World & Nation
Two Touro College officials are charged with altering transcripts.
July 17, 2007
Alice Gross Newhouse, 79, a native New Yorker who became a well-known philanthropist and socialite in New Orleans, died Sunday at Touro Infirmary in that Louisiana city of complications after surgery.
March 31, 2004
Travel & Experiences
Oldest U.S. synagogue opens portal to a wider history
Aug. 2, 2009
This tiny Dutch Caribbean island 35 miles off the coast of Venezuela is the cradle of the Jewish faith in the New World, drawing Jews on pilgrimages from throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central and South America.
May 27, 1995
Five hundred years after the Jews were deported from Spain on the same tide that carried Columbus to the New World, America’s oldest synagogue has survived to hear a king and president welcome them back to the Iberian Peninsula.
May 17, 1992
Music
Singer Peggy Lee, who underwent open heart surgery two weeks ago, was operated on again because an infection developed within the incision, officials at Touro Infirmary said today.
Oct. 23, 1985
Peggy Lee, a double Grammy award winner for her 1969 song, “Is That All There Is,” was hospitalized with chest pains Sunday and was to undergo a double-bypass operation later today, Touro Infirmary officials said.
Oct. 8, 1985
Food
Growing meat in a lab sounds far-fetched, but some scientists see it as an inevitable evolution. Whether it’s practical remains to be seen.
May 22, 2006
FIPSE money goes to Congress’ pet projects, not postsecondary innovators as intended.
Sept. 25, 2005
Willie Tee, 63, a New Orleans keyboardist, singer and songwriter who melded pop, R&B;, jazz, funk and Indian street music into a signature blend, died Tuesday at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans, his daughter, Racquel Turbinton Bruno, said.
Sept. 12, 2007