Crescent City Jewish News

4 weeks ago | crescentcityjewishnews.com | Itamar Marcus |Philissa Cramer

By ITAMAR MARCUSThis week’s International Conference for Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem takes place 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz. After the defeat of Nazism in 1945, Jews hoped that Nazi antisemitism would vanish forever. But as Jew-hatred proliferates worldwide in 2025, there is one antisemitic ideology that closely resembles that of the Nazis – and that is the antisemitism of the Palestinian Authority. What was the Jewish problem for the Nazis?

1 month ago | crescentcityjewishnews.com | Alan Smason

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“)The Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea” is the basis for Once Upon a Mattress, the 1959 musical written by Mary Rodgers, the daughter of Richard Rodgers that launched the Broadway career of Carol Burnett as Princess Winifred – “Fred” for short – the Wobegone. A 1996 production starring Jewish actress Sarah Jessica Parker established her as a bankable star prior to her being cast in HBO’s “Sex and the City” series.

1 month ago | crescentcityjewishnews.com | Philissa Cramer

(JNS.org) –  The Israel Defense Forces announced on Sunday that it has expanded military operations in both northern and southern Gaza, including the encirclement of Tel al-Sultan in Rafah and an offensive in Beit Hanun. “IDF forces, led by Southern Command, have been operating in recent days across the Gaza Strip,” the military stated on Sunday afternoon.

1 month ago | crescentcityjewishnews.com | Alan Smason |Philissa Cramer

By ALAN SMASON, Exclusive to the CCJNStanley and Ellen Kessler, longtime leaders of local philanthropy and promoters for the State of Israel within and without the Jewish community of New Orleans, were given the highest honor that can be bestowed upon them by Jewish Family Service (JFS) on Thursday, March 20 at their annual gala. “Take flight with JFS” was the aviation theme for the gala, referencing the venue where the event was held, the New Orleans Lakefront Airport.

1 month ago | crescentcityjewishnews.com | Ben Cohen |Philissa Cramer

By BEN COHEN(JNS.org) – Jews have long been accustomed to being history’s double victims. We are victims of its most murderous currents and the victims of subsequent attempts to revise, play down or even outright deny these episodes of bloodshed, usually emanating from the perpetrators themselves or their fellow travelers. The most glaring example of this trend is Holocaust denial. And the one thing we have learned from dealing with the deniers is that they are impervious to fact and reason.