2018

The New Orleans City Council meets on Jan. 11. Photo courtesy Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans. At the start of the Jan. 11 New Orleans City Council meeting, the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans was honored with “a special proclamation for their tremendous […]

What began as a school project in rural Mississippi to collect 1.5 million pennies to symbolize the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered in the Holocaust has evolved into plans for a large memorial. “The Unknown Child” exhibit at the Desoto County Museum in Hernando, about […]

Photo of Martin Wishnatsky from his Amazon author page The search for Roy Moore’s “attorney who is a Jew” is over, though depending on one’s perspective, it came up empty-handed — as he accepted Jesus while in his 30s and calls himself a “Messianic Jew.” […]

Richard Jaffe (SJL file photo) Though some national publications have referred to Birmingham attorney Richard Jaffe as Roy Moore’s Jewish lawyer, he has said that it isn’t so, and that he is close friends with Doug Jones, the Democrat who opposed Moore in the Dec. […]

Nathaniel Rich didn’t intend to write a novel set in New Orleans, but “King Zeno” insisted on being told. Writing the novel “became inescapable” after moving to the city in 2010, Rich said. Set in 1918, the historical crime novel features three individuals from different […]