Southern Jewish Life Magazine
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Southern Jewish Life is the magazine serving the Jewish communities of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and northwest Florida. We are a unique magazine for a unique community. Our commitment includes mailing to every Jewish household in the region, without a subscription fee.
Southern Jewish Life Magazine
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Vandalized billboard in New Orleans A billboard in New Orleans condemning antisemitism was defaced, to the applause of local anti-Israel groups. The billboard on the 1800 block of North Rampart was purchased by JewBelong, a national nonprofit known for its pink billboards promoting Jewish inclusiveness ..read more
Southern Jewish Life Magazine
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Courtesy Honest Reporting. By Richard Friedman From where I sat, I could see everyone’s face. A small group of Birmingham journalists, media people and community activists were focused on the speaker. Gil Hoffman, a longtime writer for Israel’s Jerusalem Post and executive director of Honest ..read more
Southern Jewish Life Magazine
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Consul General Sultan-Dadon and Political Affairs Director Karen Isenberg-Jones (left of Consul General) with the co-chairs and members of the newly established Mississippi-Israel Legislative Caucus. Courtesy the Israeli Consulate. On Feb. 25, Mississippi joined the growing number of states to have an Israel Legislative Caucus ..read more
Southern Jewish Life Magazine
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As the Indycar season begins this weekend in Florida, history will be made as Robert Shwartzman will become the first Israeli driver to take to the track. At a Jan. 10 event in Charlotte, PREMA Racing announced it would join the NYY INDYCAR Series, introducing ..read more
Southern Jewish Life Magazine
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The Old Alabama Capitol building in Montgomery The Alabama legislature is considering a bill that would mandate “Judeo-Christian” prayer in the state’s public school classrooms — with a 25 percent reduction in state education funding as an enforcement mechanism for districts that fail to comply ..read more
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Consul General Anat Sultan-Dadon is interviewed by Zoe Weil Two main tenets of Judaism are welcoming the stranger and rescuing the captive, and both themes were emphasized at the annual meeting of Birmingham’s Levite Jewish Community Center on Jan. 30. Center CEO Brooke Bowles spoke ..read more
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Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan talks with David Jackson of the Philos Project while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of the 1965 Bloody Sunday civil rights demonstrations, in February 2021. SJL file. Sixty years after a large number of Jewish activists from across the country ..read more
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Historical marker in Knoxville, Tenn., for Roddie Edmonds. SJL file. By Jonathan D. Salant (JNS) — Near the end of World War II, U.S. Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds was ordered to separate the Jewish soldiers from the other Americans being held as prisoners of ..read more
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Mugshot of Mordechai Brafman. Courtesy Miami-Dade County Corrections. (JNS) — A 27-year-old Jewish plumber is accused of firing 17 times from a semiautomatic handgun at two vacationing Israeli tourists, whom he mistook for Palestinians, in Miami Beach at about 9:30 p.m. on Feb. 15. Mordechai ..read more
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Auburn Basketball Coach Bruce Pearl sports tefillin on the court at Auburn during a visit from Athletes for Israel. History was made when the Associated Press and USA Today men’s college basketball polls were released today, as the top three teams in the country have ..read more