2025

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 […]

by Melanie Phillips (JNS) — How many wake-up calls does a society need before it takes notice? On New Year’s Day, a terrorist rammed a truck bearing an Islamic State flag into revelers on a New Orleans street and then started shooting, leaving at least […]

A century ago, the thriving Orthodox community in New Orleans was centered around several blocks of Dryades Street. With the community long ago moving on to other parts of town, the small congregation of Anshe Sfard is the last functioning reminder of those times still […]

Law enforcement officers from multiple agencies work the scene on Bourbon Street after at least 10 people were killed when a person allegedly drove into the crowd in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day on Jan. 1, 2025 in New Orleans, La. Credit: […]

Forrest Kendall Pemberton (JNS) — In a New Year’s Eve statement, U.S. President Joe Biden proclaimed January to be National Stalking Awareness Month. Earlier in the day, the U.S. Justice Department charged Forrest Kendall Pemberton with a count of stalking for allegedly planning to attack […]