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 In 2017, Rep. Valarie Hodges addressed Louisiana’s 50th anniversary celebration of the reunification of Jerusalem, at the Capitol in Baton Rouge. A year after Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards issued an executive order forbidding state agencies from doing business with companies that participate in boycotts […]

B’nai Israel in Pensacola announced a change of venue for the congregation’s 120th anniversary concert on June 30. The event will now be in the congregation’s sanctuary. The concert will feature Pensacola native Cantor Moshe Bear, musical director of HaZamir Long Island and hazzan of […]

An 11-year-old girl in Murfreesboro is being commended for speaking out as classmates persisted in doing Nazi salutes in school, and the school has decided to discontinue a program that sparked the controversy. When the girl told classmates to stop doing the Nazi salutes, she […]

Six months after Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards led a trade mission to Israel, two major deals with Israeli firms were signed, involving central and northwest Louisiana. Delek US, the American operations of Israel’s Delek energy conglomerate, announced on May 23 that it will invest […]

A campaign has begun to establish the first Fisher House in Louisiana, on the site of the New Orleans VA Hospital. Fisher Houses are places where military and veterans’ families can stay at no cost while a loved one is receiving medical treatment. Since the […]

Jesse Unkenholz will receive the Joanie Plous Bayer Young Leadership Award Until he retires as executive director of the Birmingham Jewish Federation at the end of December, Richard Friedman will be the longest-tenured Federation executive director in the country, having served in that role since […]

The Marcuses at Regions Field, with Children’s in the background by Lee J. Green Allstate Insurance’s slogan is “you’re in good hands.” Thanks to Allstate insurance agent Nathan Marcus, hands at the Birmingham Barons games are waving to Children’s Hospital of Alabama patients, families and […]

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (SJL file) Three weeks after the Alabama Legislature came under fire for considering an anti-abortion bill that referenced the Holocaust, criticism is pouring in from most of the Jewish community now that the nation’s most restrictive abortion bill has passed and […]

Graffiti at Northshore Jewish Congregation in Mandeville, Sept. 2018 On April 30, the Anti-Defamation League released its annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, showing “near-historic levels of anti-Semitism in 2018, including a doubling of anti-Semitic assaults and the single deadliest attack against the Jewish community in […]