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JCC Adloyadah to bow on Sunday

Adloyadah, the annual community-wide Purim celebration, will be held this Sunday, February 25, at the Uptown Jewish Community Center from 11:30 a.m. till 3:30 p.m.

The event will be held indoors regardless of weather, so parents should rest assured that...

CCJN, Bayou Buzz team up for live chat with Arnie Fielkow

The Crescent City Jewish News and its strategic partner Bayou Buzz, a website dealing with local and national politics, is holding a joint Facebook Live/Twitter chat on Thursday, February 22  at 3:00 p.m. with Arnie Fielkow, CEO of the Jewish Federation...

Florida synagogue holds healing service after mass school shooting; Jews among 17 dead

(JTA) — The Jewish community in Parkland, Florida, held a healing service after a mass shooting at a high school attended by many of the teenagers in the community.

Rabbi Bradd Boxman of Kol Tikvah, a Reform congregation in the...

Israel launches largest air strike since first Lebanon War

 

(TPS) — Israeli fighter planes conducted the largest strike on Syria since the first Lebanon War on Saturday morning hitting a mobile Iranian control center that sent a drone into Israeli airspace and then striking 12 targets in the...

Special Report: Price gouging alleged by AirBnb hosts

By ALAN SMASON

A report by AirbnbWATCH, a consumer watchdog group and an affordable housing advocate, is highly critical of local AirBnb hosts, whose rates for this weekend and through Carnival Day have shown unacceptable attempts to gouge the public...

Wall Street takes a dive; Dow drops 1175 points

By ALAN SMASON

Wall Street suffered its largest point drop in history on Monday when it posted a 1,175 point loss for the day in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. This represents a 4.61% loss in the market and coupled...

Gershwins’ ‘An American in Paris’ is sheer delight

By ALAN SMASON, Theatre Critic, WYES-TV (“Steppin’ Out”)

When ballet stars Robert Fairchild and Leanne Cope began their roles as expatriate American artist Jerry Mulligan and native Parisian ballerina Lise Dassin, they had no way of knowing their performances would...

‘L’dor v’dor’: Jewish women’s exhibit opened at Longue Vue

A new exhibit highlighting the accomplishments of generations of New Orleans women opened on February 1 with an early evening reception at Longue Vue House and Gardens, # 7 Bamboo Road. The exhibit is titled “l’dor v’dor: From Generation to...

French-Jewish Spy Recalls World War II Exploits

By NICHOLAS HAMBURGER, Special to the CCJN

Lying face-down in a field on the Swiss-German border, Marthe Cohn was frozen with fear. As a French-Jewish spy serving in the French Army during World War II, she had already made 14...

City Council meets amid rancor, withdraws controversial Resolution R-18-5

By ALAN SMASON, Special to the CCJN

It took the New Orleans City Council a little over an hour and a half to undo what they had passed two weeks earlier. When all was said and after 30 minutes of...