The Grand Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency was filled with more than 450 supporters of the Jewish Children’s Regional Services at its gala last Friday night, March 5. The event titled Jewish Roots of Celebration: Friends|Family|Frolic|Feast” lived up to its...
With the wisdom gleaned from the experience of researching, writing and submitting to rounds of editing and academic reviews, Marlene Trestman can testify that it truly takes a village to publish a scholarly...
Rabbi David Polsky, the spiritual leader of Congregation Anshe Sfard, the only non-Chabad Orthodox synagogue still located in Orleans Parish, announced in a newsletter yesterday his intention to step down from his pulpit when his current contract...
Chamber music fans were in for a very rare treat on Wed., Feb. 24, when the Goldstein-Peled-Fiterstein Trio starred in a program of music sponsored by the New Orleans Friends of Music (NOFM)...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Justice Antonin Scalia was a larger-than-life presence on the Supreme Court, where he championed a conservative judicial approach for three decades. He was found dead on Saturday at a resort in West Texas at...
Kurt Weill, the talented Jewish composer who was the most successful composer in Germany prior to his fleeing Nazi Germany, is the subject of a rare cabaret performance by singer Bremner Duthie and a jazz trio this...
Brian Hymel, a rising star in the international opera world with an established repertoire at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, will headline a concert titled “Love Infinite” at Temple Sinai on Sunday,...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The kibbutz where Bernie Sanders spent several months in the early 1960s has been identified, thanks to a rediscovered news story from 1990.
Sanders, an Independent Jewish senator from Vermont now running for the Democratic presidential nod,...
The last time Rebecca Berins Schwarz was preparing for an exhibit of her art to be shown, she was finishing undergraduate school in 1998. That was just prior to her launching a career...
