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Two bills to fight Jew-hatred introduced in Tennessee Legislature
Tennessee State Capitol. Credit: Andre Porter via Wikimedia Commons. By Izzy Salant (JNS) — The State of Tennessee adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of Jew-hatred in May 2022. On Jan. 2, Mark Pody, a Republican member of the state’s Senate, introduced a […]
One Israeli on respirator, other has serious injuries after New Orleans attack
Memorial on Bourbon Street for the victims of the Jan. 1 terrorist attack in New Orleans, La., on January 4. Credit: Emily Kask/AFP via Getty Images. (JNS) — Elad Shoshan, the Israeli consul to the southwest United States, told JNS over the weekend that he […]
Opinion: Connect the dots between the New Orleans attack and support for anti-Israel terror
A man reacts to a memorial on Bourbon Street in New Orleans for the people killed in a car-ramming attack on New Year’s after it reopened to the public on Jan. 2, 2025. Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images. By Jonathan Tobin (JNS) — […]
Josh Stein sworn in as governor of North Carolina
Josh Stein. Credit: waketechcc/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons. (JNS) — Josh Stein was sworn in as the 76th governor of North Carolina—and the first Jewish one—on Jan. 1. The 58-year-old is the third attorney general to move up to the state’s top job. “As I take […]
Weaponizing university conduct officers against Zionist students: A Tulane student’s odyssey
A view of Tulane University. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. By Ronn Torossian (JNS) — A few months ago, I got to know a man who is now a friend and in many ways embodies Jewish pride post-Oct. 7, 2023, by standing up, saying something and doing […]
A Jimmy Carter surprise: He didn’t hate just Israel, he hated Jews too
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter puts on a yarmulke before meeting with the religious leader of the Jewish Sephardic community, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, in Jerusalem on Aug. 25, 2009. Credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90. By Charles Jacobs and Ben Poser (JNS) — Remembrances of former President Jimmy […]
Kentucky Jewish Council criticizes Rep. Massie’s anti-Israel “obsession”
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) speaking with attendees at the 2019 Young Americans for Liberty Convention in Philadelphia. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons. (JNS) — The Kentucky Jewish Council criticized a post on X by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) the organization claims is just the […]
Mosque of Nola attacker urges members to deflect inquiries to CAIR
Police cordon off the area around the site of the car-ramming attack in New Orleans, La., Jan. 1, 2025. Photo by Matthew Hinton/AFP via Getty Images. Masjid Bilal, the local Houston mosque near the home of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, has been receiving a good deal of […]
Opinion: New Orleans attack shows U.S. has an Islamist problem, but is in denial
by Melanie Phillips (JNS) — How many wake-up calls does a society need before it takes notice? On New Year’s Day, a terrorist rammed a truck bearing an Islamic State flag into revelers on a New Orleans street and then started shooting, leaving at least […]New Orleans stunned by New Years Day terror attack that killed 15
Law enforcement officers from multiple agencies work the scene on Bourbon Street after at least 10 people were killed when a person allegedly drove into the crowd in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day on Jan. 1, 2025 in New Orleans, La. Credit: […]
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June 19, 2024
Ten Commandments monument outside Gates of Prayer in Metairie. SJL file. Editor’s Note: A version of this editorial originally appeared in our publication in September 2001, during the Judge Roy Moore monument dispute at the Alabama Supreme Court building. It was updated slightly to refer […]
June 23, 2023
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Southern Jewish Life magazine, which has covered the Jewish communities of the Deep South for over three decades, announced that it will be expanding with a new online edition covering the rest of the South. Starting with August 2023, Southern Jewish Life […]
November 11, 2020
Self-described “local” paper has almost no local reporting, wild circulation numbers — but plenty of ads from politicians and others thinking they are reaching the local Jewish community Editor’s Note: This piece won the national Boris Smolar Award for Excellence in Enterprise or Investigative Reporting, […]
Editorial: Jewish community needs to tell antisemitic Presbyterian Church (USA) goodbye