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In 1966, the New Orleans Section of the National Council of Jewish Women started presenting the Hannah G. Solomon Award each year to “a community leader who exemplifies the qualities of Hannah G. Solomon, founder of NCJW.” That was the same year that this year’s […]

Richard Williams The Jewish Federation of Arkansas will recognize its volunteers at the 13th annual Jane B. Mendel Tikkun Olam Awards ceremony, Sept. 25 at 5:30 p.m. at the Little Rock Marriott Downtown. Richard Williams will be the Grand Honoree at the “Celebrating Community” event. […]

With almost two centuries of history, Touro Synagogue in New Orleans has a lot of artifacts, and in the coming months will open the Touro Synagogue Museum. The museum will be in a room near the chapel. A museum committee is being chaired by Adrien […]

Leading Israeli writer and filmmaker Etgar Keret will be the first speaker in this year’s Cathy and Morris Bart Jewish Cultural Arts Series at the Uptown Jewish Community Center in New Orleans. Considered “the voice of young Israel,” Keret will speak about his best-selling book, […]

Inge Auerbacher, the only child survivor from the State of Wuerttemberg who was deported to the concentration camps, will speak at the University of North Alabama in Florence as part of the Distinguished Events series. Auerbacher was 3 years old during Kristallnacht and spent three […]

Skip Bertman at the dedication of Skip Bertman Field in 2013 In late May, two honors were announced for legendary Louisiana State University baseball coach Skip Bertman — a statue on campus and an endowed scholarship fund in his name. The Skip Bertman Endowed Scholarship […]

Gene Jerman, B’nai Israel Rabbi Jordan Goldson, William Daroff, Brian Seymour, Rachel Hausmann, Deborah Sternberg, Anna Blumenfeld Herman, Lynn Weill, Donna Sternberg, New Orleans Jewish Family Service Executive Director Roselle M. Ungar and Hans Sternberg at the presentation of the first relief check from the […]

By Lee J. Green By making the New Orleans Pelicans’ 12-man roster to start the 2016-17 NBA season on Oct. 26, Israeli basketball all-star Shawn Dawson would fulfill a lifelong dream of his and his Tuscaloosa-native, Israel-basketball-legend father, Joe. Dawson, who had led Maccabi Rishon […]

A Catholic school educator from Lake Charles joined colleagues from across the country for an educational expedition to Israel in July. Middle and high school educators from 12 states participated in the Anti-Defamation League’s nationally acclaimed Bearing Witness Advanced program, which aims to provide an […]