Chabad Lubavitch of Louisiana held its annual Chanukah at the Riverwalk event on December 6 with music and a laser video show to the delight of the approximate 200 people assembled there.
Phyllis Taylor and Gordon “Nick” Mueller, whose institutions are located just a few feet from each other, found themselves near one another again on Tuesday night, December 1, as they were recognized by the local chapter of the Anti-Defamation League...
For the very first time representatives of all three area Reform Jewish temples – Temple Sinai, Touro Synagogue and Congregation Gates of Prayer – took part in the annual Ten Commandments Hike sponsored by the Southeast Louisiana Council of the...
Representatives of the Archdiocese of New Orleans and the New Orleans Jewish rabbinate gathered before an audience on the campus of Loyola University on November 23 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vatican II declaration...
(JTA) — A Jewish Tulane Medical School student was shot in the stomach while trying to stop the attempted abduction of a woman on a New Orleans street.
Peter Gold, 25, a fourth-year medical student from Longwood, FL., was hospitalized in...
TEL AVIV (JTA) — His best friend remembered him starting up a children’s game on their senior school trip. His teacher retold the time he made Hebrew jokes on a whiteboard during class. His rabbi recalled him...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Three people were killed in a shooting attack in the West Bank, including an American yeshiva student, hours after two Jewish men were stabbed to death in Tel Aviv at a prayer service.