Microsoft should be proud. One of the most interesting PowerPoint slideshows created by one world leader – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – with the express purpose of convincing another – United States...
With her dirty blonde hair trussed in a long, braided ponytail, her T-shirt and her strong Ashkenazic features, Inbal Newman could easily be mistaken for a camp counselor at a Jewish summer camp....
Despite rumors of a protest demonstration by an anti-Israel fringe group outside the Jewish Community Center on St. Charles Avenue, this past Sunday’s Yom Ha’atzmaut celebration of Israel’s 70th birthday at the...
As it has done for the past 13 years, the New Orleans Jewish community came together to remember the lives of those lost during the Holocaust and to honor those who survived the ordeal and made the...
Isidore Newman School distinguished alumni Walter Issacson returned to his alma mater this week as featured speaker at the tenth annual Bernard Herman Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, April 17.
Issacson, who recently returned to the city to become a professor at...
(JNS.org) — Following a solemn remembrance of Israel’s fallen on Wednesday as part of Memorial Day commemorations, Israelis kicked off the celebration of its milestone 70th anniversary on Wednesday night in Independence Day festivities at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
Touro Synagogue served as the setting for the regional premiere of an oratorio based on “The Diary of Anne Frank,” following Friday evening worship services there on April 13. Members of the Symphony...
When clarinetist and music professor Steven Cohen returned to New Orleans last week to appear in concert with the Miró Quartet, it was a working vacation, but also a trip to a place he...
In the early 1940s, Annelies Marie Frank was just an ordinary Jewish teenager, one of thousands living in Amsterdam under Nazi occupation. Despite the hatred being stirred up by the Nazis against...
Alon Shaya has had a storied career in the culinary industry. Twice a James Beard Award recipient, Shaya’s star was flying high only a year ago when he was named Best Chef in...
