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The New Orleans-based Jewish Children’s Regional Service has reopened, at the office of the Jewish Herald-Voice in Houston. JCRS is a unique social service agency that assists Jewish children in the states that were part of B’nai B’rith District 7 — from Alabama to Tennessee. […]

On Sept. 29, there will be a benefit concert in New York City to support Hurricane Katrina relief efforts at the Henry S. Jacobs Camp in Utica, Miss. The camp housed evacuees following the storm, and now houses teams of volunteers working on a wide […]

Assuming the buildings are available, there will be High Holy Day services in New Orleans this year. The announcement was made tonight at a community meeting of the Jewish Federation of Baton Rouge, which included members of the New Orleans Jewish community who are now […]

Feeling that a “fraud” had taken place in his courtroom, Neshoba County Circuit Court Judge Marcus Gordon ordered Edgar Ray Killen, convicted this summer of manslaughter in the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss., back to jail. Gordon had released Killen […]

There will be an open meeting for the Jewish communities of Baton Rouge and New Orleans on Sept. 18 at 6:30 p.m. at the LSU Faculty Club, on the corner of Highland Road and Raphael Semmes. Eric Stillman, executive director of the Jewish Federation of […]

Isaac Leider, of the New York ZAKA Rescue and Recovery Organization, waded through waist-deep toxic floodwaters yesterday with six Torah scrolls from Congregation Beth Israel, an Orthodox synagogue in New Orleans. A few of the Torah scrolls are believed to be more than 250 years […]

List of Jewish New Orleans evacuees on Internet The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans is continuing to compile a list of New Orleans Jews and their current locations. The Federation’s Web site, www.jewishnola.com, has lists in both alphabetical form and by relocation community. OU […]

Leadership from the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans and the Jewish Federation of Baton Rouge were escorted into New Orleans on Saturday for an inspection of several Jewish institutions, and to retrieve Torahs from places where they were kept during the storm. The group […]

ZAKA, which is better known as the group that retrieves bodies after terror attacks in Israel, is on the ground in New Orleans. According to Isaac Lieder, a ZAKA member now in Baton Rouge, the organization has already retrieved two bodies from New Orleans, and […]