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At the opening retreat last fall for the 2020-21 Avodah Service corps members in New Orleans On July 21, the 2020-2021 cohort of Avodah’s New Orleans Service Corps celebrated the culmination of their service year as part of an online national celebration. Avodah New Orleans […]

Team Israel baseball at the Tokyo Olympics. Source: Team Israel Baseball/Facebook. The clock struck midnight on Team Israel’s run in the Olympics, as the team placed fifth in the six-team field of Olympic baseball, going 1-4 overall. Analysts had given Team Israel a 45 percent […]

Florida license plate; one will soon feature a boost to Israel, December 2020. Credit: Courtesy. By Faygie Holt (JNS) — The state of Florida notified Unilever, the parent company of Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream, on Aug. 3 that it has 90 days to cease its […]

From top left to bottom right: Bennie Goodman, Cab Calloway, Artie Shaw, Louis Armstrong. (Wikipedia) By Richard Friedman  Jews and jazz. They go together and are inextricably linked. Jewish jazz musicians, performers and promoters have had a heavy influence on this uniquely American genre as it […]

Becky Seitel (right) with husband Alan and survivor Ilse Nathan. (BHEC photo) By Richard Friedman  There are those who pursue their creative talents for personal fulfillment. Then there are those who use their gifts to change the world. Birmingham’s Becky Barker Seitel, who died July 24, did both. […]

By Richard Friedman American-style football is growing in Israel, thanks in part to a private Christian school in Huntsville. It is at that school, Madison Academy in Huntsville, that Israeli football enthusiast Ori Shterenbach’s love for the American-birthed game deepened after a great experience coaching […]

At the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics. NBC broadcast screenshot. Israel’s national baseball team will have a cheering section in Metairie during the Olympics as Jeremy Bleich suits up for the blue and white. A Metairie native and alumnus of the Isidore Newman School, […]

By Steven Emerson (IPT News) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Georgia chapter was intent on making news on July 19, but apparently it couldn’t decide how. The objective was clear – to smear the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange, because GILEE takes American […]

The Jewish Fertility Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides financial assistance, emotional support and educational programs for people experiencing infertility, is opening an office in Birmingham this month. Founded in Atlanta in 2015, the organization is working to replicate itself in communities across the country […]