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January 28, 2024

“Antisemite of the Week” John Cusack to appear at Birmingham’s Alys Stephens Center

The actor John Cusack at a press conference at a film festival in Berlin, Germany, on Feb. 16, 2016. Credit: Denis Makarenko/Shutterstock. John Cusack, who became a famous actor with several films in the 1980s, will be in Birmingham on March 10 for “An Evening […]
January 26, 2024

After roadblocks last year, Georgia Legislature passes bill defining antisemitism

Photo via John F. Kennedy/Twitter From SJL and JNS reports The Georgia state Senate voted 44-6 on Jan. 25 to pass a bill that uses the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism to define Jew-hatred in state law. The legislation, which now heads […]
January 23, 2024

Nola teen killed in territories spoke of “martyrdom,” apparently involved in stone throwing

The funeral of Palestinian-American Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, who was killed during a clash in Samaria, in Al-Mazra’a Ash-Sharqiya near Ramallah, Jan. 20, 2024. Credit: Flash90. From SJL and JNS reports A Palestinian teen from the New Orleans area who was killed in the territories on […]
January 18, 2024

Analysis: Failed History — N.O. teacher union trashes Israel in call for ceasefire

Weapons found by the Israel Defense Forces at a Kindergarten in Gaza on Dec. 23. IDF Twitter. United Teachers of New Orleans, the union of teachers and school employees in New Orleans, issued a statement on Jan. 10 calling for a cease fire in Gaza, […]
January 12, 2024

Foundation suggests donations marking Saban’s retirement

While Nick Saban and his wife Terry been active philanthropically, especially through their Nick’s Kids and with Catholic causes in Tuscaloosa, including the University of Alabama student Catholic Center being named for them, what does the retirement of arguably the greatest coach in college football […]
January 11, 2024

Opinion: Alabama marking Tu B’Shevat with first-ever experimental gassing execution

By Cantor Michael J. Zoosman The state of Alabama inadvertently has chosen a Jewish holiday for its first-ever experimental gassing to death. On Jan. 25 of this year, while many in the Jewish world mark Tu B’Shevat in the Hebrew calendar, Alabama will gas a […]
January 10, 2024

Aladdin actress returns to Birmingham

By Lee J. Green Nicole Lamb can’t wait to take the magic carpet back to the Magic City. The Birmingham native returns home with the national Broadway tour of Disney’s “Aladdin,” coming to the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex, Jan. 24 to 28. “I saw so many […]
January 9, 2024

Rustin, Sowell, and renewing Black-Jewish relations

Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin in 1965. Source: Library of Congress By Irit Tritt (JNS) — In the aftermath of Hamas’s barbaric Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel and the Jewish people, Jewish Americans were dismayed by the response from those they considered allies. Years […]
January 8, 2024

Show about Heschel’s friendship with King comes to Alabama

Just after King Weekend, the Birmingham Jewish community will host a performance on Jan. 16 of a new one-man show about the close relationship between Martin Luther King Jr. and one of the 20th century’s leading Jewish thinkers. “Heschel’s Passover Eve” portrays Rabbi Abraham Joshua […]