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Candlelighting Times 5 Jewish New Orleans 6 Jewish Day Schools 7 Listings 9 Sidney Smith 22 Holidays 24 Nola Entertainment 28 Katrina Recovery 30 Diaspora! 35 Mardi Gras 39 Crescent City Jewish News Editorial & Advertising Offices 3810 Nashville Avenue New Orleans, LA 70125 Editorial Contact: [email protected] Advertising Contact: [email protected]

Source 3 INTRODUCTION ™ 5776 MARKS XTHE SPOT his year’s cover of SOURCE - of more Americans their lives over longer Having won two first place awards from designed by local graphic artist periods of time. But in terms of recovery the Press Club Of New Orleans over the Shayna T. Blum - reflects the ten- costs, insurance payments and especially the past two years, we are consistently the only year anniversary of the costliest damage to the collective psyche of the city, award-winning Jewish publication in the natural disaster in United States history and the breaches of the levee system and flooding entire region. (This year we were cited with a oneT that those of us who lived through, will associated with that storm transformed our third place finish for features writing as well.) never forget – Hurricane Katrina. city into a very different post-Katrina New Clearly, the members of the nine national The design intentionally includes the Orleans. press clubs whose members voted for us infamous “FEMA x-code” across a doorway, For the past four years the Crescent City recognized SOURCE as a quality publication which responders used to document Jewish News has continued its mission to and we are grateful to all who acknowledge important information for others on site and inform and support the Jewish community of our continued commitment and dedication determine a litany of hazards for those who Greater New Orleans wherever dispersed. We to the New Orleans Jewish community. We might follow. But the “X” also is evocative of have done so without support from any other pledge never to waver from our duties and our the Roman letter for the number 10, which institution and have operated completely fervent wish is to always be a special part of is why we chose it to adorn our cover. It is independent of any community organization this special community, a community that has emblematic of the ten years of recovery we or other periodical. We are thankful for the proven to be resolute and strong in the face of have experienced since the storm’s passage support of our advertisers and community seemingly insurmountable challenges. and the flooding that followed. members who recognize the important work Katrina killed a significant 1,883 souls. we have done and are doing. Your support of Alan Smason, Editor There were droughts that cost thousands our advertisers is deeply appreciated. Arlene S. Wieder, Advertising Director

About the cover designer… Our cover was created by Shayna T. Blum, an assistant professor of Graphic Design at Xavier University of Louisiana and the principal of Shayna T. Blum Visual Communication Laboratory. Ms. Blum received a master’s degree of Fine Art in Design and Technology at the San Francisco Art Institute following a Fine Art in Painting bachelor’s degree at Lyme Academy College of Fine Art and post baccalaureate work at the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston. She has held previous academic positions in New Jersey at Monmouth University and Union County College and also taught at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. From 2012-2014 she was the Lecturer of Visual Communication at Dar Al Hekma University in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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A Historical Account of the New Orleans Jewish Community . InL modernocation. parlance that’s L theocation. reason Jean-Baptiste L ocationLe Moyne Sieur de Bienville, chose the site in 1718 to found what is today the city of New Orleans. Bienville picked the location because it was the highest and driest land in the area and, by doing so, ignored his chief engineer’s advice. The area was known to be predisposed to periodic flooding due to frequent and heavy rainfalls and sometimes major storms. Less than four years after Bienville founded the city, the first recorded hurricane struck the city and significantly crippled the area because of slow water drainage. These issues still plague and torment the local residents since its founding nearly 300 years ago. As the port grew under French but at a very slow pace. It rule and a few years after the city took several decades before celebrated its diamond jubilee, the Jewish community finally recorded documentation listed chartered its first synagogue, six Jewish residents dwelling in called Congregation Gates of the French colony. Although the Mercy. The credit behind the French “Le Code Noir” (or “black establishment of this institution code”) forbade Jewish residents, is given to a New York merchant, it was never enforced. The who had moved to New Orleans few secular Jewish traders and named Jacob Solis. merchants were allowed to live Solis was appalled by the lack in the colony and they developed of “Jewishness” in the city. More prosperous businesses. specifically, he was frustrated Unfortunately, once there was no available matzoh Hurricane Katrina created new neighbors on West Esplanade Avenue in France signed the Treaty of supply during the period of Metaire and a most unusual partnership between Reform Congregation Fontainebleau with Spain Passover. Another historical Gates of Prayer and Orthodox Congregation Beth Israel. (Photos by Alan Smason) in 1762, life changed for the account suggested Solis was also Jewish residents living in the irritated because there was no Louisiana colony. Within two place to worship in New Orleans years of the signing, the local for the Jewish High Holidays. Spanish government banished Regardless of his motivation, all Jews from living in the colony sources concur that Jacob Solis and the government confiscated spearheaded the movement that all Jewish assets. Monetary successfully established the Gates acquisition seemed to be the of Mercy, which was chartered primary motivation, rather than in 1828. anti-Semitism. By enforcing the Most of the earliest Jewish code, the local government was families in New Orleans able to expropriate acquisitions were interfaith unions. The that were held by the wealthy predominantly Jewish males Jewish residents. The first notable found themselves lacking affluent Jewish family was the sufficient numbers of Jewish Monsantos. Because they were ladies. Traditional Jewish laws Jewish, they were expelled in were largely ignored in order 1769 and all their possessions that their spouses and progeny were confiscated. The family fled would gain acceptance and be to Pensacola, which at the time considered part of an extended services together and be buried in making the most impact on the was under British rule. Within Jewish community. These early the Jewish cemetery. These early New Orleans community in the one year the family was allowed compromises seemed a necessity families were culturally Jewish, Nineteenth century. Commonly to return, however their property for the survival of the first but not very religious. referred to as the first significant was never returned to them. New Orleans Jewish families. Judah Touro, who fought with Jewish philanthropist in the After the expulsion, the return Acceptance was crucial for these Andrew Jackson at the Battle of United States, Touro purchased of Jewish citizens continued, families so they could attend New Orleans, is credited with an Episcopal church and paid to

