OXON HILL, Md. (JTA) – With the Nov. 24 deadline for negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program looming, Vice President Joe Biden vowed that the United States “will not sign a bad deal.”
OXON HILL, MD. (JTA) – U.S. Supreme Court justices Stephen Breyer and Elana Kagan talked about their Jewish identities at the opening plenary of the 2014 General Assembly conference of the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA).
Congregation Beth Israel installed Rabbi Gabriel Greenberg on Sunday as its new spiritual leader, as much of the Orthodox synagogue’s membership was joined at the Audubon Tea Room by other supportive members from the ranks of local...
In the spring, Allen Fagin was unanimously named the new executive vice president and chief professional officer of the Orthodox Union (OU), the governing body of Orthodoxy. Fagin is a successful lawyer from...
Despite the failure of a speaker to deliver the keynote address, the Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana (JEF) kept the conversation local and on point with its 2014 Annual Event on Sunday, Oct. 26, at the Hilton...
The celebration of the formal installation of Cantor David Mintz took place during last week’s Shabbat service at Touro Synagogue, taking normally anticipated joy and gratitude to soaring levels of ebullience through worship...
While music historians generally agree that jazz music grew out of a confluence of European harmony and varying forms of music largely gleaned from the African-American experience including blue notes, improvisation and syncopation, little acknowledgment...
Tony Award winner Joanna Gleason made a long overdue trip to New Orleans this weekend appearing at Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carré along with sexy and talented string quartet Well Strung. Gleason...
Perhaps there is no greater period of Jewish influence on jazz as when it first sprang up on the streets of New Orleans in neighborhoods before and after the heyday of ragtime....
