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Lauren and Seth Herschthal, third-generation owners of Blue Star Camps in Hendersonville, N.C., may have 73 years of family summer camp experience to draw on, but even for them, the summer of coronavirus was unprecedented. Nevertheless, while around 80 percent of sleepaway camps nationally decided […]

On a typical Friday night in the summer, campers dressed in white follow a guitar-wielding song leader near Utica, singing their way to welcoming Shabbat. On Saturday evening near Clayton, Ga., hundreds fill the amphitheater for a Havdalah service that turns into a lengthy, high-energy […]

Sixteen years to the day after Hurricane Ivan hit the Gulf Coast of Alabama and Florida, Hurricane Sally slowly made her way ashore in Orange Beach on Sept. 16, bringing flooding and a lot of wind to the same areas. The storm, with sustained winds […]

The Greater New Orleans Section of the National Council of Jewish Women is part of a coalition of groups hosting a series of judicial town halls, to learn more about judicial candidates on the Nov. 3 ballot. The virtual town halls, “The Justice We Want […]

Rep. Elaine Luria, a Birmingham native who represents Virginia’s second district in Congress, was named to the Jerusalem Post’s 2020 list of the 50 Most Influential Jews in the world. Luria, who also has family in New Orleans, narrowly defeated incumbent Scott Taylor in 2018. […]

Erica Golden has been selected as the first executive director of the groundbreaking Sherry and Alan Leventhal Family Foundation Center for Interfaith Families at the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans. The Center, one of two new Centers of Excellence announced by the Federation in […]

Photo that connected Marysia Galbraith to her Jewish heritage. Taken around 1916 in Poland, her grandmother is seated on the left, with her parents, siblings, and nephew. By Richard Friedman Heritage. Holocaust. Homecoming. These three words course through the unusual story of Marysia Galbraith, a […]

A Louisiana State Senator who was criticized this summer for a Holocaust comparison in protesting against mask mandates has drawn attention for tweeting a mural that has been at the center of international antisemitism controversies. He later deleted the retweet. On Sept. 2, Rep. Danny […]

Daniel Shantz, The Entergy Chair in Clean Energy Engineering at Tulane University, will lead one of three U.S.-Israel Energy Centers. (Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano) Tulane University, Louisiana State University and the University of Louisiana will partner in leading one of three inaugural U.S.-Israel Energy Centers, […]