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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 […]

An El Al cargo plane with supplies for the relief effort landed at Jacksonville Air Force Base in Arkansas at 6:30 p.m. yesterday. Representatives of the Little Rock Jewish community met the plane. “We saw the plane land,” said Lynn Greenberg, administrator of the Jewish […]

The AVI CHAI Foundation announced a one-year emergency grant program providing $3,000 per student to any Jewish day school in North America that enrolls Jewish children age four through twelfth grade who were evacuated from New Orleans or other communities as a result of Hurricane […]

The Union for Reform Judaism announced that Utica will be the site of Jacobs Ladder, a project that will enable the Union to effectively collect, organize and distribute thousands of dollars worth of goods and supplies flowing from Reform Jewish congregations nationwide to the victims […]

Congregation Beth Israel in Houston hosted a meeting of the New Orleans Jewish community last night. About 200 attended the meeting, which was the first chance many of them had to reconnect with friends. Barbara Raynor noted ironically that last night was supposed to have […]