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Arson at Jackson synagogue jolts Institute of Southern Jewish Life, but its mission persists

by Grace Gilson March 6, 2026March 6, 2026

(JTA) — The arson in December at Beth Israel Congregation didn’t just damage the only synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi. It also threw into disarray the operations of a Jewish nonprofit […]

Gratz Cohen grew up in a slaveholding Jewish family in Georgia and fought for the Confederacy. (Photo/Courtesy Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation State Historic Site)
Posted inOff the Shelf

S.F. author reckons with Southern Jews’ slave ownership in ‘Liberty Street’

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman May 15, 2024May 16, 2024
Charlotte Seeleman Shlenker (1838-1920), the author's great-great-grandmother, was the daughter of Magdalena Gugenheim Seeleman, who showed up in the 1860 Louisiana slave census (left) as having owned a 29-year-old woman. Charlotte's husband, Isaac, offered a "girl" for sale in an advertisement dated April 10, 1861. (Photos/JTA-Courtesy Barry Block)
Posted inUncategorized

My Jewish ancestors owned slaves. Here’s what I’m doing about it.

Rabbi Barry H. Block by Rabbi Barry H. Block and JTA December 13, 2021December 13, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene at a press conference in Dallas, Georgia, Oct. 15, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Dustin Chambers-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Don’t laugh at Marjorie Taylor Greene — her Jewish constituents must live with her hate

by Zoe Katz and Forward February 3, 2021February 3, 2021
Democratic Senate candidates Rev. Raphael Warnock (left) and Jon Ossoff greet supporters during a rally in Marietta, Georgia, Nov. 15, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Jessica McGowan-Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Georgia Senate winner Raphael Warnock: Heschel and King ‘are smiling in this moment’

by Shira Feder and JTA January 6, 2021January 7, 2021
A family walks into the sunset on the beach with their young daughter
Posted inOpinion

My mom is Japanese and my dad is Jewish. Their love is not a punchline.

Hanah Bloom by Hanah Bloom and JTA December 7, 2020
Judah Benjamin, seen in a photo circa 1860, served as attorney general, secretary of war and secretary of state for the Confederacy. (Photo/JTA-MPI-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Our synagogues’ names are on a monument to Judah Benjamin. It’s time to take it down.

Rabbi Asher Knight by Rabbi Asher Knight June 29, 2020June 29, 2020
The synagogue in Breckenridge, Tex., in 1929. (Basil Clemons/University of Texas at Arlington Archives)
Posted inU.S.

A Texas synagogue burned to the ground, but there were no Jews left to mourn it

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA November 27, 2019November 27, 2019
(Photo/JTA-Maor Winetrob-iStock-Getty Images Plus) 
Posted inFirst Person

As a Jewish teen in the Bible Belt, I face anti-Semitism all the time

by Sam Berndt August 21, 2019
(From left) the four members of Temple Mishkan Israel in Selma, Alabama: Hanna Berger, Ronnie Leet, Joanie Gibian Looney and Charles Pollack — stand in front of the Torah ark. (Photo/JTA-Amy Milligan)
Posted inU.S.

Selma’s only synagogue has 4 members — but they have a plan for the future

Ben Sales by JTA and Ben Sales July 8, 2019July 8, 2019

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