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July 3, 2024

Alabama teacher receives national award for excellence in Holocaust education

Logan Greene with Stanlee Stahl An eighth-grade teacher in Hoover, just south of Birmingham, received a prominent national award for excellence in teaching about the Holocaust. Berry Middle School’s Logan Greene received the Robert I. Goldman Award for Excellence in Holocaust Education at an advanced […]
June 24, 2024

Louisiana-made part of Gaza pier washes up on Tel Aviv beach

Construction of the floating pier in the Mediterranean. Credit: U.S. Central Command. (JNS) — Parts of the Biden administration’s $230 million floating Gaza “humanitarian pier” washed up at Tel Aviv’s Frishman Beach on June 22. Israel’s Channel 12 News shared a picture of an engraved panel […]
June 20, 2024

Florida Jewish legislator ponders the future of Jews in the U.S.

Florida State Representative Randy Fine at the site of the Supernova music festival massacre near Kibbutz Re’im, June 10, 2024. Credit: Courtesy. By Etgar Lefkovits (JNS) — The lone Republican Jewish lawmaker in the Florida State legislature said on June 18 that he could never […]
June 20, 2024

Mississippi man pleads guilty to antisemitic harassment in Pennsylvania

Donavon Parish, in a 2022 Forrest County mugshot. Donavon Parish, 29, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on June 18 to cyberstalking harassment, admitting that he was motivated by Jew-hatred, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He faced one […]
June 19, 2024

Ten problems with the Ten Commandments: Louisiana version

Ten Commandments monument outside Gates of Prayer in Metairie. SJL file. Editor’s Note: A version of this editorial originally appeared in our publication in September 2001, during the Judge Roy Moore monument dispute at the Alabama Supreme Court building. It was updated slightly to refer […]
June 19, 2024

Alabama baseball legend Willie Mays’ Jewish “best friends”

Willie Mays (left) with Jacob Shemano and the Dodgers’ Leo Durocher. Courtesy of Gary Shemano By Louis Keene (The Forward) — Willie Mays was in the prime of his career in 1963, but his finances were a mess. The Giants’ star outfielder had plunged into […]
June 19, 2024

Antisemitic threats in Florida, including at 50 synagogues

Old City Hall in Boca Raton, Fla. Credit: Ebyabe via Wikimedia Commons. (JNS) — More than 50 synagogues in Florida were targeted with bomb threats on June 18, WPLG reported. The Coral Gables Police Department determined that the emailed threats were not credible, according to […]
June 14, 2024

NAACP endangers Jews of color and all people by demanding anti-Israel arms ban

The bomb-damaged home of Arthur Shores, NAACP attorney, in Birmingham, Ala., on Sept. 5, 1963. Credit: Marion S. Trikosko/U.S. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons. By Morton Klein (JNS) — Do black Jewish lives matter? How about the lives of non-Jewish black African students and black Jewish Ethiopian-Israelis […]
June 14, 2024

Louisiana legislature passes resolutions supporting Israel, state’s Jewish community

Anti-Israel encampment at Tulane University in early May By Lara Crigger In a strong show of solidarity with the Jewish community and with Israel, the Louisiana state legislature stood firm against antisemitism and extremist terrorist groups in its most recent session. During the 2024 session, […]