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Thirty years ago, the primary source of kosher products for numerous communities in the region began with a pizza party. Kosher Cajun New York Deli and Grocery in Metairie is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. When Joel Brown started a small kosher products supply […]

Numerous Jewish agencies participated in this year’s GiveNOLA 24-hour online fundraiser on May 1, with the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans once again pulling in big numbers. Overall, GiveNOLA Day raised $5.57 million, with the Ogden Museum once again raising the most, with $334,180. […]

Photo by Paul de Hueck, courtesy the Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc. by Lee J. GreenOne hundred years ago, Louis Bernstein of Lawrence, Mass., came into this world and would go on to become “one of the most prodigiously talented, success musicians in American history” as […]

David Meola, assistant professor of history at the University of South Alabama, holds the journal “Der Jude,” created by Dr. Gabriel Riesser and published in the 1830s to advance Jewish emancipation throughout the German states. Starting this fall, students at the University of South Alabama […]

As part of the festivities for this year’s Rabbi Perry Nussbaum Civil Justice Lecture, a Mississippi Freedom Trail marker was dedicated at Jackson’s Beth Israel Congregation on April 13. The marker, “Bombings in the Jewish Community,” describes three Klan bombings and a fourth attempted bombing […]

Governor Phil Bryant signes bill permitting the State of Mississippi to invest in Israel bonds. At the ceremony: Rabbi Jeff Kurtz-Lendner of Beth Israel in Jackson; State Rep. Hank Zuber; Treasurer Lynn Fitch; State Rep. Donnie Hill; Governor Phil Bryant; Executive Director, Israel Bonds Southeast […]

Photo courtesy Touro Synagogue Kevin Margolius has been named the new cantor of Touro Synagogue in New Orleans. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Margolius graduated with a degree in quantitative economics from Tufts University, then attended Hebrew College, where he received a Master’s in Jewish […]

The coming school year will be one of change for Jewish Community Day School in Metairie. In addition to this fall’s addition of a sixth grade for the first time since before Katrina, and planning for an early childhood program that will open in August […]

With Alan Franco behind him, Macy Hart reads the Tzedakah Award that was presented to the Goldring Family Foundation “Create a Jewish Legacy,” the projected image said at the Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana’s Annual Event on March 11 at the Westin Canal Place in […]