(JNS.org) — While millions of people around the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day this past Wednesday, Jan. 27, an Iranian government-sponsored Holocaust cartoon contest was in the works. This year’s competition is not the first of...
When her three daughters were born, Charisse Sands made sure they were all made life members of Hadassah. So, it was only natural when she was due to be installed as the new president of the Greater...
Volunteer organizers have announced that “early bird” registration for LimmudFest New Orleans, the self- billed weekend festival of “Big Tent” Jewish learning, is now open through their Limmudfest New Orleans” website.
Lynn Wasserman, who previously was in charge of programming...
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Last month, rumors flooded the Internet that former Israeli President Shimon Peres was dead. True to form, the man who tirelessly trumpets his country’s high-tech sector took to Facebook to clear the air.
The first week of the Carnival season began in earnest on Wednesday night – Twelfth Night – with the streetcar ride of the Phunny Phorty Phellows that left the Carrollton barn and traveled up to Lee Circle and back as...
When Jewish author Ron Chernow published his epic biography on Alexander Hamilton in 2003, he had no idea of the impact it would have on Broadway audiences more than a decade later. That’s...
Members of the East Jefferson Parish Clergy Association (EJPCA) joined with other ordained clergy from throughout Greater New Orleans to express their solidarity with one another and to denounce divisive rhetoric and anti-Muslim fervor on Monday, December...
By ALAN SMASON, Theatre Critic, WYES-TV (“Steppin’ Out)
It may seem an odd choice, but Andrew Lloyd Webber has chosen a 2003 Jack Black film vehicle as the basis of re-establishing his preeminence as a rock musical composer. “School of...
Randy Fertel, an author who studied the influence of his own family and several other Jewish families on the development of jazz music in its early days along South Rampart Street, appeared at...
Listen Up!, a Jewish a cappella four-person group specializing in their own interpretations of popular and Israeli songs, were the headliners at the Jewish Community Center’s Chanukah Community Celebration today from 4:00 – 6:30 p.m.
