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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, […]
September 4, 2024

Acrobatic stars to New Orleans recluses: Film preserves the adventures of sisters Nita and Zita

The world barely noticed when sisters Flora and Piroska Gellert finished their time on it, six years apart, with only the officiating rabbi and a neighbor attending their funerals in the pauper’s section of Hebrew Rest Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans. But when that […]
September 3, 2024

Murder of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin reverberates at his old stomping grounds in North Georgia

Hersh Goldberg-Polin at the Passover Retreat at Ramah Darom. Photo courtesy Ramah Darom. The news that the body of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin had been recovered from a Gaza tunnel on Aug. 31 reverberated in the north Georgia mountains at Ramah Darom, the Conservative movement’s summer […]
September 1, 2024

Israel Air Force veteran to speak in Birmingham about JNF rebuilding efforts

The Jewish National Fund USA will hold “Build Together: Stand With Israel” at Birmingham’s Temple Beth-El on Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. The program will focus on how the agency is supporting Israel’s resilience and rebuilding efforts in the Negev and the Galilee, especially after […]
August 28, 2024

At Birmingham Israel Bonds event, Kenneth Stein explains background to Gaza conflict

Kenneth Stein speaks at the Pine Tree. As Israel’s war against Hamas continues, Israel Bonds is continuing to address needs in Israel resulting from the war. On June 18, the Southeast regional office held an event at the Pine Tree Country Club in Birmingham, where […]