At Tulane University, a school where 27 percent of the student body is comprised of Jews, Shabbat, is no minor matter. Yet, despite the hundreds of students who show up to weekly dinners,...
With little more than a half day before cancellation, a Kickstarter fundraising campaign to cover the expenses for a new studio recording and the eventual release by community member Nick May, reached and exceeded its goal. By raising more than...
It is not by accident that Rabbi Deborah Silver, the first female Conservative pulpit rabbi in New Orleans, is having her installation occur over this Shabbat weekend that also corresponds to the celebration...
Local clergy reacted to a new policy from the Orthodox Union (OU) barring women from serving as clergy at its 400 member congregations across the United States.
Touro Synagogue honored husband and wife power duo Hal and Kathy Shepard with the presentation of the congregation’s annual L’Chayim Award on Sunday evening, January 29. The gala event held in the social hall...
For the seventh time, George Dansker, an opera enthusiast and Broadway musical expert, presented a lecture on one of the major Jewish composers of popular and theatre music, this past Friday, January 20 at Touro Synagogue.
How did Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, a ragtag group of rough and tumble disenfranchised citizens, use propaganda to transform themselves from a political joke to the supreme political party in Germany in just a few short...
(JTA) — President Donald Trump promised to put “America first” in his inaugural address, pledging to prevent other countries from taking advantage of the United States and to return control of the country to its people.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Authorities report that 27 Jewish institutions in 17 states across the country received bomb threats today, the second such wave of mass disruption in two weeks. Not one of the threats proved to be valid and no...
