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Jewish Cultural Arts Month concludes on Dec. 14 with a 2:30 p.m. community Chanukah celebration featuring David Broza. The month, hosted by the New Orleans Jewish Community Center, was sponsored by Cathy and Morris Bart. One event, the appearance of author Tova Mirvis on Dec. […]

On a crisp October weekend near Tuscaloosa, amid the hundreds of artisans and self-taught artists at Kentuck displaying pottery, paintings and letterpress prints was a New Orleanian with a wide range of glass mezuzahs and Chanukah menorahs, and a couple of Torah pointers. Judaica is […]

Jewish Children’s Regional Service will host “Latkes with a Twist,” a community-wide Chanukah celebration, on Dec. 11 at 8 p.m. at Bellocq at The Hotel Modern. The event will go on as planned though there was an Israel Bonds event featuring Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer […]

Amy Jill-Levine, a self-described “Yankee Jewish feminist who teaches in a predominantly Christian divinity school in the buckle of the Bible Belt,” will be the featured speaker at two scholar in residence weekends, in New Orleans and Greenwood, Miss. Levine is University Professor of New […]

Ramah Darom, the Conservative movement’s summer camp in north Georgia, announced the launch of a new Tikvah Program for summer 2015 and the addition of Audra Kaplan to its professional staff. The Tikvah Program will offer a four-week summer experience for children ages 12 to […]

by Lee J. Green The new Funukkah doll and book brings a fun, new way for kids to learn more about Chanukah and being good. But this brainchild came from two seriously talented entrepreneurial Jewish girls who live just south of Atlanta. Twelve-year-old Ellie and […]

Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, will speak in New Orleans on Dec. 11. The briefing will be an Israel Bonds event, at the Uptown Jewish Community Center. Doors will open at 6:15 p.m., with the program starting at 7 p.m. There is […]

At a time when some church denominations, such as the Presbyterian Church (USA), are considering or passing one-sided resolutions critical of Israel or, in the case of PCUSA, divesting from businesses they see as profiting from Israel’s “occupation,” Alabama’s Southern Baptists said that won’t fly […]

Eric Kimmel has written dozens of books for children, but one in particular is about a New Orleans mitzvah that the world still benefits from a century later. “A Horn for Louis” is based on the real-life interaction between jazz legend Louis Armstrong and a […]