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“From the river to the sea, Israel is meant to be.”
OP-ED: From Meta’s rules to our lips By ALAN SMASON The proverbial other shoe has dropped. In a ruling on Wednesday, the Oversight Board, a group of lawyers and experts who decide what is considered improper, inflammatory or hate speech on Facebook and Instagram has made a ruling regarding the pro...
Community vigil draws over 400 to Uptown JCC By ALAN SMASON With only about 24 hours notice, over 400 members of the Jewish community mobilized on Tuesday night, September 3, assembling solemnly as twilight dimmed at the Uptown JCC’s Bart Field to remember all the hostages who were captured or kil...
Community candlelight vigil slated to honor slain hostages tonight A Jewish community candlelight vigil will be held tomorrow night, Tuesday, September 3, at the Uptown Jewish Community Center Bart Field at 7:30 p.m. Clockwise from top left: Almog Sarusi, 25, Eden Yerushalmi, 24, Hersh Goldberg-Poli...
In just an hour, the community vigil to honor the memories of the six murdered hostages will begin at the Bart Field at the Uptown Jewish Community Center. The New Orleans Jewish Clergy Council and the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans plus their community partners will be hosting this event:
Community candlelight vigil slated to honor slain hostages tonight A Jewish community candlelight vigil will be held tomorrow night, Tuesday, September 3, at the Uptown Jewish Community Center Bart Field at 7:30 p.m. Clockwise from top left: Almog Sarusi, 25, Eden Yerushalmi, 24, Hersh Goldberg-Poli...
Biden says Netanyahu is not doing enough to release the hostages By RON KAMPEAS (JTA) — WASHINGTON — Heading into a White House meeting to discuss how to proceed in the wake of Hamas’ murder of six Israeli hostages, President Joe Biden said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not doi...
Rachel Goldberg-Polin at son Hersh’s funeral: ‘Finally, you’re free’ By PHILISSA CRAMER (JTA) — Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s mother looked almost as the world has gotten to know her when she took the podium at her son’s funeral in Jerusalem. Rachel Goldberg, mother of killed U.S.-Israeli hos...
At funeral, Israeli president asks for forgiveness from Goldberg-Polin family for failing to protect and save their son Hersh By PHILISSA CRAMER (JTA) — Israeli President Isaac Herzog apologized for Israel’s failure to free the captives held by Hamas in his comments at the funeral of Hersh Goldb...
Netanyahu apologizes for the first time to a hostage family, blames Hamas for captives’ deaths By RON KAMPEAS (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized for not freeing hostages as Israel woke up to the shattering news that Hamas terrorists murdered six captives who were on the...
Israel is reeling from an unbearable tragedy. But does it change anything? By RON KAMPEAS (JTA) — Minutes after the announcement that the bodies of six hostages had been found in the Gaza Strip, the main organization of hostage families announced that it would “stop” the country in protest. ...
OP-ED: The war that keeps on waging By ALAN SMASON There are two major dates on the upcoming calendar of which we should all be aware. The first, of course, is the ignominious anniversary of October 7, the day Hamas, in coordination with other Iranian proxies like Islamid Jihad, chose to invade nort...
Hezbollah missile attack seriously wounds Israelis in Galilee panhandle (JNS.org) – Two Israelis were wounded, including one seriously, when a Hezbollah anti-tank missile from Southern Lebanon scored a direct hit in the Galilee panhandle community of Kfar Yuval on Sunday afternoon. An Israeli who ...
Man arrested after allegedly attacking Jewish students at University of Pittsburgh By RON KAMPEAS (JTA) — A man wearing a keffiyeh and wielding a bottle wounded two Jewish students at the University of Pittsburgh, according to the university, local news reports citing police and Jewish community s...
Joe Biden: ‘I am devastated and outraged’ by murder of American-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin By JTA STAFF (JTA) — President Joe Biden said he was “devastated and outraged” by the murder in Gaza of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an American citizen who was among the 251 people abducted from Israel b...
IDF recovers six hostages’ bodies from southern Gaza (JNS.org) – Israeli forces recovered the bodies of six hostages from an underground tunnel in Rafah in southern Gaza overnight Saturday. Clockwise from top left: Almog Sarusi, 25, Eden Yerushalmi, 24, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, Ori Danino, 25,...
NJY Camps & Machane Am Echad entertain 110 at-risk Israeli Scouts “It’s like a dream,” was the overriding sentiment among the 110 Israeli teens from Israel’s war-torn northern and southern borders who participated in NJY Camps 10-day Machane Am Echad/One People program among the sparkling la...
Columbia antisemitism task force reports ‘crushing’ discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students By LUKE TRESS (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Jewish students at Columbia University have been driven out of their dorm rooms, chased off campus, compelled to hide their Jewish identity, ost...
