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Amy Chapman Fulton and Dave Fulton In November, the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in New Orleans cut the ribbon to open a major expansion. Now, that expansion has a new name, thanks to a major gift. The naming is the result of a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]