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Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (seated, left) and Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla., seated, right) meet with injured IDF soldiers and Border Police officers in the rehabilitation ward at Hadassah-Mt. Scopus hospital on Dec. 27, 2023. Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom (GPO). (JNS) — “You’re a heartless man,” […]

Brooke Bowles and Brian Cain By Richard Friedman They both are tall, friendly, energetic and passionate. They’ve each spent the bulk of their careers in fields different from what they are doing today. They are admired and valued. And they both have stepped forward to […]

Alabama Supreme Court building. Photo by Michael Barera/Wikipedia The controversial ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that stated frozen embryos are to be regarded as children in terms of their legal rights caused a frenzy of activity, from those whose in vitro fertilization procedures suddenly […]

Lior Berman in Auburn’s March 2023 game against Tennessee. Courtesy Auburn athletics The Bermanator was on a roll, and now his season is over. Lior Berman, a 6-foot-4 guard for the Auburn University basketball team, suffered an ACL injury during the March 2 game against […]

Amnon Weinstein, an Israeli luthier who established the Violins of Hope as a musical remembrance of the Holocaust’s victims, died on March 5. He was 84. The Violins of Hope, many of which were played in the death camps by Jews who survived and many […]

Governor Jeff Landry signs 11 crime-fighting bills from the special session on March 5. On March 5, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed a bill making Louisiana the fourth state to allow executions using nitrogen gas. The approval comes a month after Alabama conducted the first-ever […]

By Lee J. Green Fate might have played a small role in leading Hannah Schreer to playing one of the Fates in the traveling Broadway production of the “Hadestown” musical. The 2019 Tony-award-winning musical comes to the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex March 19 to 24. “It […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. President Joe Biden in New York, Sept. 20. 2023. Credit: Cameron Smith/Official White House photo. By Caroline Glick (JNS) — In an appearance this week on MSNBC, veteran Democratic political strategist James Carville of Louisiana made a […]

An east view of the old Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee. The new capitol is visible in the background. Credit: DXR via Wikimedia Commons. (JNS) — A bill to define antisemitism has passed through both chambers of the Florida legislature and now heads to Gov. […]