(JTA) — New Orleans Mayor-elect LaToya Cantrell has walked back her support for a resolution she authored and supported that lends support to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The resolution to boycott investments with human rights violators, which passed the New Orleans City Council on Jan. 11 with all five members present voting in support, mentions neither…
New Orleans’s annual Fried Chicken Festival has apologized for using a Holocaust memorial as an employee break area and pledged not to use the space next year, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported Tuesday. The memorial, in the Big Easy’s Woldenberg Park, was covered by tables and ice chests holding beer. Festival organizers said in a…
Kosher-keeping freshmen heading to Tulane this fall will finally have an easy time gaining the freshman fifteen like their fellow (non-kosher-keeping) classmates: gourmet kosher food will be available at the university’s Hillel house. This August, a restaurant called Rimon –– which is hebrew for pomegranate –– will open at 912 Broadway Street. The chef, Daniel…
Deborah Cotton, the New Orleans culture writer known as Big Red Cotton, died on May 2 of complications related to the shooting that injured her in 2013. She was 52 years old. Cotton, who had African American and Jewish roots, spoke out over the years about the need to have compassion for the men who…
(JTA) — A bomb threat forced the evacuation of the New Orleans Jewish Community Center on Thursday morning. A phone call threatening a bomb attack was made to the JCC at 9:15 a.m., Katie Steiner of WWL-TV in New Orleans reported in a Twitter post. People were allowed back into the building about two hours…
I make the treyf groceries first. (In New Orleans, you “make” groceries; you don’t buy them.) Traffic inches along North Broad Street, everyone eager to start the weekend. The sun is a ripe satsuma hanging above the Mississippi, and the Superdome reflects the purple sky. I have several stops to make before I even start…
(JTA) — Omri Casspi, the first Israeli to play in the National Basketball Association, reportedly is being traded from the Sacramento Kings to the New Orleans Pelicans. The trade, which is set to be announced later on Monday, is part of a five-player trade which will see All-Star center DeMarcus Cousins heading with Casspi to New…
The Rex parade entered the city at the port, the procession stepping from a lavishly decorated boat that drifted down the Mississippi and docked at the foot of Canal Street. It was afternoon on Mardi Gras Day, 1872. Historian Ned Sublette describes the scene in his history of the city, “The Year Before the Flood:…
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