(JWeekly.com) — Liana Kadisha, a senior at Stanford University, says some Jewish students on her campus feel they have to hide who they are. The 22-year-old knows of several who tuck their Star of David necklaces inside...
(JNS.org) — At sundown on Saturday, May 23, Jews around the world will start the two-day holiday (which lasts only one day in Israel) of Shavuot. Also known as the Festival of Weeks because it marks the...
Shavuot, the Festival of Weeks, will begin Saturday night, May 23, at sundown. The holiday is the culmination of the Counting of the Omer, the 49-day period the falls between the second night of Passover and the beginning of the...
With only a few days before Shavuot arrives, CCJN staff members are busy preparing copies of the latest edition of “The Best of the Crescent City Jewish News,” for local distribution. The 44-page edition is scheduled to hit stands prior...
Could the events that transpired in Baltimore several weeks ago be repeated here in New Orleans? New Orleans Police Superintendent Michael Harrison addressed that question and others in a talk during Shabbat service at Temple Sinai...
Chef Alon Shaya, who is the principal chef at Domenica Restaurant in the Roosevelt Hotel, Pizza Domenica and the recently-opened Israeli and Middle Eastern themed restaurant Shaya, won the top honor as the...
When tubist Ben Jaffe, the creative director of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, moved forward to speak on Friday evening, April 24, as one of the featured performers for the 24th annual Jazz Fest Shabbat, he uttered...
(JTA) — New Orleans is an unlikely locale for an Israeli restaurant.
After all, The Big Easy is famous for its decadent shellfish-and-pork-heavy cuisine, whereas the Jewish state is known for its use of fresh vegetables and...
As the final hours waned on Yom Hazikaron, Israel Memorial Day, the New Orleans Jewish community gathered at the National World War II Museum to stand in solidarity with the Jewish State and to welcome the arrival...
It’s taken more than two years for a favorable confluence to occur so that the Preservation Hall Jazz Band can headline this year’s 24th annual Touro Synagogue Jazz Fest Shabbat on Friday, April 24.
