Now in its fourth season!
Southern Jewish Voices showcases stories about Jewish life in Birmingham and around the South. The program is presented through a series of interviews conducted in front of a live audience and includes a complimentary lunch. Videos of all sessions are archived online.
Here’s our fall line-up for 2025
All programs run noon-1:30 p.m.; click the links to RSVP for lunch
- September 17: Criminal defense attorney and author Richard Jaffe
- November 19: Florina Newcomb, CEO of the Birmingham Jewish Federation
- December 17: Pizitz family members Richard Sr., Richard Jr., and Andrew
All programs are noon-1:30 p.m. with complimentary lunch
Catch up on past seasons
- September 18: Michele Forman, documentary filmmaker and director of the Media Studies Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
- November 20: Dr. Robert Levin, retired pediatrician and “Voice of the Million Dollar Band”
- December 18: Ronnie Leet, Selma native and a caretaker of the city’s historic Temple Mishkan
- January 22: Carlie Stein Somerville, faculty member at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine and a third-generation Birminghamian
- February 19: Amy Saag, Birmingham native, teacher, and volunteer extraordinaire
- March 19: Asaf Stein, Birmingham resident and IDF “Lone Soldier” veteran
- April 23: Philanthropist Lisa Engel
- May 21: LJCC President Isa Dorsky
- Rabbi Adam Wright, spiritual leader at Temple Emanu-El (May 22)
- Miriam Friedman, director of the Jo Ann Hess Morrison Chai Tots Preschool (April 17)
- Knesseth Israel leaders Beth Scherer-Smokey and Martin Stein (March 20)
- Interfaith discussion with Maurine Halpern, who is Catholic, and her husband Jacob, who is Jewish (February 28)
- Hal Abroms, philanthropist (January 24)
- Phillip Ensler, civil rights attorney and state representative for District 74 (which includes Montgomery) — and the only Jewish member of the Alabama legislature (November 29)
- Ronne Hess, philanthropist and volunteer (October 25)
Special thanks to funding from the Alabama Humanities Alliance and the Ted and Marjorie Levite LJCC Fund at the Birmingham Jewish Foundation for their support of this program.
