A baseball player and honor student: What we know about the teen who confessed to burning Mississippi’s oldest synagogue

Hours before a destructive arson fire at the oldest synagogue in Mississippi, the 19-year-old suspect posted an antisemitic meme on Instagram, an account that appears to belong to him shows.

What we know about the alleged arson at Mississippi’s largest and oldest synagogue

It’s the oldest synagogue in Mississippi, a thriving religious center that served Jackson’s small but vibrant Jewish community for more than half a century.