Tuesday, March 19th 2024 |
By ALAN SMASON
Cantor Rebecca Garfein took the opportunity to show her talented secular side at the Temple Sinai Gala this past Sunday, keeping the banter on the microphone lively as she described much of her life through song.
Accompanying the cantor on piano and providing the arrangements for the songs she sang was her longtime collaborator Bob Egan, who flew in from his residence in New Hope, Pennsylvania to...
The Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana (JEF) will be holding its annual gala this Sunday night at the Jerome S. Glazer Audubon Tea Room, 6500 Magazine Street. The event starts with a patron party at 6:00 p.m. and general admission follows at 6:30 p.m.
The sold-out annual fundraiser will honor Richard and Linda Friedman with the JEF’s Tzedakah Award, given to community members who made a major impact through their...
Astrith Baltsan, Ph.D., a noted Israeli pianist and music scholar will be in New Orleans on Saturday night as part of a Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans-sponsored event titled “Hatikvah: Hope Reborn.”
The concert is slated to begin at 7:30 pm in the Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall at Loyola University New Orleans. Tickets are available here.
The concert portion of the program...
The National World War II Museum wil host a memorial program tomorrow, Saturday, January 27, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. CST to honor the memory of the millions of people killed in the Holocaust.
The International Holocaust Remebrance Day event will be held in the U. S Freedom Pavilion of the Boeing Center.
Holocaust survivor Eva P. Nathanson will be a featured speaker during the program. Nathanson...
The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans is inviting participation with the commemoration of Martin Luther King Day.
The march will be held in accordance with the City of New Orleans as part of the official Martin Luther King Jr. Day March, starting at 10 a.m. on Monday, January 15 at Reverend A. L. Davis Park, 2600 LaSalle Street, in the Central City area.
The event is a part of...
For the second year in a rown, Jennifer Samuels, the owner of King Cake Hub, will be kicking off the Carnival season with a major party at Zony Mash, the next-door location of her temporary business between Twelfth Night and Lundi Gras.
King Cake Hub’s “Countdown to Carnival Party” will beh held in the tap room at Zony Mash, 3940 Thalia Street, beginning at 9 p.m. tonight, Friday, January 5,...
The Greater New Orleans Chapter of Hadassah, the Jewish Women’s Zionist organization, will be holding a special Zoom program live from Israel on Sunday, Dec. 17.
Titled “Israel & Hadassah Heartbeats, the program will begin at 3:00 p.m CST.
Renowned journalist Tova Korczyn, an author, scientific editor and freelance film director, will speak from her home in Tel Aviv. She will discuss life today in Israel. Korczyn has contributed to...
The annual Chanukiah lighting event sponsored by Chabad Lubavitch of Louisiana will be held on Thursday, Dec. 7 at the Riverwalk to coincide with the first night of Chanukah.
The event starts at 5:00 p.m and runs till 7:00 p.m.
The lighting will follow speeches by local authorities and Chabad rabbis led by shliach Rabbi Zelig Rivkin. The wooden Chanukiah is the tallest structure of its type in the state....
The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans is sponsoring an event to build a replica of the City of Jerusalem in Legos at Blessed Sacrament Parish (Joan of Arc Church), 8321 Burthe. Ages intended for the build are grades five and above as well as adults and siblings to help with the build tomorrow, Monday, Dec. 4 between 4:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Latkes and sufganiyot will be served through the...
Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans held its 2023 Campaign Celebration at the Audubon Tea Room on Thursday, November 30.
Campaign chairs Melinda Mintz and Dr. Marc Behar were congratulated for their efforts by Federation CEO Robert French, who marked the end of his tenth month in that post.
Brian Katz, Federation board chair from 2021 through this year was also honored at the dinner.
Sarah Schatzmann was the recipient...
