George Dansker will hold the latest in his continuing Jewish Composer Lecture Series with a concert tonight at 7:00 p.m. following worship services at Touro Synagogue, 4238 St. Charles Avenue.
“All the Sounds of the Earth Are Like Music: The...
Pianist and singer Gary Negbaur returns to New Orleans on Tuesday, January 24, putting in an appearance at the new Valiant Lounge, 6621 St. Claude Avenue in Arabi. The show runs from 7:00-10:00 p.m with no cover charge.
Lawrence J. Epstein. The Dream of Zion: The Story of the First Zionist Congress. London Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. 172 pp. $36.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4422-5466-4.
The topic of this book is specific: the First Zionist Congress in 1897...
LOS ANGELES (JTA) – Although many of the Jewish Golden Globes nominees went home empty handed, a few actors and filmmakers with Jewish ancestry — and one young director who might be classified as an “honorary” Jew — made it...
M. S. Rau Antigues is closing its exhibition “Napoleon: General. Emperor. Legend.” tomorrow, January 7. The exhibit, which opened in early November, is filled with beautiful objects d’art, most of which are curated from the Napoleonic era.
(JTA) — Carrie Fisher, the actress best known for playing Princess Leia in the original “Star Wars” films, died days after suffering a heart attack on an airplane. She was 60.
Fisher’s family spokesman Simon Halls confirmed to multiple publications...
(JTA) — Some artists whose works are on display at Ivanka Trump’s home are asking her to remove them to protest what they called the “racism” of her father, President-elect Donald Trump.
Visual artists Jonathan Horowitz and Alex Da Corte...
