(JTA) — Benjamin Netanyahu appears likely to win a fifth term as Israel’s prime minister as right-wing parties have maintained their majority in nationwide elections on Tuesday.
With more than 95 percent of the vote counted, Netanyahu’s...
At 95 years young, Betty Kohn was ready last Saturday, March 31, for a night of revelry and a nod to haute couture as the Jewish Children’s’ Regional Service (JCRS) presented its biggest fundraising gala on record, the...
After a year hiatus due to two signed non-competition agreements, Stephen Sontheimer and Billy Henry, formerly of Tharp-Sontheimer-Tharp Funeral Home of Metairie, began work in the funeral industry again on April 2. The pair will now work at Lake...
Born to Jewish parents in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on the border of Siberia, composer, concert pianist, poet and visual artist Lera Auerbach has made a huge impact on the international...
On Thursday, March 28, the Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana (JEF) honored Sandy Levy, who announced her retirement from the non-profit corporation last spring after serving as its executive director for 27 years....
(JNS.org ) — The Jewish state has seen remarkable diplomatic success in recent years—from the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as its official capital last year to Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights this week, to emerging relations...
(JNS.org) — The Hamas rocket that shattered a village home in the Sharon district of central Israel, north of Tel Aviv early on Monday morning, is an attack that for Israeli leadership represents a step too far.
Although she is a native New Orleanian, Rabbi Katie Bauman, recently selected to take over as the next senior rabbi at Touro Synagogue, has spent limited time in her hometown since she was...
(JTA) — On the stormy evening of Sept. 17, 1978, with President Jimmy Carter as their witness, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin stepped to a table at the White House and signed...
(JTA) – Every year before Purim, my inbox and social media fill up with dire exhortations from rabbis and yeshivas warning against the dangers of celebratory excess – as if drunkenness on the holiday were something new.
