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Molthrop entertains JCC crowd with Lafitte lecture

By ALAN SMASON, SPECIAL TO THE CCJN

With his clean cut hair that suggestively droops over his right forehead, Morgan Molthrop looks more like an All-American football player than an author. The dashing figure in a dark blue blazer and...

Update: After bomb threats, FBI to coordinate with JCCs in ‘new reality’

By BEN SALES

NEW YORK (JTA) — The FBI and Department of Homeland Security will be assisting local Jewish community centers in bolstering security after 16 JCCs received bomb threats on the same day.

Officials from the FBI and Homeland...

2 soldiers killed in Jerusalem truck-ramming attack are US citizens

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two of the four Israeli soldiers killed in the truck-ramming attack in eastern Jerusalem were American citizens.

The soldiers were buried Monday in separate cemeteries a day after the attack on the promenade in the Arnon Hatnatziv...

Author on Jewish pirate Lafitte to appear on Monday at JCC

Local author Morgan Molthrop will be the featured speaker at this Monday’s monthly Morris Bart, Sr. Lecture at the Uptown Jewish Community Center on January 9.

Molthrop, who has published six other books, is promoting his latest book “Jean Lafitte’s...

New Marx Brothers book is definitive

By ALAN SMASON, Special to the CCJN

Robert Bader grew up in New York City, where there were constant reminders of the Marx Brothers of stage and screen fame. He often caught their features on the small TV screen inside...

Chabad’s Chanukah at Riverwalk a warm, bright affair

By ALAN SMASON

Blame it on the lateness of the holiday this season or perhaps it was just the luck of the draw, but the annual Chanukah at the Riverwalk event put on by Chabad Lubavitch of Louisiana was not...

John Kerry rips Israel’s ‘pernicious’ settlement policy, lays out 6 principles for Mideast peace

(JTA) — Secretary of State John Kerry laid out six principles that the United States believes must govern the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict while rebuking Israel’s “pernicious policy of settlement construction.”

In lengthy remarks from the State Department in Washington,...

Why I light my menorah in the window — and you should, too

By EDMON J. RODMAN

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — In the weeks before Chanukah, with anticipation of the holiday brightly filling my mind, the darkening news of rising anti-Semitism in the U.S. began to filter in. As I pictured our menorahs burning...

Six13 entertains at JCC Community Chanukah celebration

Six13, a New York-based male a cappella group that entertained at the White House’s Chanukah party last week, performed for an hour as the centerpiece of the JCC’s Community Chanukah Celebration. The event, held in the Uptown JCC, 5342 St....

Tel Aviv museum hosts impressive Bob Dylan exhibit

By ALAN SMASON, Special to the  CCJN

When it was announced several weeks ago that Bob Dylan had received the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, there were shock waves felt around the world, resonating within the literati, many of whom...