Touro Infirmary Foundation held its annual gala at Mardi Gras World this past Saturday night, November 4, honoring Dr. Thomas Oelsner, a retired nephrologist who served as Touro Infirmary’s first Chief of Nephrology....
For “The King and I” company manager Steve Varon the business of show business has long been in his blood. Usually, though, in his capacity as the representative of the show’s producers on...
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”)
There is an adage to which many critics adhere that there is only one “i” in review; ergo, critical analysis which employs the first person should be similarly limited. But the current...
Dr. Tom Oelsner, a member of the Judah Touro Society (JTS) and the longtime chief of the Nephrology Department at Touro Infirmary, will be honored with the JTS Award this Saturday night, Nov.4,...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Eight people were killed and 11 more were injured as a truck rammed into a crowd and struck a bus in the worst act of terror in New York City since 9/11.
(JNS.org) — The United Nations has earmarked some $1.3 billion to fund Palestinian legal campaigns against Israel and to support the creation of an independent Palestinian state, in what experts are calling an unprecedented act singling out...
The phone rings right on time as it has for countless other interviews. The Caller I.D. prominently displays the name Van Fagan, but I know right away who it is. It is not...
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Orthodox Union (O.U.) is founding its own division to advance women as congregational leaders, as well as to promote Jewish study and communal participation for women in Modern Orthodoxy.
Honored for her work on behalf of battered and abused women and for survivors of cancer – especially breast cancer, of which she is one – Kim Sport was choked up with...
Metairie’s Congregation Gates of Prayer chose its next spiritual leader on Wednesday evening as the board of trustees unanimously voted in favor of Rabbi David Gerber to assume the rabbinate on July 1, 2018. Gerber, one of two rabbis presently...
