The first installment of 2015’s Jewish Composer Lecture Series presented by librarian, writer, music critic, and scholar George Dansker took place in the Garden Pavilion at Touro Synagogue this past Friday. Titled “Look...
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — How big of a “We” were the Jews in “We shall overcome”? Since the nationwide release of “Selma” a week before the national holiday commemorating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., I...
The tenth annual Baton Rouge Jewish Film Festival got off to a great start on Wednesday and will continue after taking a break for the Shabbat holiday tonight.
The Baton Rouge Jewish Film Festival is the closest such dedicated festival...
(JTA) -Hundreds of thousands of people marched in a unity rally in Paris to denounce terrorism and honor the victims of three attacks in Paris over three days.
No official police estimates have been released on the number of marchers...
(JTA) — All hostage takers are dead, and their hostages are being freed after simultaneous raids on the two sites in Paris, one a kosher supermarket, attacked by terrorists today.
At least four people in addition to the three hostage takers are...
Two hundred years ago – January 8, 1815 – the final of four skirmishes between a ragtag army of American defenders and an invading force of seasoned British soldiers took place on a...
(Editor’s Note: This article is a continuation on the influence of Jews on the development of jazz as an art form. While part one of “Jews and Jazz” focused on the local Jewish community, part two focuses...
By ARLENE WIEDER, First person exclusive to the CCJN
I was very lucky to have been raised in a very protective and insulated bubble in the uptown section of New Orleans during the early 1960’s. It was a time when...
The Honorable Mayor Mitch Landrieu was chief among a number of high profile personalities who welcomed Chanukah at the Riverwalk back to New Orleans after a two-year absence on Tuesday evening, Dec. 16, the first night of...
