As more than one commentator has mused, this year’s Passover is very much like the very first Passover. The Torah tells us that prior to the Exodus from Egypt, as the Hebrews sheltered in their own homes...
Tom Dempsey, an unlikely hero with half a foot, but a full heart that made him a champion for legions of New Orleans Saints fans, died on Saturday from complications of COVID-19. He was 73.
Mayor LaToya Cantrell acknowledged that 73% of her citizens are obeying the stay-at-home mandate she initiated and that the spike in confirmed cases of COVID-19 and attendant death rates have slowed. But she urged caution and implored...
Ellis Marsalis, Jr., a pioneer in jazz music, a renowned educator and the patriarch of the undisputed first family of New Orleans jazz, has died from pneumonia brought on by infection of COVID-19. He was 85.
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards announced at his 2:30 p.m. press conference today, March 31, that the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases caused by coronavirus pandemic reached 5,237 with 239 deaths. That represents 1,212 new confirmed...
Emphasizing the heightened danger to the elderly from coronavirus infection, Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett urged Jews around the world not to welcome grandparents to their homes for Passover seder.
Bennett’s stern decree was promoted in a video greeting released...
As the United States overtook China and Italy today for the first time in the numbers of positive cases of COVID-19, the City of New Orleans (Orleans Parish) and Jefferson Parish also set gruesome numbers of their own as authorities...
With yesterday’s declaration of Louisiana as a “Coronavirus Disaster Area,” the nation’s attention is finally being drawn to Louisiana as numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases continue to rise throughout the state. As of today, March 26, Louisiana...
President Donald Trump declared Louisiana a “coronavirus disaster” on Wednesday, clearing the way for federal assistance to fight the rampant outbreak here. That was in response to a plea yesterday from Governor Jon Bel Edwards, who claimed...
Bemoaning the medical plight in his state due to rampant infection rates of coronavirus that have claimed 46 lives so far, Governor John Bel Edwards asked President Donald Trump to declare Louisiana a federal disaster area on...
