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Courtesy @JewishChas via Twitter In an extraordinary display of unity, a broad cross-section of American Jewish organizations have joined to declare this coming Shabbat, beginning the evening of June 26 and ending the evening of June 27, to be a “Shabbat of solidarity with the […]

Rabbi Kerendian in front of Torah Academy in the summer of 2014, a month before the new building opened. Rabbi Michoel Kerendian, who became the executive director of Torah Academy in Metairie in October 2013, will leave the school effective July 31. In an email […]

The first day of camp can be hectic, but for Ramah Darom, the Conservative movement’s summer camp in north Georgia, it was even more so this year. On the first day of camp, June 9, about 150 campers arrived at the Atlanta airport. While they […]

Julie Schwartz leads attendees to a tri-region Hadassah conference in New Orleans on a Jewish heritage tour of the city in April. In a reader survey last year, Travel + Leisure Magazine rated New Orleans one of the world’s top 10 cities to visit. Not […]

Update: As of the morning of June 1, America’s Torah is postponing its Alabama part of the trip and will likely be in the state in July. We will update as we get more information. “America’s Torah” will be rolling through the Florida panhandle and […]

While Jews around the world have been watching the effect of flooding on the Jewish community of Houston, for the Jewish community of New Orleans the images hit home in a more direct way. In August 2005, the levees around New Orleans failed following Hurricane […]

Chandra Lester, Kathe Hambrick-Jackson and Darryl Gissel were in the Louisiana delegation to the first Rosenwald Schools conference, held in Tuskegee in 2012 (SJL file). “Rosenwald,” a new documentary by award-winning filmmaker Aviva Kempner, will have its premiere in New York in August, but there […]

Wherever Jews have gone, Jewish cooking has become infused with local influences. In Louisiana, where the predominant ingredients are shellfish and pork, that can be a daunting challenge. Mildred Covert, who died on May 10 at the age of 88, showed it was not an […]

The New Orleans Jewish community tripled its participation in this year’s GiveNOLA Day, paced by a stunning performance by the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans. The second annual GiveNOLA Day was held on May 5, a 24-hour online fundraiser involving about 550 non-profits in […]