January 18, 2025

Tenn. GDL-affiliated man arrested after trying to access Nashville JCC disguised as Orthodox rabbi

An east Tennessee man affiliated with the neo-Nazi Goyim Defense League was arrested after trying to gain entry to the Gordon Jewish Community Center in Nashville while wearing a disguise intended to make him look like an Orthodox Jew. Travis Keith Garland, 31, was arrested […]
January 17, 2025

Sen. Graham: Not going to second-guess Netanyahu on deal with Hamas

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, Nov. 27, 2024. Credit: Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90. By Mike Wagenheim (JNS) — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Israeli media on Jan. 16 at the Israeli embassy in Washington that he trusts the judgement of […]
January 13, 2025

Eitan Weiss named Israel’s new consul general in Atlanta

Eitan Weiss, from X. Israel’s cabinet approved Eitan Weiss as the next Consul General to the Southeastern United States, based in Atlanta. He will succeed Consul General Anat Sultan-Dadon, who will have served six years in that position by this summer. The appointment was part […]
January 11, 2025

Father of Israeli wounded in New Orleans: ‘Part of his skull is missing’

National Guardsmen and a police officer at a blocked off street, a block from Bourbon Street in New Orleans after an ISIS supporter killed 14 people and wounded at least 35 others early on Jan. 1, 2025. Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images. From […]
January 10, 2025

MSJE gets major gift to name the Chapman Family Research Center

Amy Chapman Fulton and Dave Fulton In November, the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in New Orleans cut the ribbon to open a major expansion. Now, that expansion has a new name, thanks to a major gift. The naming is the result of a […]
January 6, 2025

Two bills to fight Jew-hatred introduced in Tennessee Legislature

Tennessee State Capitol. Credit: Andre Porter via Wikimedia Commons. By Izzy Salant (JNS) — The State of Tennessee adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of Jew-hatred in May 2022. On Jan. 2, Mark Pody, a Republican member of the state’s Senate, introduced a […]
January 5, 2025

One Israeli on respirator, other has serious injuries after New Orleans attack

Memorial on Bourbon Street for the victims of the Jan. 1 terrorist attack in New Orleans, La., on January 4. Credit: Emily Kask/AFP via Getty Images. (JNS) — Elad Shoshan, the Israeli consul to the southwest United States, told JNS over the weekend that he […]
January 4, 2025

Louisiana’s Johnson reelected speaker in contentious hearing, ICC sanctions pass

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) speaking with attendees at a fundraiser for U.S. congressional candidate Abraham Hamadeh in Paradise Valley, Ariz., on Aug. 22, 2024. Credit: Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons. By Andrew Bernard (JNS) — The U.S. House of Representatives re-elected Rep. Mike Johnson […]
January 3, 2025

Opinion: Connect the dots between the New Orleans attack and support for anti-Israel terror

A man reacts to a memorial on Bourbon Street in New Orleans for the people killed in a car-ramming attack on New Year’s after it reopened to the public on Jan. 2, 2025. Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images. By Jonathan Tobin (JNS) — […]