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October 20, 2020
By Richard Friedman Family issues often are complicated. They can be fraught with misunderstanding, hurt, resentment, power shifts and changing attitudes over time. All of this becomes particularly important when the family is the American Jewish community and the Jews of Israel — once perceived […]
October 19, 2020
By Richard Friedman “Who Will Write Our History?” That’s the title of a remarkable documentary, based on a book by the same name, that tells the story of a group of Jews who banded together in the Warsaw Ghetto in the early 1940s to record […]
October 16, 2020
by Richard Friedman The Jewish story in America, from Colonial Times to today, is a remarkable saga. Jews, relatively few in number compared to the population as a whole, have had a disproportionate impact on nearly every facet of American life. An important component of this […]
October 9, 2020
Seeing snow in Montgomery is like finding a Jewish girl playing with her pet pig — unusual, but not unprecedented. What is unprecedented is the path that Dani Loeb, who grew up on a farm near Montgomery, is forging as the first Alabamian to make […]
October 7, 2020
By Marc Rice Special to Southern Jewish Life Along with the prayer, reflection and repentance that traditionally mark the Jewish High Holidays, innovation has now become an imperative. With online services the norm during this time of pandemic, many wondered how to overcome the resulting […]
October 5, 2020
With large face-to-face gatherings impossible and masking in public part of the current landscape, Hadassah New Orleans is adapting to the times with its annual fundraiser. Unable to have an in-person event, the chapter instead is throwing a Virtual Mask-erade, and everyone is invited to […]
October 2, 2020
Thanks to Covid, things are different for this year’s Cathy and Morris Bart Cultural Arts Series at the Uptown Jewish Community Center in New Orleans. The series will include four socially-distant movie screenings, each of which will have three showings. There will also be three […]
October 1, 2020
Jewish Family Service of Greater New Orleans has set up an online page detailing relief availability for those in Lake Charles and Alexandria who were affected by Hurricane Laura. Hurricane Laura came ashore near Cameron around 2 a.m. on Aug. 27, with winds of about […]
October 1, 2020
The Goldring Family Foundation Center for Jewish-Multicultural Affairs, one of two new “Centers of Excellence” at the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans, officially launched on Oct.1. The Center, which fosters relations between the local Jewish community and the local African-American, Latin-American, and Multi-Faith communities […]