It was a night to long remember for the Kullmans – Ruth and Larry. Members of their family and their many friends, including two mayors and three rabbis, were present among the 200-plus...
This week local theaters are filled with several offerings of interest to the New Orleans Jewish community. With Steven Schwartz’s “Wicked” ensconced at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, New Orleanians are busy setting new...
Last week, the Rabbinical Council of America, one of the largest unions of Orthodox rabbis in the world, with over 1,000 members in 14 countries, announced its refusal to accept the impending “ordination as clergy” of the...
JERUSALEM (JTA) – Haredi Orthodox youth mobbed the Western Wall plaza by the thousands to protest Women of the Wall as they held their monthly prayer service.
The youth, many of them students from haredi Orthodox yeshivot,...
(Tazpit News Agency)- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held the weekly government meeting at Mount Herzl on Sunday in honor of Yom Yerushalayim, or Jerusalem Day which was celebrated yesterday on Wednesday, May 8.
It’s been a remarkably good year for Ruth Kullman and it looks like it’s getting even better. Back in February she received the National Council of Jewish Women’s coveted Hannah Solomon Award for her many years of civic service.
Touro Synagogue’s 22nd annual Jazz Fest Shabbat went back to the roots of traditional jazz with clarinetist Michael White as the headliner for the event on Friday, April 26. The event played to a full house of...
For Touro Synagogue Cantor Jamie Marx, the selection of Basin Street Records artist Michael White as the star for the 22nd annual Jazz Fest Shabbat this Friday evening was a no-brainer. White, a heralded clarinetist and important...
Frank Towers remembers the day through the haze of 68 years, a footnote at the end of World War II. Matt Rozell was never there, but through his efforts and those of his...
Seventeen energetic Tzofim – Israeli Scouts – made the celebration of Yom Ha’atzmaut, or Israel Independence Day, an upbeat affair at the Uptown Jewish Community Center on Monday night. The Scouts, who all hail from Tel Aviv kept dozens of...
