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.
(JNS) –Just one month after the inauguration of the 21st Knesset, parliamentarians voted to disband the government and send the country into national elections for the second time in six months.
On May 27, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that I would be ordaining a gay Orthodox rabbinical student who was denied the opportunity to receive smicha from his own Orthodox yeshiva. On May 27, I did...
The Greater New Orleans Section of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) honored its outgoing president and her board on Tuesday night, May 21, at its annual Closing Event. Held at the...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel is on red alert over outbreaks of fires across the country, some on a massive scale. At least one community, founded by the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, has been burned to the ground.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Al Sharpton appealed to Reform Jews for a united front in facing down anti-Semitism, racism and other forms of bias and acknowledged his role in stoking division, recounting how the Rev. Martin Luther King...
Judith Viorst famously chronicled childhood with a series of picture books, most notably the acclaimed “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,” and a pair of poetry collections, one of which...
Congregation Gates of Prayer held its annual gala on Saturday night, May 11, with a perfectly executed theme reflective of its own name and an homage to the opulence of the Roaring Twenties. Titled “The Great Gatesby,”...
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“)
Just before every performance of “The Pianist of Willesden Lane,” the one-woman play based on the book she wrote with Lee Cohen (“The Children of Willesden Lane”), Mona Golabek holds onto a...
In Israel, one of the most solemn days of the year is immediately followed by one of the most joyous. Yom Hazikaron, a day of remembrance for the fallen soldiers of war...
