With the first weekend of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival looming, many Jewish New Orleanians are preparing the enjoy the music, food and crafts found at the historic New Orleans Fair Grounds. But for those...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Alan Gross did not warn his family he was launching a hunger strike, but hearing the news, they understood why: The U.S. government subcontractor languishing in a Cuban prison feels forgotten.
Jews living in the eastern Ukraine community of Donetsk are fearful of a recent anti-Semitic flyer bearing the official self-proclaimed separatist government seal in addition to the seal of Russia. The leaflet demands all Jews 16 years of age and...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The suspect in deadly shootings at two Jewish institutions in suburban Kansas City made no secret of his hateful views, but nobody anticipated the attack that claimed three lives on Sunday.
By HEATHER NORRIS, Courtesy of the Baltimore Jewish Times
(JNS.org) — Kansas’s tight-knit Jewish community was rocked just one day before the beginning of Passover as an alleged gunman took the lives of three people and injured another in attacks...
Joe Krown will bring a bit of his own brand of yiddishkeit to the Touro Synagogue pulpit this year as he and his trio headline the 23rd annual Jazz Fest Shabbat on Friday,...
Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, considered by many as one of the foremost Jewish thinkers from the Reform world, has a clever scientific nomenclature by which he describes the close, binding relationship between the...
Tony Kushner has always felt the influence of Abraham Lincoln, even as a youth growing up in Lake Charles a century after his death, he admitted to a packed audience gathered at the New Orleans Museum of...
What could be more Jewish than a celebration with Broadway music as its theme? In an homage to the Great White Way titled “Jewish Roots of Broadway: A Musical Night from Gershwin to Godspell,” the Jewish Regional...
