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After about six weeks, the Jacobs Ladder relief project in Utica, Miss., has closed up shop. The project was housed in a warehouse in Utica and was the idea of Jonathan Cohen, director of the Union of Reform Judaism’s Henry S. Jacobs Camp. Congregations across […]

Rabbi Yisroel Shiff, who has led Beth Israel in New Orleans for four years, has announced his resignation effective Nov. 1, to take a teaching position in New Jersey. Since the hurricane, he has been living in Memphis. Beth Israel, located in Lakeview, was flooded […]

The award-winning documentary “Shalom Y’all,” about a third-generation Southern Jew from New Orleans in search of his roots, is being made available by the filmmaker to be used in fundraisers for Hurricane Katrina relief. Brian Bain left for Dallas before the storm hit. A month […]

With its destroyed synagogue on the front pages of High Holy Day issues of Jewish newspapers nationwide, members of New Orleans’ Beth Israel assembled for an emotional Yom Kippur service at the Comfort Inn in Kenner. Helping comfort the 45 in attendance was the return […]

The show must go on, and the fifth annual installment of Jewish Cinema South is gearing up for Jewish film festivals in four cities in early November. There are two films that will be shown in three of the four cities. The list of screenings […]

November will mark the 18th anniversary of the Jay Mosow Memorial Delta Jewish Golf Open, a fundraiser and “family reunion” for the Jewish communities in the Mississippi Delta. Sponsored by members of the Hebrew Union Congregation in Greenville, the tournament has raised over $65,000 for […]

The Jewish Community Center in Uptown New Orleans will open its fitness center on Oct. 20. The rest of the building is slated to open by Jan. 3. Hours for the fitness center, which was not damaged, are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 7 […]

Regular Shabbat services are starting up again at congregations in Metairie. Shir Chadash, which also had Rosh Hashanah services, began Shabbat services on Oct. 7. Services are 6:15 p.m. Fridays and 9:45 a.m. Saturdays. Yom Kippur services will be at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday and 10 […]

With the words “why is this year different from all other years” and a Rosh Hashanah niggun, services began at newly-dry Shir Chadash in New Orleans on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. Like the only other High Holy Day service in New Orleans that […]