In anticipation of Rosh Hashanah, the Crescent City Jewish News spoke with four rabbis in the New Orleans area about their thoughts on the holiday, discussing in particular its relationship to personal change and...
By DEAN M. SHAPIRO, Special to the Crescent City Jewish News
When Reese Johanson arrived in New Orleans in 1999 she was pleasantly surprised to learn that the rabbi of the Atlanta synagogue she attended as a child, Edward Paul...
Outlining his vision for a newly energized and committed Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans, CEO Arnie Fielkow ascended to the podium for the first time at an annual meeting held Tuesday, September...
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, John Travolta reaped hearty helpings of admiration at last night’s “Free the Tatas” Disco Ball given as a gala fundraiser and social event at the Cannery in Mid-City by...
(JTA) — Rabbi Adam Starr was returning from an emergency trip to Houston, where he had helped a colleague clean up his synagogue after Harvey swept through that city, when his phone began to buzz. Jews from...
(JTA) — It was 5 a.m. Wednesday and Hurricane Irma was pounding the tiny Caribbean island of Saint Martin. Rabbi Moishe Chanowitz and his wife, Chana, the Chabad movement’s emissaries there, gathered their five children and hunkered...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — An array of Jewish groups and lawmakers attacked as immoral President Donald Trump’s decision to end an Obama-era program granting protections to illegal immigrants who arrived in the United States as children.
Jewish New Orleans tour guide Julie Schwartz will lead the second of two tours sponsored by JNola and the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans on Sunday, September 3 with check-in beginning at 9:30 a.m.
(JTA) — The Jewish community in Houston has seen “devastating” damage from Hurricane Harvey and could take years to recover, a federation official said.
“Recovery like this — it is a disaster larger than Katrina in terms...
