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February 12, 2021
Florida State University. Credit: Flickr. Continuing a year of drama over the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the student senate at Florida State University dealt a large setback to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement by soundly rejecting three anti-Israel resolutions. The resolutions were written by Ahmad Daraldik, […]
February 12, 2021
Aaron Bloch has been named the new executive director of the Goldring Family Foundation Center for Jewish-Multicultural Affairs, one of two new Centers of Excellence at the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans. Bloch will succeed Mithun Kamath, who departed for a senior position in […]
February 11, 2021
Pictured, from left, are Consul General Anat Sultan-Dadon and Wendell Shelby-Wallace on the day they met at Morehouse College. By Richard Friedman How does a young African-American Christian, from a smaller, lesser-known town in Louisiana, wind up working for Israel’s Consulate General to the Southeast […]
February 9, 2021
David Schoen, former President Trump’s impeachment lawyer, speaks on Fox News. Source: Screenshot. As the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump gets underway on Feb. 9, one of his two attorneys will be a Jewish lawyer with ties to Alabama. David Schoen, who […]
February 9, 2021
Shared Legacies For 20 years, the Mobile Jewish Film Festival has been drawing crowds in several venues throughout South Alabama. While Covid is forcing this year’s festival to retool as a virtual event, company is still coming over. The Pensacola Jewish Federation and the Jewish […]
February 8, 2021
By Moshe Phillips Why are some right-of-center Jewish groups finding it so difficult to publicly condemn antisemitic congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene? A few, such as the Republican Jewish Coalition and the Coalition for Jewish Values, have spoken out. Herut too condemns Marjorie Taylor Greene’s extremism […]
February 7, 2021
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and US Secretary of State George Shultz. (JNS photo) By Richard Friedman The news that long-time American statesman and diplomat George Shultz had died at age 100 on Feb. 6 brought back a pivotal memory for me. His passing recalled […]
February 7, 2021
As the online LimmudFest 2021 approaches, the first speakers and topics are being announced for the regional learning event. Usually held in person over a weekend in New Orleans every other March, LimmudFest was postponed last year as the Covid pandemic began. This year, the […]
February 6, 2021
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) speaking to the House of Representatives ahead of a vote on whether or not to remove her from House committees. Source: Screenshot/C-Span. by Jonathan Tobin (JNS) — Marjorie Taylor Greene is no martyr. Though there was no precedent for a […]