Laravel is a PHP framework for web application development and Josh is a pre-designed admin template built with Bootstrap 4, HTML5, and CSS3 that can be used as a starting point for building a Laravel-based web application. CRUD stands for Create, Read, Update, and Delete, which are the basic operations that can be performed on a database. A Laravel admin template with front-end and CRUD functionality would typically include pre-built pages for managing database records, such as adding new records, viewing and editing existing ones, and deleting them.