The following statement was crafted and issued jointly by the South Central Region of the Anti-Defamation League and Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans on Friday, May 10:
We support free speech, but stand firmly against speech that stokes hatred...
Dear Editor: A Feb. 28 Jewish Telegraphic Agency news item in the Crescent City Jewish News reported that “a gunman” murdered Elan Ganeles, a young man from Connecticut, on a road near Jericho. From that description, one could be...
One aspect of David M. Litman’s op-ed (“Troubling Social.Change: NYU, CAIR and excluding mainstream Jewish society“) has been clarified: CAIR, notwithstanding its “civil rights organization” flimsy trappings, has disclosed its antisemitic terroristic foundation.
Like most people, I was saddened to read the article in the Crescent City Jewish News: “Prince Philip, who opposed Nazis and was the first British royal to visit Israel, dies at 99.”
Dan Diker’s OP-ED: The BDS-BLM alignment: Implications for Israel and Diaspora Jewry does a very good job of explaining the challenges presented to Jews and Zionists by proponents of the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction movement as well...
For a Jew to stand for civil rights and against racism is always admirable. However for a Jew to support Black Lives Matter (BLM) is myopic. By supporting Black Lives Matter, a Jew is embracing...
After witnessing the second plane hit the second Twin Tower on 9/11, I flew to Bnei-Brak to seek the counsel of my late relative Rav Avrohom Genechovski zt”l.
The board of LimmudFest New Orleans has reluctantly canceled their event for 2020 out of concerns that a large gathering might contribute to the spread of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) worldwide pandemic.
The two phrases that best characterize the essence of my mother’s neshama are Aiyshet Chayil and Tzadeykess. She was born in Kuzmino, Czechoslovakia, ninety years ago. She was the sole survivor of her family who were...
