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Katrina Armstrong, M.D. Photo by Jörg Meyer/Columbia University. As Columbia University continues to be a battleground for anti-Israel activism over the war against Hamas in Gaza, the university named an interim president with Alabama ties. Following the resignation of Minouche Shafik, who served as president […]

James Carville. Credit: JD Lasica/Socialmedia.biz via Wikimedia Commons. Long-time Democratic political strategist James Carville thinks he has figured out why Republicans are so supportive of Israel — simple white racism. Carville, the “Ragin’ Cajun” who became prominent as chief strategist for Bill Clinton during the […]

Damage to solar panels in Wedgefield facility. Photo courtesy U.S. Department of Justice. (JNS) — Law enforcement arrested a Jordanian national on July 11 who was living in Orlando, Fla., and the 43-year-old has been charged with four counts of bomb threats and a count […]

Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta. Credit: Warren LeMay/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons. From JNS and SJL reports Three Jewish organizations have called for federal intervention to counter what they characterize as pervasive, unchecked antisemitism in Georgia’s Fulton County School District. The Louis D. Brandeis Center for […]

(JNS) — Chattanooga has many Jewish-owned but no kosher restaurants, and the only glatt-kosher kitchen of its kind in the area is at the Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga. On Aug. 18, the city will have its first Jewish food festival., from noon to 2 […]

The fourth GatesFest music festival is “All Shuk Up” as it changes its format to a late afternoon and evening experience at Metairie’s Gates of Prayer. GatesFest After Dark will be on Oct. 20 from 4 to 9 p.m., with Flow Tribe as the headliner. […]

From “Sabbath Queen” By Lee J. Green The 26th annual Sidewalk Film Festival, held in downtown Birmingham from Aug. 19 to 25, will spotlight films about Temple Beth-El’s Civil Rights Experience, Alabama Holocaust survivors, a rabbi who is a self-proclaimed “Drag Queen Rebel” and glimpse […]

Rosh Ha’Ayin native Tom Reuveny of Team Israel celebrates winning the gold medal in the Men’s Windsurf iQFoil class final on day eight of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Marseille Marina on August 3, 2024 in Marseille, France. Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images. (JNS) […]

Over the summer, the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans posted these billboards around the area. On July 31, a coalition of leaders from a wide range of organizations, including political, faith-based and educational institutions in the New Orleans area, issued a New Orleans Statement […]