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October 7, 2024

Fielkow, Grant announce new “Elevated Conversations” radio show

Arnie Fielkow at event in 2020. SJL file. Arnie Fielkow, former CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans and past president of the New Orleans City Council, and Cary Grant, former assistant chief administrative officer for the city of New Orleans, announced the […]
October 2, 2024

Texas to mark Oct. 7 anniversary with moment of silence, lowered flags

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference at the Texas State Capitol on June 8, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images. (JNS) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott plans to hold a state-wide moment of silence at 7 a.m. on Oct. […]
September 26, 2024

Texas ‘Goyim Defense League’ member charged with threatening to lynch Nashville district attorney

An FBI agent listens to the operation pre-briefing for Operation Dead Hand in Los Angeles on Jan. 30, 2024. Credit: Federal Bureau of Investigation. (JNS) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee charged David Aaron Bloyed, of Frost, Texas, on Sept. […]
September 22, 2024

“Dear Jack, Dear Louise,” Jewish playwright’s most personal work, opens the 2024-25 ASF season

By Lee J. Green A love letter to the parents of Jewish playwright Ken Ludwig gives a heartwarming opening to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s 2024-25 season. “Dear Jack, Dear Louise” – winner of the Helen Hayes Best New Play Award in 2020 – will come […]
September 20, 2024

N.C. gubernatorial candidate denies he authored explicit and Hitler-related social media posts

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson speaks at the Faith and Freedom Road to Majority conference at the Washington Hilton on June 21, 2024. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images. by Andrew Bernard (JNS) — Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s Republican candidate for governor, posted extensive antisemitic […]
September 12, 2024

Antisemitic graffiti found outside YMCA in Charlotte after JCC softball games

Charlotte, N.C. Credit: Precisionviews via Wikimedia Commons. Vandals spray-painted racist rhetoric and swastikas on Sept. 9 at the Morrison Family YMCA of Greater Charlotte in Charlotte, N.C. The phrase “save the white race” was scrawled outside, and a swastika was graffitied onto a YMCA daycare […]
September 9, 2024

What retirement? Georgia Jewish surgeon running against anti-Israel state representative

Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta. Credit: DXR via Wikimedia Commons. by Mike Wagenheim (JNS) — Dr. Barry Zisholtz, who retired last year after 46 years as a urological surgeon and who is known more commonly as “Dr. Z.,” received a knock on his door in […]
September 9, 2024

Coach Pearl continues to speak out nationally for Israel

Bruce Pearl, head coach of the Auburn Tigers, reacts during the first half against the Yale Bulldogs in the first round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena on March 22, 2024 in Spokane, Wash. Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images. by […]
September 5, 2024

Louisiana Rep. Johnson tells RJC Israel will always have strong ally with him as speaker

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) addresses attendees at the RJC Annual Leadership Summit in Las Vegas via satellite from Italy, Sept. 5, 2024. Photo by Izzy Salant. by Izzy Salant (JNS) — When Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) assumed his post as House Speaker, […]