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The Topolosky family will serve Beth Israel starting in August. Photo by Alan Smason By Alan Smason Deep South Jewish Voice Nearly two years after flooding related to Hurricane Katrina devastated its Lakeview property, Congregation Beth Israel announced plans to hire Uri Topolosky, 28, as […]

On Jan. 20, the National World War II Museum in New Orleans will host “Anne Frank: A History for Today,” an exhibit developed by the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and sponsored in North America by the Anne Frank Center USA. The exhibition, which will […]

By Lee Green Deep South Jewish Voice Two Jewish soccer players — one from Israel the other from Scotland — continue to push toward their goal of a successful career and athletic achievement in the United States. And senior Paul Sammeroff, along with freshman Ori […]

Sam Bowers, who started a violent offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan that hit Jewish targets in Mississippi in 1967, as well as killing three Civil Rights workers in Philadelphia in 1964, died on Nov. 5 at Parchman Prison in Mississippi. Born in New Orleans, […]

Rabbi Foster Kawaler of Congregation Agudath Achim blows the shofar at the start of A Night to Honor Israel at Broadmoor Assembly of G-d in Shreveport on Oct. 30. Over 700 attended the event, which was a salute to Israel and the local Jewish community […]

Six communities in the area are planning Jewish film festivals for the coming months. The ninth annual New Orleans Jewish Film Festival is being presented by the Jewish Community Center of New Orleans and Shir Chadash, in association with Loyola University Interfaith and Black Studies […]

Over 500 Jewish youth received camp scholarship aid during the summer 2006 through the Jewish Children’s Regional Service. The New Orleans-based agency saw its camp assistance numbers double over the past year, with 216 Jewish youth from the Gulf Coast hurricane zone receiving assistance. Another […]

Have you ever done stand-up comedy, or sit-down comedy around the dining room table? If so, the Krewe Du Mishigas is looking for you. The Jewish marching Mardi Gras Krewe in New Orleans is holding a “Funniest Jew in the Deep South” competition, to be […]

By Karen Weinrib Deep South Jewish Voice As a young woman, Toby Klein never would have dreamed that one day she would be preparing for the Artexpo New York 2005 at the Jacob K. Javitz Center. Although in high school she made pen and ink […]