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November 20, 2020
Andy Adelman at Casablanca (SJL file) Restaurant industry struggles during the coronavirus pandemic struck again with the announced closing of Casablanca in Metairie. According to owner Andy Adelman, who made the online announcement on Nov. 18, Hurricane Zeta provided the final blow. “These past nine […]
November 19, 2020
Ina Davis and Bradley Bain present a check to New Orleans East Hospital CEO Takeisha Davis and Chief Medical Officer Candace Robinson. On Nov. 17, the Goldring Family Foundation Center for Jewish-Multicultural Affairs at the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans announced a groundbreaking partnership […]
November 19, 2020
Levite Jewish Community Center Executive Director Samantha Dubrinsky has announced her resignation, effective at the end of the year, to become CEO of the Jewish Community Center in Springfield, Mass. Dubrinsky, 31, was appointed LJCC executive director a year ago after serving 12 months as […]
November 18, 2020
By Gidon Ben-Zvi (HonestReporting.com) — A new video on Vox’s popular YouTube channel, titled “The 126-year fight to change Mississippi’s Confederate flag,” features a disturbing image that completely diverts attention away from the ongoing movement pursuing racial equality in the United States. The otherwise well-produced […]
November 17, 2020
Student actors Allyn Hackman, left, and Cameron Mayers. (Photos by J. Hun-En Joswick) By Richard Friedman It was a trip Cameron Mayers had to make, driving 90 miles and 65 years back into history. Mayers, an 18-year-old Mississippi State University freshman, would play Emmett Till in […]
November 11, 2020
Self-described “local” paper has almost no local reporting, wild circulation numbers — but plenty of ads from politicians and others thinking they are reaching the local Jewish community Editor’s Note: This piece won the national Boris Smolar Award for Excellence in Enterprise or Investigative Reporting, […]
November 9, 2020
By Richard Friedman Excited by the election of Kamala Harris (pictured above) as the first woman in American history to attain national office in the executive branch, Israeli and American participants in a Nov. 8 online program sponsored by Hadassah New Orleans were inspired as […]
November 8, 2020
By Richard Friedman Birmingham, New Jersey, the National Football League and a Zoom call reconnecting friends after 70 years. These are just some of the elements in a story marked by humility, prosperity and gratitude. It’s the story of the Wilf family and how in […]
November 4, 2020
Home of Samuel Wiener in Shreveport. Photo courtesy Rational Middle Media. After a red-carpet premiere was delayed twice due to Covid-19, “Unexpected Modernism” will have its world debut online on Nov. 12, and filmmaker Gregory Kallenberg is excited at the opportunity to debut the film […]