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The Florida House of Representatives in Tallahassee, March 2012. Credit: Florida House of Representatives via Wikimedia Commons. By David Isaac (JNS) — Florida, which has taken a leadership role nationwide in combating the boycott-Israel movement and actions against the Jewish state, took another step in […]

MK Ohad Tal (Religious Zionism Party) poses for a picture a day before the opening session of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, Nov. 14, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90. By Akiva Van Koninsgveld (JNS) — Ohad Tal, a member of the Religious Zionism […]

Vandalized billboard in New Orleans A billboard in New Orleans condemning antisemitism was defaced, to the applause of local anti-Israel groups. The billboard on the 1800 block of North Rampart was purchased by JewBelong, a national nonprofit known for its pink billboards promoting Jewish inclusiveness […]

By Lee J. Green The beloved self-portrait of a young Jewish girl and her unending hope for freedom during the Holocaust will be presented in operatic form as Opera Birmingham brings “The Diary of Anne Frank” to the Alabama School of Fine Arts Dorothy Jemison […]

Courtesy Honest Reporting. By Richard Friedman From where I sat, I could see everyone’s face. A small group of Birmingham journalists, media people and community activists were focused on the speaker. Gil Hoffman, a longtime writer for Israel’s Jerusalem Post and executive director of Honest […]

Consul General Sultan-Dadon and Political Affairs Director Karen Isenberg-Jones (left of Consul General) with the co-chairs and members of the newly established Mississippi-Israel Legislative Caucus. Courtesy the Israeli Consulate. On Feb. 25, Mississippi joined the growing number of states to have an Israel Legislative Caucus. […]

As the Indycar season begins this weekend in Florida, history will be made as Robert Shwartzman will become the first Israeli driver to take to the track. At a Jan. 10 event in Charlotte, PREMA Racing announced it would join the NYY INDYCAR Series, introducing […]

Historical marker in Knoxville, Tenn., for Roddie Edmonds. SJL file. By Jonathan D. Salant (JNS) — Near the end of World War II, U.S. Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds was ordered to separate the Jewish soldiers from the other Americans being held as prisoners of […]

Mugshot of Mordechai Brafman. Courtesy Miami-Dade County Corrections. (JNS) — A 27-year-old Jewish plumber is accused of firing 17 times from a semiautomatic handgun at two vacationing Israeli tourists, whom he mistook for Palestinians, in Miami Beach at about 9:30 p.m. on Feb. 15. Mordechai […]