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Prominent legal blog calls out anti-IHRA letter from Jewish professors
The UCR sign at the center of the University of California, Riverside, covered in pro-Palestine, anti-Israel and anti-Zionist symbols, April 30, 2024. Credit: Fluffy89502 via Wikimedia Commons. A group of “Concerned Jewish Faculty Against Antisemitism” issued a letter opposing efforts by states, universities and other […]
Sen. Cotton: “No choice” but to impeach Biden over Israel armaments delay
U.S. President Joe Biden’s choice to halt offensive munitions transfers to Israel has inspired some Republicans to see a parallel in former President Donald Trump’s conduct with Ukraine which led to his first impeachment. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) stated on social media on Thursday that […]
Alabama-Israel Legislative Caucus formed
Alabama Legislators and Israel Consul General Anat Sultan-Dadon launch the caucus in Montgomery on May 8. As the Alabama Legislature winds down its annual session, numerous legislators delayed heading out to an end-of-session party on May 8 to announce the formation of the Alabama-Israel Legislative […]
Emory’s Jewish problem
Turman Hall at Emory University in Atlanta, also the Charles and Peggy Evans Anatomy Building. Credit: Daniel Mayer via Wikimedia Commons. By Jonathan Feldstein So, Emory has caved to the antisemitic anarchists who have tried to take control of the campus, both physically and ideologically. […]
Yom HaShoah after Oct. 7: How Holocaust education has failed
Credit: Melnikov Dmitriy/Shutterstock. by Jonathan Tobin (JNS) — For decades, American Jewry has marked Yom Hashoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day — with the same rituals and rhetoric. They heard from survivors, whose numbers continue to dwindle and who bore witness about their horrific experiences. They […]
Sound, fury and opposition, but no arrests at Deep South campus protests
Anti-Israel demonstration in Birmingham, November 2023 (SJL file) While building takeovers and illegal “Free Palestine” encampments being cleared on college campuses across the country have been all over the news, demonstrations in the Deep South have generally been quieter — and faced more pushback. Conversely, […]
North Carolina man arrested, charged with threatening Georgia rabbi
Similar postcard received at Ali’s Cookies in Atlanta in February A 31-year-old man has been charged with threatening a rabbi in Georgia and faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of […]
Fla’s Sen. Rick Scott: ‘Horrific’ Jew-hatred, violence ‘like a cancer’ on campuses
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) meets with Jewish and pro-Israel students at the George Washington University Hillel in Washington, D.C., on May 1, 2024. Credit: Office of Sen. Rick Scott. (JNS) — Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) shared his “disgust” over antisemitic protests on campuses during a […]
Senators express concern over plan to bring Gaza refugees to U.S.
Displaced Palestinians pitch tents next to the Egyptian border with the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 8, 2024. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90. A group of 35 Republican Senators, including most of the ones from the South, urged the Biden […]
Republican Senators urge Judiciary Committee hearings on violations of Jewish students’ rights
Pro-Palestinian students disrupt an Israel event on the campus of the University of California, Irvine. Credit: Ariana Rowlands/Campus Reform. On May 2, Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee urged Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the committee chairman, to hold a hearing regarding “flagrant civil rights […]
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August 7, 2023
Henry S. Jacobs Camp Director Anna Herman helps campers board the buses on the last-minute HSJ Magical Mystery Tour One of the unheralded qualities necessary in Southern Jewish communities is the ability to pivot — but Jewish interconnectedness around the region often makes it easier. […]
June 23, 2023
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Southern Jewish Life magazine, which has covered the Jewish communities of the Deep South for over three decades, announced that it will be expanding with a new online edition covering the rest of the South. Starting with August 2023, Southern Jewish Life […]
November 11, 2020
Self-described “local” paper has almost no local reporting, wild circulation numbers — but plenty of ads from politicians and others thinking they are reaching the local Jewish community Editor’s Note: This piece won the national Boris Smolar Award for Excellence in Enterprise or Investigative Reporting, […]
Editorial: Jewish community needs to tell antisemitic Presbyterian Church (USA) goodbye