Rhodes scholarships snagged by NY scholars

November 24, 2011

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...

Mollye Penner, former drug manufacturer

November 22, 2011

MOLLYE BRONIK PENNER, the former president of Penner and Welch Drug Manufacturing and a lifelong resident of New Orleans passed away on September 19 from natural causes at Woldenberg Village. She was 86.

Penner...

Hurwitz Mintz expands, invests in future of New Orleans retail market

October 25, 2010

Nearly five years ago during the dark, uncertain days following Hurricane Katrina, Mitchell Mintz, the president of Hurwitz Mintz Furniture company, was,  understandably, skittish and apprehensive. It was a period that should have threatened the survival of his now 85-year-old...