JTA — The arson in December at Beth Israel Congregation didn’t just damage the only synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi. It also threw into disarray the operations of a Jewish nonprofit that aims to serve the entire American South. The Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life is housed at the opposite end of the Beth Israel building from the library where the fire started. Most of its activities take place off-site, in the small Jewish communities scattered across the region, and much of its archives had been digitized before the fire. Still, the arson attack struck an institution that, since its...
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