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In 2017, Rep. Valarie Hodges addressed Louisiana’s 50th anniversary celebration of the reunification of Jerusalem, at the Capitol in Baton Rouge. (Southern Jewish Life file photo) A year after Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards issued an executive order forbidding state […]

An ICEJ delegation visited Israeli communities along the Gaza border and viewed a new specially designed ATV security vehicle donated through the ICEJ to a local moshav. Photo courtesy ICEJ. (JNS.org) — After Israel absorbed as many as 700 rockets […]

On April 23, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed an historic resolution declaring that Alabama not only celebrates last year’s move of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, but that Alabama takes the unprecedented step of recognizing Jerusalem “as the […]

Veteran Israeli journalist Gil Hoffman will be in Birmingham for a series of talks, including a community-wide presentation at Knesseth Israel. Hoffman has been the chief political correspondent and analyst for The Jerusalem Post for 20 years. He teaches international […]

While most of the pro-Israel universe was focused on the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference in Washington on March 25, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant was making his own bit of history. With Israeli Consul General Lior Haiat […]

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant and Israeli Consul General Lior Haiat at the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, last November. Mississippi is looking to join its neighbors in barring state investments in companies that participate in anti-Israel boycotts. The Mississippi House […]

Above: Jewish Voice for Peace activists protest at a New Orleans City Council meeting on Jan. 25, 2018, when the city rescinded a resolution proponents said two weeks earlier was about universal human rights, but the groups, including JVP, then […]

On Jan. 15, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards announced the signing of a research agreement between Check Point Software Technologies of Israel and the Stephenson Technologies Corp., the applied research corporation at Louisiana State University, which serves U.S. federal markets. […]

Above: Israeli Consul General Gilad Katz presents Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards with photos from the state’s Israel mission, as Bill Hess looks on, before the Jan. 28 panel in New Orleans Over two evenings, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards […]