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An FBI agent listens to the operation pre-briefing for Operation Dead Hand in Los Angeles on Jan. 30, 2024. Credit: Federal Bureau of Investigation. (JNS) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee charged David Aaron Bloyed, of Frost, Texas, on Sept. […]

By Lee J. Green A love letter to the parents of Jewish playwright Ken Ludwig gives a heartwarming opening to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s 2024-25 season. “Dear Jack, Dear Louise” – winner of the Helen Hayes Best New Play Award in 2020 – will come […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]