While Hurricane Katrina was an absolute nightmare for most New Orleanians, it was my own harrowing and real-life version of a Dickensian tale played out in two cities. It was the best of...
Sidney Smith is telling the improbable story of his exit from New Orleans after Katrina. Sitting in his tony Uptown home festooned with the famous images of rock performers and famous film and TV vestiges he has...
As a celebrated artist and caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld is still without peer. His ability to capture the essence of a performer or personality with but the most diminutive of dots, the boldest of...
Marty Sachs’ office in McWilliams Hall on Tulane University’s verdant campus is like those of so many creative academics: a small box crowded into a suite with the other tight boxes of his...
The National Jewish Committee on Scouting (NJCOS) hailed the historic decision made by the Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) that eliminated all national barriers for gay adult leadership. At the same time a new effort was...
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Does the hit Pixar movie “Inside Out” hold a clue as to why many Jews find it so difficult to engage with Tisha B’Av? Could its cast of characters — Joy, Sadness,...
The Press Club of New Orleans honored the Crescent City Jewish News for the second year in a row with a first place award for journalistic excellence. CCJN editor Alan Smason won the first place award in the category of...
With the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaching, Urban League of Greater New Orleans (ULGNO) president Erika McConduit-Diggs reflected on the slow progress the African-American community has made in recovery.
