Tuesday, June 25th 2019
By ALAN SMASON
New Orleans has long treasured its rich musical heritage. From its status as the birthplace of jazz to its secure place in the annals of funk and rhythm and blues, music has been the common thread that binds its citizens. On Thursday night, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) proved that point with the first of a series of annual concerts designed to celebrate New Orleans artists as well as to promote its agenda against anti-Semitism and all forms of prejudice and hate.
A sold-out crowd of 300 raised $90,000 on Thursday night, June 20, at the Jazz Market...
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By ALAN SMASON, Special to the CCJN
Two years ago the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal (MAC) organized an exhibit on Canada’s favorite son writer, composer, singer and cultural icon, Leonard Cohen. Titled “A Crack in Everything,” the immersive and interactive exhibit included a collection of commissioned works from artists...
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By ALAN SMASON, Exclusive to the CCJN
Avodah New Orleans, the Jewish service corps, honored three New Orleans area individuals for their stellar work in promoting social justice at its annual Partners in Justice Brunch on Sunday, June 2.
Attorney Melanie Bronfin, executive director of the Louisiana Policy Institute for...
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(JTA) — A local judge in Chicago has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the decision by Cook County prosecutors to drop charges against actor Jussie Smollett for lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack.
Cook County Judge...
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(JTA) — Best-selling novelist Judith Krantz, whose first novel “Scruples” was published the year that she turned 50, has died.
Krantz died on Saturday at her home in Bel Air, California at the age 91, Deadline reported.
According to the...
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(JTA) — Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum, had a response to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez referring to migrant detention centers as “concentration camps.”
“The U.S. is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is exactly what they are,” the...
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton arrived in Israel and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid tension between the United States and Iran.
Bolton told reporters prior to a meeting Sunday with Netanyahu that Iran should...
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By ALAN SMASON
While there was nothing particularly Jewish about Mac Rebennack, the iconic New Orleans singer, arranger, composer and sometime voodoo adherent who was laid to rest on Saturday, there may never have been someone who was more attuned...
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