C.E. Volpe dies at age 72

Charles E. Volpe, a businessman and philanthropist who served on the boards of Spoleto Festival USA and the Medical University of South Carolina's Heart and Vascular Center, died Tuesday. He was 72. Read More

Women Rabbis

KKBE to welcome its first female spiritual leader

Charleston is a place of firsts. It was the first permanent settlement in one of the New World's first Colonies. It fostered the earliest cohesive Jewish community in the South. It was home to two of the four South Carolina men who signed the Declaration of Independence. Read More

Holz to end 18-year tenure at congregation

A year ago, Rabbi Anthony Holz announced his plan to retire this summer. In January, he underwent emergency heart surgery to replace a bad valve. But he is back at the bimah, leading the congregation at Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, in his element -- until the end of July. Read More

Taking away 'half our gifts'

Judith Schindler, another female rabbi, visited the College of Charleston on Feb. 21 to talk about the role of women in the rabbinate. Schindler leads one of America's largest Reform synagogues, Temple Beth El in Charlotte, which has about 1,100 member families. Read More

KKBE and reform

Until the 19th century, there was only one form of Judaism. True, the Sephardic Jews of North African and Spanish origin practiced their religion in particular ways, and Ashkenazy Jews of Eastern European origin had their own habits. Read More

The good earth

Think global, grow local focus of Slow Food network in communities around the world

In 1989, Carlo Petrini started Slow Food in reaction to the fast-food phenomenon that was beginning to spread through Europe. Read More

Boycott of state still on, NAACP says

Upon learning last month that the Great Gathering of black Methodists would take place in Columbia, state Sen. Robert Ford declared that the NAACP boycott of South Carolina was over. Read More

Sellers honored with Travelstead award

COLUMBIA -- When Chester C. Travel- stead, dean of the University of South Carolina's College of Education from 1952-55, delivered a speech urging the university's administration and faculty to accept the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education and begin the process of integration, he was fired. Read More

Members urged to seek 'bold new vision'

The first meeting of the 28-member Downtown Task Force on Friday, hosted by the Historic Charleston Foundation, was meant to give legs to ideas first raised on Jan. 6 at a "Future of the City" forum. Read More

Centerpiece at new Sanders-Clyde School

Tile mural graces wall of arts-infused elementary

It's the biggest work he's produced: 336 hand-painted, glazed and kiln-fired tiles mounted on the exterior wall of the new Sanders-Clyde School. Read More