(JTA) – Somebody had better put a mezuzah on the Lincoln Bedroom. Whoever ends up winning the election in November, one thing seems certain: For the first time in history, Jews will be in the president’s inner family...
AVODAH, the Jewish Service Corps, held its annual Partners in Justice Brunch at Touro Synagogue on Sunday, May 15 to a full crowd gathered in the Jacobs Social Hall and for the third time in as many...
Playing non-traditional gender roles in Shakespeare has informed much of the artistic and scholarly career of Lisa Wolpe. The 57-year-old female interpreter of such traditional male roles as Hamlet, Romeo, Brutus and Shylock...
During the weekend of May 12-15, when performances of the children’s opera, Brundibár, are being staged in the U.S. Freedom Pavilion of the National World War II Museum, 85-year-old Ela Stein Weissberger...
In addition to the annual remembrance honoring the six million Jewish souls slain in the Holocaust, the 2016 Yom Hashoah Community-Wide Holocaust Memorial Program offered a short work from a children’s opera and the unlikely story of...
Marking its 25th consecutive year, Touro Synagogue’s Jazz Fest Shabbat proved to be a spiritual and popular haven for both regular Reform worshippers and attendees of the music festival marred by unrelenting...
The Jewish community is preparing for a full weekend of activities, occupying both sides of the spectrum of emotions from joy and festivity to sorrow and solemnity.
Kicking off a week later than normal due to the onset of the...
The Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana (JEF) honored several exceptional members of the New Orleans Jewish community for their philanthropy and professional service at its Annual Event on Sunday, April 17 at noon at the Westin...
A kitchen fire apparently sparked by a self-cleaning oven engulfed the Congregation Beth Israel rabbinic home in flames late Tuesday afternoon, April 19, totally destroying its contents.
Rabbi Gabriel Greenberg, his wife Abby and their two small...
With approximately nine weeks left before he leaves the Greater New Orleans area, Rabbi Ethan Linden is preparing for his last Passover season in New Orleans with mixed feelings. He is looking forward...
