
RSVP for Amy Saag on February 19 (lunch included)
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.
Watch Dr. Carlie Stein Somerville’s January appearance:
All programs are noon-1:30 p.m. with complimentary lunch
- 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, longtime Selma native and a caretaker of 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
- March 19: TBD
- April 23: TBD
- May 21: Isa Dorsky
Read ‘Southern Jewish Voices expands scope, adds lunch‘
Past interviews
Catch up on season two (2023-24)
- 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.
Watch season one (2022-23)

- Esther Schuster
- David Sher
- Jesse Unkenholz
- Tammi Caldwell-Horn and Jonathan Horn
- Ronald Levitt
- Madeline Oliff
- Barbara Aland
