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The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in New Orleans will celebrate its grand opening at its first anniversary. The museum opened to the public last May, but due to the ongoing pandemic, they decided to postpone a regional dedication. The ceremony was originally scheduled […]

By Richard Friedman As a result of growing antisemitism and other forms of hatred, the FBI has launched an aggressive campaign urging both victims and witnesses to such events to report such incidents. One of the venues selected by the FBI to advertise its message […]

By Lee J. Green Christina Harrison wanted to bring a bite of the Big Apple — and deli-style sandwiches — to the South. That subway car arrives in the station with her dream realized as I Love Tina and Gina’s opens on April 16 at […]

The NCJW New Orleans Centennial streetcar in 1997 By Barbara Kaplinsky and SJL staff Child advocacy and assisting students, greeting and helping immigrants, advocating for women’s issues and social justice, promoting volunteerism and voting, and simply having fun. That’s all in 45,655 days’ work for […]

The Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana announced that it has surpassed $100 million in total assets, according to preliminary 2021 year-end numbers that are still subject to audit. Executive Director Bobby Garon and Board President Morton Katz made the announcement on March 14, saying that […]

Every sports league names Most Valuable Players, and three MVPs will be honored at the Jewish Roots of Sports gala held by Jewish Children’s Regional Service. At the March 27 gala, Gayle Baer, Alan Krilov and Mark Sands will be honored for their roles with […]

By Richard Friedman Montgomery’s Suzanne La Rosa loves a good story. So it’s only fitting that her life is a story unto itself. After all, it’s not often that you meet an Italian Catholic woman, who grew up in a Jewish neighborhood in New York […]

Greg Garrison and Elie Wiesel during Wiesel’s last visit to Birmingham in 2007.  By Richard Friedman  When AL.com reporter Greg Garrison was growing up in rural Missouri in the 1970s, he never could have imagined how an unlikely friendship with an elderly Holocaust survivor in St. Louis would […]

The National Council of Jewish Women’s Greater New Orleans Section is celebrating its 125th anniversary by reviving a piece of its history. “Looking Back and Leading Forward with a Salute to Angel Ball” will be on April 9 at the Higgins Hotel. A patron’s party […]