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An east Tennessee man affiliated with the neo-Nazi Goyim Defense League was arrested after trying to gain entry to the Gordon Jewish Community Center in Nashville while wearing a disguise intended to make him look like an Orthodox Jew. Travis Keith Garland, 31, was arrested […]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, Nov. 27, 2024. Credit: Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90. By Mike Wagenheim (JNS) — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Israeli media on Jan. 16 at the Israeli embassy in Washington that he trusts the judgement of […]

Eitan Weiss, from X. Israel’s cabinet approved Eitan Weiss as the next Consul General to the Southeastern United States, based in Atlanta. He will succeed Consul General Anat Sultan-Dadon, who will have served six years in that position by this summer. The appointment was part […]

National Guardsmen and a police officer at a blocked off street, a block from Bourbon Street in New Orleans after an ISIS supporter killed 14 people and wounded at least 35 others early on Jan. 1, 2025. Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images. From […]

Amy Chapman Fulton and Dave Fulton In November, the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in New Orleans cut the ribbon to open a major expansion. Now, that expansion has a new name, thanks to a major gift. The naming is the result of a […]

Tennessee State Capitol. Credit: Andre Porter via Wikimedia Commons. By Izzy Salant (JNS) — The State of Tennessee adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of Jew-hatred in May 2022. On Jan. 2, Mark Pody, a Republican member of the state’s Senate, introduced a […]

Memorial on Bourbon Street for the victims of the Jan. 1 terrorist attack in New Orleans, La., on January 4. Credit: Emily Kask/AFP via Getty Images. (JNS) — Elad Shoshan, the Israeli consul to the southwest United States, told JNS over the weekend that he […]

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) speaking with attendees at a fundraiser for U.S. congressional candidate Abraham Hamadeh in Paradise Valley, Ariz., on Aug. 22, 2024. Credit: Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons. By Andrew Bernard (JNS) — The U.S. House of Representatives re-elected Rep. Mike Johnson […]

A man reacts to a memorial on Bourbon Street in New Orleans for the people killed in a car-ramming attack on New Year’s after it reopened to the public on Jan. 2, 2025. Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images. By Jonathan Tobin (JNS) — […]