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Henry S. Jacobs Camp Director Anna Herman helps campers board the buses on the last-minute HSJ Magical Mystery Tour One of the unheralded qualities necessary in Southern Jewish communities is the ability to pivot — but Jewish interconnectedness around the region often makes it easier. […]

Graffiti found at the Pensacola Liberation Center on Aug. 3. Courtesy PLC. After a two-week antisemitic vandalism spree that hit eight sites in Pensacola, including two Jewish institutions, four teens have been arrested by Pensacola police. The arrests were announced during the afternoon of Aug. […]

Joel Bowman unsuccessfully trying to gain access to Margolin Hebrew Academy on July 31 On Aug. 2, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation filed several charges against Joel Alejandro Bowman, 33, who had tried to enter the Margolin Hebrew Academy-Feinstone Yeshiva of the South in Memphis […]

Suspect tries to gain access at Margolin Hebrew Academy in Memphis A gunman who fired shots outside a Jewish school in Memphis was critically wounded this afternoon in a confrontation with police. There were no other injuries. Students had not yet returned to the Margolin […]

Temple Beth El in Pensacola (SJL file) A week after a brick with antisemitic messages scrawled on it was hurled through a kitchen window at Chabad of Pensacola, two bricks with similar messages were discovered in a bathroom at Pensacola’s Temple Beth El today. Two […]

Antisemitism has been around for millennia, but often can still be quite puzzling, especially to those outside the Jewish community. On Aug. 25, several Jewish agencies in Birmingham will host “Together Against Antisemitism,” an educational development opportunity for the general community. Many companies will be […]

J’la 2022 (SJL file) Birmingham’s Levite Jewish Community Center will hold its second annual J’la Gala on Aug. 6  at 5 p.m., with silent and live auctions, a “fund a need” table, signature cocktails, a three-course kosher dinner prepared by Chef Maureen Holt, and live […]

Rabbi Mendel Danow of the Pensacola Chabad Jewish Center says that the person who threw a swastika-laden brick through a window at the center on Monday evening is going to regret his actions. Not because of what would happen to the “crazy dude” if he […]

A truck in downtown Chicago bears DontTrustMorningStar.com signage, a Consumers’ Research campaign. Credit: Courtesy. (JNS) — JNS got a scoop last month that Florida was investigating investment giant Morningstar. On July 17, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, currently the second-ranked Republican presidential candidate, said in a […]