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GUIDE TO JEWISH ARKANSAS, MISSISSIPPI, TENNESSEE

Although small in numbers compared to many major U.S. cities, the Jewish communities of the Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee region are strong, thriving and even growing.

According to the latest studies the number of Jewish people in the Greater Memphis area has increased during the last decade. And while some of our Jewishness has taken a long time to weave its way into everyday Southern life, even in the Deep South, you don’t have to look too hard to at least find a bagel in your town – even in Hattiesburg, Miss.

While polling the communities of our tri-state area, I could only find a smidgeon of kosher, kosher-style or restaurants serving Jewish foods And while Jewish and Israeli film, food, book and Israel festivals have been going strong for years – from the 31st San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (July 21-Aug. 8, 2011), to the largest annual Book Fair in St. Louis each November, to the 22nd annual Shalom Ya’ll Jewish Food Festival in Savannah on Oct. 31, 2010 – there are some southern cities just getting their feet wet planning these intensive, volunteer-labor endeavors. But mark your calendars for these two up and coming city festivals that will each be celebrating their 4th annual fairs – Little Rock’s Jewish Food and Cultural Festival, May 15, 2011 and Memphis Friends of Israel’s Israel Festival at Shelby Farms on May 22, 2011.

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