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SEC Basketball Preview: Everyone chasing Alabama, Auburn
By Lee J. Green Call this one the Iron Basketbowl. Talk of Alabama and Auburn in November mostly revolves around the storied Iron Bowl football rivalry. But as SEC basketball teams tip off their games this month, the Crimson Tide and Tigers are predicted to […]
Stein’s N.C. victory means six states have Jewish governors
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein talks to reporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court after he attended oral arguments in the Moore v. Harper case Dec. 7, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images. by Izzy Salant and Menachem Wecker (JNS) — With […]
Texas’ Goldman becomes third Jewish Republican in the U.S. House
Craig Goldman, a Republican member of the Texas state House. Source: Craig Goldman for Congress website. by Izzy Salant and Menachem Wicker (JNS) — Craig Goldman, a Republican member of the Texas state House, defeated Trey Hunt to become the representative of Texas’s 12th Congressional […]
Bernie Marcus, billionaire Home Depot founder and Jewish philanthropist, 95
Home Depot CEO Bernie Marcus poses for a portrait in a Home Depot store October 15, 1998. Photo by Erik Lesser/Liaison via Getty Images. by Izzy Salant (JNS) — Bernard (“Bernie”) Marcus, the Jewish billionaire founder of Home Depot who donated extensively to Jewish causes, […]
“5 Broken Cameras” views Israel-Palestinian conflict through a cracked lens
Editor’s Note: This film is being screened on Nov. 12 by Tulane’s Middle East and North Africa Studies and the Jewish Studies department. By Steven Stotsky (CAMERA) — “5 Broken Cameras” is Palestinian film-maker Emad Burnat’s diary of his fellow villagers’ protest response to Israel’s […]
M.S. Rau hosting major exhibit of Chagall, contemporaries
Musiciens sur fond multicolore by Marc Chagall Imagine going to an exhibition of works from one of the 20th century’s most noted artists — and if you like, you can take one home. New Orleans landmark gallery M.S. Rau has a new exhibition, “Dreaming in […]
Texas court ruling signals setback for efforts to define Jew-hatred on campus
The federal courthouse in Austin is the court location of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division. Credit: Billy Hathorn via Wikipedia. by Andrew Bernard (JNS) — A federal court in Texas signaled on Oct. 29 that it intends […]
As Gaza war continues, Alabama AG ventures into local billboard battle
A billboard war between Palestinian groups and pro-Israel advocates in Birmingham received a surprise entrant on Oct. 7. In May, a billboard by the “Young Palestinians of Birmingham” appeared off Interstate 65 near downtown, displaying a Palestinian flag with the words “Stand with humanity, stand […]
MSJE set to open Southern Jewish Family Research Center
Three years after opening its doors in New Orleans, the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience will cut the ribbon on its first major expansion, on Nov. 7. The Southern Jewish Family Research Center will be located on the museum’s third floor. The 2,500 square […]
New Orleans Museum of Art events mark 20th anniversary of Besthoff Sculpture Garden
Two decades ago, Walda and Sydney Besthoff gave a gift to the people of New Orleans. This year, the New Orleans Museum of Art — itself the result of a Jewish gift, by Isaac Delgado in 1910 — is celebrating the gift that became the […]
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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