2021

Ryan Pannone holds the Israel State Cup in 2019 If you are at a Birmingham Squadron game in the coming months and happen to hear Coach Ryan Pannone finish up a huddle with “Yalla” — you haven’t been transported to Israel, but a little of […]

By Eliana Rudee (JNS) — Adi Topolosky, a New Orleans native who is now a seventh-grader at Berman Hebrew Academy in Rockville, Md., made international news last year after speaking up for girls in sports after a negative experience in a sports store while trying […]

By Lee J. Green Red Mountain Theatre’s fourth-annual Human Rights New Works Festival, to be held Sept. 24 to 26, features a couple of new plays about Holocaust survivors, as well as one focusing on New York Jews moving to a small town outside of […]

Putting camp on your calendar isn’t just for parents who are making plans to send their kids off next summer. Micah Hart, host of the six degrees of separation game show Who Knows One, is developing a “365 Things That Remind You Of Summer Camp” […]

By Larry Brook It has been commonly accepted that education is the key to fighting antisemitism, that the more education one has, the less likely one is to adhere to antisemitic beliefs. A recent study from University of Arkansas researchers turns that notion on its […]

Cooking out at the Chabad Center in Metairie As the initial recovery from Hurricane Ida continues in Louisiana, plans are being formulated for a High Holy Days in the diaspora, with so many community members still scattered around the country, and most of the New […]

The 5782 United Synagogue calendar features Barry Ivker and the 2020 Temple Beth-El Rosh Hashanah Prayer Walk at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens on its cover. The Covid resurgence with the highly-contagious Delta variant has thrown High Holiday plans into disarray once again. Some congregations have […]

Outside Temple Sinai in New Orleans Recovery from Hurricane Ida will be a long-term process for the Southeast Louisiana Jewish communities, but even though it will be nothing resembling the long-term displacement of Katrina, what the needs will be are not yet known. At an […]

Broward County Public Schools Department at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Credit: YES Market Media/Shutterstock. By Sean Savage (JNS) — The Florida State Board of Education adopted new civics and Holocaust-education standards for Florida’s public schools in July, which had been pushed by the state’s governor, Ron […]