JERUSALEM (JTA) — On the morning of July 8, at the beginning of the Hebrew month of Av, the Western Wall plaza was a cacophonous mess. Women of the Wall, the activist group that holds women’s prayer services...
Billing her style as “a cross between Theodore Bikel and Tom Lehrer from a distinctly feminine voice,” award-winning Jewish singer, songwriter and musician Batsheva Capek captivated an enthusiastic audience at Congregation Gates...
When Joyce Pulitzer and David Seelig began to write a play back in 1998, neither of them could suspect that the project would develop the longest of legs. Over the course of several years they collaborated on a play in...
Peter M. Wolf has established himself as a noted scholar in his many architectural history and art studies and as a preservationist in many of his civic endeavors. But the 77-year-old New Orleans native was scarcely prepared...
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decisions on Wednesday to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s voter-mandated Proposition 8, several national and community leaders have weighed in on the matter.
When she first met Bessie Margolin, Marlene Trestman had no expectations. It was, after all, an arranged meeting by a mutual friend at Isidore Newman High School. An introductory letter in the summer of 1974 suggested the...
It was tea time last Sunday, June 7, at the swank Ritz-Carlton Hotel for the Greater New Orleans chapter of Hadassah, the women’s Zionist organization. Other than major donors, the most celebrated group of annual contributors to...
Talk about a long time in coming. Nearly 41 years ago David Berger, a competitive student weightlifter athlete who had graduated from Tulane University, was one of 12 Israeli athletes tragically killed as a member of the Israel Olympics team...
AVODAH, the Jewish Service Corps, held its second annual Partners in Justice brunch at Shir Chadash Conservative Congregation on Sunday, recognizing Holocaust survivor Anne Skorecki Levy and civil rights attorney Bruce Waltzer for their outstanding commitment to seeking justice in...
Members of the Jules Lazard Post #580 of the Jewish War Veterans (JWV) gathered at Shir Chadash Conservative Congregation Sunday morning to take part in a minyan prayer service that was followed by a program and breakfast in the social...
