2020

Award-winning chef Alon Shaya and his Pomegranate Hospitality will be opening a new restaurant next year, as the Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences opens in New Orleans. The unnamed restaurant will offer “a fresh perspective on a classic Louisiana dining experience in a festive […]

By Richard Friedman  Political data is valuable, but accurate predictions are tough, especially when the target keeps moving. This came through clearly in an Oct. 19 online program hosted by the New Orleans Jewish Community Center. It featured noted Jewish political scientist Steven Windmueller, who walked his […]

By Richard Friedman Family issues often are complicated. They can be fraught with misunderstanding, hurt, resentment, power shifts and changing attitudes over time. All of this becomes particularly important when the family is the American Jewish community and the Jews of Israel — once perceived […]

By Richard Friedman  “Who Will Write Our History?” That’s the title of a remarkable documentary, based on a book by the same name, that tells the story of a group of Jews who banded together in the Warsaw Ghetto in the early 1940s to record […]

by Richard Friedman The Jewish story in America, from Colonial Times to today, is a remarkable saga. Jews, relatively few in number compared to the population as a whole, have had a disproportionate impact on nearly every facet of American life. An important component of this […]

Seeing snow in Montgomery is like finding a Jewish girl playing with her pet pig — unusual, but not unprecedented. What is unprecedented is the path that Dani Loeb, who grew up on a farm near Montgomery, is forging as the first Alabamian to make […]

By Marc Rice Special to Southern Jewish Life Along with the prayer, reflection and repentance that traditionally mark the Jewish High Holidays, innovation has now become an imperative. With online services the norm during this time of pandemic, many wondered how to overcome the resulting […]

With large face-to-face gatherings impossible and masking in public part of the current landscape, Hadassah New Orleans is adapting to the times with its annual fundraiser. Unable to have an in-person event, the chapter instead is throwing a Virtual Mask-erade, and everyone is invited to […]