Temple University investigating pro-Palestinian march at campus Hillel By JACKIE HAJDENBERG (JTA) — Temple University in Philadelphia is investigating pro-Palestinian demonstrators who marched on the campus Hillel and used megaphones to “chant directly at the occupants within the building,” Ri...
What Kamala Harris said about Israel and the war in Gaza in her CNN interview with Tim Walz By PHILISSA CRAMER (JTA) — Kamala Harris did not surprise during her first sit-down televised interview with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, on Thursday evening. On all topics, she reiterated co...
Berlin Holocaust memorial vandalized with antisemitic graffiti By JACKIE HAJDENBERG (JTA) — A Berlin Holocaust memorial was vandalized with pro-Palestinian and antisemitic graffiti, local police said Thursday. The ‘Block of Women’ monument in central Berlin commemorates the non-Jewish women wh...
A Jewish Florida man looks to South Dakota in bid to overturn Supreme Court ban on school prayer By ASAF ELIA-SHALEV (JTA) — When the Supreme Court sided with Jewish plaintiffs and others in 1962 in ruling that requiring prayer in school violates the First Amendment, one vocal critic of the decisi...
Hostage rescued from tunnel in Gaza; Bedouin father of 11 was a security guard on Oct. 7 By BEN SALES (JTA) — Israeli troops have rescued an Israeli hostage from southern Gaza, the military announced Tuesday. the eighth captive held by Hamas to be brought back alive by Israeli forces since Oct. 7....
President Biden refers to Rabbi Michael Beals as "my rabbi." What did Rabbi Beals say regarding the issue of President Biden's aging?
Hezbollah’s target was Mossad HQ in central Israel (JNS.org) – The main target of Hezbollah’s Sunday morning attack was likely the Glilot base near Herzliya, the site of Mossad headquarters and various military intelligence units, according to preliminary Israeli assessments. The New York Ti...
Man arrested in France synagogue arson, as ISIS claims German stabbing attack ‘to avenge Muslims in Palestine’ By PHILISSA CRAMER (JTA) — A man has been arrested in France after a synagogue there was set ablaze early Saturday morning, in at least the second French synagogue arson in recent mon...
Israel attacks Hezbollah in Lebanon, preempting ‘extensive attack’ By JNS STAFF (JNS.org) – The Israeli military attacked sites in Lebanon, from which Hezbollah was planning to launch rockets and missiles at Israel in an “extensive attack,” early in the morning on Sunday, the Israel Defens...
Police officer wounded in blast outside synagogue in France (JNS.org) – A French police officer was wounded on Saturday in a bombing outside the Beth Yaakov synagogue in the seaside resort town of La Grande-Motte, close to Montpellier in southern France. Suspected terrorist wearing a Palestinian...
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Josh Shapiro: ‘Donald Trump is obsessed with me’ By RON KAMPEAS (JTA) — CHICAGO — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said that Donald Trump can’t quit him. Or antisemitism. Shapiro was asked Thursday about a social media post in which the former president and Republican nominee singled him out...
In accepting nomination, Kamala Harris pledges to seek ceasefire, support Israel and work toward Palestinian freedom By RON KAMPEAS (JTA) — CHICAGO — Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democrats’ presidential nomination with a pledge to ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself, to...
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This is a repeat broadcast for those unable to have been in person at the Yom Hashoah program ("A Night of Reflection") at the National World War II Museum, which was livestreamed, and the in-person performance by Mona Golabek of "The Children of Willesden Lane" that was not livestreamed.
Repeat broadcast: Join host Alan Smason as he welcomes playwright and performer Mona Golabek regarding her performance tonight, May 6, of "The Children of Willesden Lane" at the National World War II Museum. In person registration is closed and the performance will not be livestreamed.
Join host Alan Smason as he welcomes playwright and performer Mona Golabek to help promote her upcoming performance of "The Children of Willesden Lane" at the National World War II Museum on Monday night, May 6 beginning at 5:30 p.m. A Holocaust Memorial Day program will be held prior to the performance. Registration is free at https://nationalww2museum.org
A poem by Alan Smason for your seder.
Join host Alan Smason as he welcomes three recent members of the Israel Solidarity Mission from the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans, David Shepard, Bali Lavine and Rabbi Phil Kaplan.
A Passover poem by Alan Smason.
Join in the AJPA meeting in New Orleans for general membership and the Future of AJPA discussion.
Alan Smason and Arlene Wieder Smason welcome family and friends to watch the unveiling of the inscription on their mother's headstone.
Join Crescent City Jewish News editor and theatre critic Alan Smason as he interviews Robbie Sherman the son of Robert Sherman of Disney's Sherman Brothers fame and his CEO Bret Goldin as they launch Sherman Theatrical Entertainment
Join American Jewish Press Association president Alan Smason, the editor of the Crescent City Jewish News as he interviews awardi-winning Israeli reporters and editors Maayan Jaffe Hoffman and her husband Gil Hoffman.
