burial Service at the Springhill Avenue Temple Cemetery at the very back...

One photo is to the East and one is to the West. The photos were taken within 60 seconds of each other!

Barry S. is from Longview. I met Rabbi Honan recently in Alabama. Linda Leavell Jul 26, 1997 LONGVIEW, Texas Rabbi Bernard Honan peers...

As Larry M. writes, we hope Anita watches over her beautiful tree! Her daughter remembers her with much love.

A source from Minesota writes that Former Surgeon General Doctor Vivek Murthy brought mental health to the forefront last September when...

The Fourth of July As we gear up to celebrate the 4th of July, we might reflect on what it is and what it means. Of course, we know that...

According to Extra magazine, the recent spate of suicides in the headlines serves as reminders to live more fully. That is Oprah...

We all must face death at some point and it can be instructive to see how famous people deal with this reality of life. Here is a report...

The pivotal 1885 document in the history of the American Reform Movement in Judaism meeting of Reform Rabbis November 16–19, 1885 at the...

One of the key elements in Reform Judaism is that we need to make personal religious decisions on both belief and practice. To do that...

Why these people are celebrating a Jewish holiday at IHOP (JTA) By Ben Sales May 15, 2018 2:59pm (JTA) — On Saturday night,...

The news came to me Saturday night and shocked me. Here is some of the official information. Rabbi Aaron D. Panken, Ph.D., President of...

Our speaker this past Sunday afternoon was Dr. Harvey Joanning of Fairhope, Emeritus Professor of Human Development and the Family, Iowa...

Allan J. Hall, who was about 5 years old in 1939, survived the Holocaust in Poland. He came to the Springhill Avenue Temple to speak and...