Mark I. Pinsky has covered Southern politics since 1972 and is the author of “A Jew Among the Evangelicals: A Guide for the Perplexed.”
Mark I. Pinsky
By Mark I. Pinsky
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Fast Forward Civil rights attorney will be first Jew to serve in Alabama legislature in nearly 50 years
Phillip Ensler will continue to serve as executive director of the Jewish Federation of Central Alabama
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News There are no Jews in the Alabama legislature. That could soon change.
Raised in Manhattan, Phil Ensler was inspired by the civil rights movement to move to the Deep South and work on racial justice issues
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An effort is underway to honor the Rosenwald schools, created by a son of German Jews to serve rural Black communities
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On Tisha B'av 1967, those gathered in Jerusalem were too grateful to be focused on senseless divisions
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Culture The ‘poet laureate of Southern Jewry’ has died. Here’s how I remember him.
A gradualist and an optimist, Eli Evans argued that I was holding Southern Jews to an unfair standard
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Fast Forward AIPAC-backed candidate prevails in NC primary in which endorsement became an issue
State Sen. Valerie Foushee defeated Nida Allam, who was backed by three members of The Squad
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News Progressive NC Democrats withdraw endorsement over candidate’s AIPAC-affiliated donors
The group cited AIPAC's support for lawmakers who refused to affirm the 2020 presidential election results and its track record on Palestinian rights.
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Fast Forward Scheduled Duke speaker claims Zionists have ‘an unquenchable thirst’ for Palestinian blood
The long-simmering dispute between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian activists on the Duke University campus has boiled over again, this time over paid lectures and expenses for Palestinian activists accused of antisemitism, according to the Duke Chronicle. On March 16, the Duke student senate debated and then passed funding for the speakers at two separate events, a…
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