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John Boutté, a featured performer on the HBO series “Treme,” headlined the 24th annual Jazz Fest Shabbat held at Touro Synagogue on Friday, April 27.
Attendees at the historic St. Charles Avenue sanctuary filled most every seat, enjoying a memorable night of prayer and revelry that marked the first weekend of the 2012 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
Cantor Jaime Marks performed with the Panorama Jazz Band and...
Arik Ze’evi, the Israeli bronze medal winner at the 2004 Summer Olympics, is heading to the 2012 summer games after he won the gold medal at the European Judo Championships yesterday in Chelyabinsk, Russia. This marks the fourth time the 35-year-old has won a European gold medal and gives him an 8 in the world judo rankings. He is the oldest gold judo champion on record.
Following the Bernie Madoff scandal, Hadassah Chief Operating Officer Larry Blum levied accusations of wrongdoing against then national treasurer and current national president Marcie Natan and then national president Nancy Falchuk. An investigation was launched by the American women’s Zionist organization by the independent law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, LLP and headed by attorney Dan Kurtz.
In his final report issued on April 18 Kurtz announced:...
Two Israeli windsurfers came home in December with medals secured at the Sailing World Championships in Perth, Australia. Lee Korzits and Nimrod Mashiah both earned a spot at the 2012 Summer Olympics to be held in London, England in July and August. Korzits won the women’s gold medal in windsurfing and Nimrod Mashiah won the men’s bronze medal. Mashiah, ranked second in the world standings at the time...
Warren Weinstein, a 70-year-old Jewish-American kidnapped in a brazen daylight attack at his home in Lahore, Pakistan, is now in the hands of the Al Qaeda terrorist organization, according to a statement from its leader, Ayman Al-Zawahari. Weinstein’s home was attacked August 13 on the eve of the Ramadan festival when three gunmen posing as neighbors bringing food prior to the month-long fast rushed past the guards and pistol whipped...
Outspoken U.S. Representative Barney Franks (D-MA) announced today he would not seek re-election in 2012. Franks, who was the first openly gay national political figure, had served as a Representative for his district since 1980. He volunteered his sexual preference in 1987, but had been re-elected with little difficulty until 2010, when he achieved a narrow victory for his seat. Franks has been seen as one of the most liberal...
Miriam Rosenbaum, an Orthodox woman who attends Princeton and lives in the Bronx, was named one of 32 Americans recipients of the prestigious Rhodes scholarship. Rosenbaum, who plans to study bioethics while at Oxford, eventually hopes to become an advocate for elderly medical care and the disabled. Rosenbaum credited being inspired to help those less fortunate when she became familiar with the story of her grandfather’s Holocaust rescue by a...
Wodka Vodka released an announcement via its Twitter feed that the company had decided to remove its controversial holiday billboards. The billboards were displayed in several New York area locations containing a large text tagline, “CHRISTMAS QUALITY, HANUKKAH PRICING.” Above the large text contained an image of two dogs– one with a yarmulke and the other with a Santa Claus hat.
The New York Regional Office of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called the...
Gilad Shalit is spending his second weekend of freedom as a patient at the Rambam Hospital in Haifa. According to reports, Shalit sustained damage to his hand during his 2006 abduction. Seven pieces of embedded shrapnel were removed during his surgery on Friday. Reportedly, his doctors are optimistic the surgery was a success.
The largest conference of European rabbis to meet in Poland since World War II has ended after addressing a number of what is perceived to be anti-Semitic threats to Jews living in Western Europe. According to the Jerusalem Post, so-called “militant secularism” is seen as a threat to two very important Jewish institutions: brit milah (ritual circumcision) and shechita (ritual kosher slaughter). Coupled with anti-Israel sentiment, the rabbis expressed concern...
