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Sam Bowers, who started a violent offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan that hit Jewish targets in Mississippi in 1967, as well as killing three Civil Rights workers in Philadelphia in 1964, died on Nov. 5 at Parchman Prison in Mississippi. Born in New Orleans, […]

Rabbi Foster Kawaler of Congregation Agudath Achim blows the shofar at the start of A Night to Honor Israel at Broadmoor Assembly of G-d in Shreveport on Oct. 30. Over 700 attended the event, which was a salute to Israel and the local Jewish community […]

Six communities in the area are planning Jewish film festivals for the coming months. The ninth annual New Orleans Jewish Film Festival is being presented by the Jewish Community Center of New Orleans and Shir Chadash, in association with Loyola University Interfaith and Black Studies […]

Over 500 Jewish youth received camp scholarship aid during the summer 2006 through the Jewish Children’s Regional Service. The New Orleans-based agency saw its camp assistance numbers double over the past year, with 216 Jewish youth from the Gulf Coast hurricane zone receiving assistance. Another […]

Have you ever done stand-up comedy, or sit-down comedy around the dining room table? If so, the Krewe Du Mishigas is looking for you. The Jewish marching Mardi Gras Krewe in New Orleans is holding a “Funniest Jew in the Deep South” competition, to be […]

By Karen Weinrib Deep South Jewish Voice As a young woman, Toby Klein never would have dreamed that one day she would be preparing for the Artexpo New York 2005 at the Jacob K. Javitz Center. Although in high school she made pen and ink […]

A historic marker will be dedicated this month at the site of Alabama’s first synagogue, at 559 Government Street in Mobile. On Sept. 17, the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation and the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life will host a 2 p.m. ceremony […]

It all started with less than $1,000. In January 1975, Danny Siegel visited Israel for the ninth or 10th time. On previous trips, he would bring money that others gave him, to be distributed as tzedakah, following a tradition that says those traveling to do […]

By Gail Naron Chalew NEW ORLEANS (JTA) — One year after “the storm,” as New Orleanians refer to Hurricane Katrina, Jewish communal leaders describe the health of the community with certain expected terms — loss, trauma, devastation and challenge. Unexpected is the word “blessed,” used […]