By DINA WEINSTEIN(JTA) — At the Freedom Summer anniversary conference in Jackson, Miss., the activists who registered black voters and taught in Freedom Schools under the threat of violence 50 years ago stood up to introduce...
LOUIS SALOMON LEDERMAN, a successful local real estate agent for Gardner Realty for more than two decades, died at his home on Thursday, August 14. He was 61.
A native New Orleanian, Lederman enjoyed a career at the former Prudential/Gardner...
Although Seville, Spain has a widely advertised museum-type attraction in its Jewish Quarter, a tour with Moises Hassan skips structured display cases in favor of a more authentic, anthropological approach to Jewish history...
By ALAN SMASON, Theatre critic for WYES-TV’s “Steppin’ Out”
The period of the early rock and roll era of the 1950s and early 1960s may have been the most prolific for Jewish songwriting couples. Aside from male writing teams like...
Two days before the official anniversary of her NOLA American Bakery, native New Orleanian Talya Rasner was caught up in the maelstrom of Operation Protective Edge’s ground assault in Gaza like all other...
(JTA) — When the Federal Aviation Administration announced a ban Tuesday on U.S. carriers flying to Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, prompting a slew of similar decisions by European carriers, the flight cancellations were...
The Crescent City Jewish News was singled out by the Press Club of New Orleans for a first place prize in Writing and InfoGraphics at the 56th Annual Excellence in Journalism Awards at Harrah’s Casino on Saturday night, July 19.
Despite the recent passage of a measure by the governing body of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) calling for divestment in companies doing business with Israel and the publication of an anti-Zionist pamphlet by...
That’s the message Israeli officials and security experts are relaying as the Israel Defense Forces conducts its third operation in six years against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
