2021

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 […]

By Kent Osband Last month, your vice-president issued two open letters to the Mountain Brook Schools community, berating MBS leaders for canceling a contract with the ADL for anti-bias education and impugning the motives of critics of the ADL program. As a highly educated, cosmopolitan […]

As Ned Goldberg steps down after 33 years as executive director of Jewish Children’s Regional Service, a familiar face will be succeeding him. New Orleans native Mark Rubin, who joined the social service agency in September 2012 as its first-ever development director, will step into […]

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards at signing of collaboration agreement between the Water Institute of the Gulf in Baton Rouge and Israel’s Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, at Ben Gurion University on Oct. 29, 2018. The Abraham Accords were signed between Israel and four Arab […]

Temple Sinai, Lake Charles After several statewide Zooms that brought Jewish community leaders from across Louisiana together for discussions on how to help the Lake Charles community after Hurricane Laura hit the area last August, a simple question emerged: Why get together only when there […]

Judge Roy Moore and “Erran Morad” (Screenshot) A Federal judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by twice-ousted Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore against actor Sacha Baron Cohen. In a 26-page ruling on the $95 million suit, Judge John P. Cronan of the […]