2020
September 1, 2020
The chaplains training at Maxwell Air Force Base, including Rabbi Yitzchok Lerman and Rabbi Ezra Frazer of New Jersey. Credit: Courtesy. By Elizabeth Kratz (JNS) — The weeks before, during and after Shavuot this year were unlike any other for two northern New Jersey rabbis. […]
September 1, 2020
Outside Temple Sinai in Lake Charles While damage is still being assessed throughout western and central Louisiana, it is already clear that two synagogues face major repairs, and the small communities will need help accomplishing the task. Hurricane Laura came ashore near Cameron around 2 […]
August 28, 2020
Temple Sinai, Lake Charles (SJL file) Damage assessments are still underway in Louisiana following Hurricane Laura, a Category 4 storm that came ashore near Cameron around 2 a.m. on Aug. 27, with winds of about 150 miles per hour. In hard-hit Lake Charles, about 30 […]
August 27, 2020
By Richard Friedman The bad news for the American Jewish Committee is that its business — anti-Semitism — is booming. The good news is that AJC has made a bold decision in response — to send Holly Huffnagle, a 33-year-old Christian, with family roots that course […]
August 24, 2020
By Richard Friedman The powerful words of a former U.S. Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, coupled with emotional reflections from Auburn University’s Jewish basketball coach, Bruce Pearl, highlighted the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center’s annual fundraiser August 23 as these two speakers reflected on the importance […]
August 21, 2020
With vacations interrupted this year by the Covid pandemic, the Jackson-based Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life has instituted a weekly Virtual Vacation, featuring interactive digital events with museums, historic sites, scholars, chefs and more from across the region. The Tuesday sessions will be on […]
August 18, 2020
Participants in a GILEE tour talk with Arab recruits to the Israeli police. By Richard Friedman An enlightening discussion focusing on learning exchanges between Israeli law enforcement personnel and U.S. police departments, and the way that Israel’s adversaries exploit these exchanges to malign the […]
August 14, 2020
Ahmad Daraldik While many groups are praising Florida State University for adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism, the move comes after a contentious summer that saw the student senate refuse to act against a president who had a history of antisemitic social […]
August 13, 2020
By Richard Friedman In the United States Senate race in Alabama between Doug Jones and Tommy Tuberville, which candidate would be better for Israel and the U.S.-Israel relationship? It comes as no surprise that the spokesmen for two national pro-Israel political organizations, the Republican […]