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remodel and convert the church into a synagogue. A few years later he established Touro Infirmary, a charity hospital supported by the local Hebrew Benevolent Association. When Touro died in 1854, his will included money to numerous New Orleans causes and other Jewish institutions around the country. Congregation Gates of Prayer organized in 1850 as Shaarei Tefilah. The first members of this congregation were Jews that were Dedicated in 2012, the new Congregation Beth Israel. escaping from the European (Photo by Alan Smason) unrest. The members of Gates of Prayer began as a traditionally the Rabbinic director of Lifelong New Orleans, emerged from a programs and activities for the Orthodox synagogue. As the Learning at the synagogue. splinter group of the Orthodox community. The Btesh Family congregation grew in size, strict Between the last quarter Congregation Chevra Thilim Chabad Center, run by Rabbi observance was emphasized of the 19th and the beginning that wanted mixed sitting. The Mendel Rivkin, and the Rohr less. By 1905, the Gates of of the 20th centuries many controversial concept at that time Chabad Jewish Student Center at Prayer congregation formally small and unpretentious prayer became a nationally-watched Tulane University, administered acknowledged their alliance with societies were formed from the court case of Katz vs. Singerman. by Rabbi Yochanan Rivkin, the Reform movement. Presently, newly-arrived Eastern European The case eventually was heard are located next door to one Congregation Gates of Prayer immigrants. Many of these Jews by the Louisiana Supreme another on Freret Street in the has the distinction of being that settled in New Orleans were Court, which ruled in favor of University section. The Gerson the only Reform congregation escaping persecution and were mixed seating for the Orthodox Katz Chabad Center was built in located in Metairie. Its spiritual largely of Ashkenazic background. congregation. Chevra Thilim 1990 and dedicated to serve the leader is Rabbi Robert Loewy Congregation Beth Israel, fell victim to the Jewish flight needs of the Jewish community and the recently-hired assistant founded in 1904 emerged from of the 1970s out of Orleans of Metairie. Its spiritual leader Rabbi is Alexis Pinsky. some of these early groups. It was Parish. As the congregation is Rabbi Yossie Nemes and he is In 1870 Temple Sinai was located at its original Carondelet grew older, it found its members joined by his son-in-law Rabbi founded and was the first Street location near the heavily- were becoming less observant. Mendel Ceitlin. congregation to declare their Jewish corridor along Dryades Eventually, the Orthodox In 1996 the Northshore Reform affiliation. It has Street, and at one time was the synagogue affiliated with the Jewish Congregation (NJC) the largest congregational largest Orthodox congregation Conservative movement. More was chartered with 40 original membership of any Jewish in the South. The congregation than 40 years after the initial members from the Mandeville institution in the state of moved to a new location in split, the two congregations area. In less than ten years they Louisiana. Originally situated Lakeview in 1970, which merged in 1999 and formed had purchased a 10,000 square in what is today the Central was destroyed by floodwaters Shir Chadash Conservative foot building and had grown to Business District, Temple Sinai associated with Hurricane Katrina Congregation in Metairie. Rabbi become a congregation of almost relocated to its current campus in 2005. Congregation Beth Israel Ethan Linden is the current 100 family units. They currently in the University section in 1926 relocated in 2012 next to Gates of spiritual leader. offer weekly lay-led services and and is led by Rabbi Ed Paul Prayer in Metairie, where it met The last Jewish movement to have renewed the contract of Cohn, who recently announced in a rear chapel room for several arrive in the Greater New Orleans Rabbi Deborah Zecher to lead his retirement for next year. years. Rabbi Gabriel Greenberg area was Chabad-Lubavitch of the congregation during the The current Touro Synagogue is the current rabbi for the newest Louisiana. Dispatched by the High Holidays and to continue was formed in 1881. This house of worship in the area. venerated Rabbi Menachem M. to perform monthly services congregation was the result of a Congregation Anshe Sfard Schneerson of blessed memory, over the course of the next merger between the earliest New was erected in 1925 at its the first shluchim (emissaries), year. Additionally, NJC offers Orleans synagogues, Gates of present Carondelet Street Rabbi Zelig and Bluma Rivkin, a religious school and follows Mercy and Dispersed of Judah. location. Anshe Sfard is now arrived in 1975. The mission of the Union of Reform Judaism’s Its unique domed sanctuary on the only non-Chabad Orthodox Chabad is to bring the spiritual “Chai” curriculum. St. Charles Avenue was built institution still located in Orleans and material needs to different After 200 years of significant by famed architect Emile Weil Parish Its spiritual leader is communities and hopefully philanthropic and civic in 1909 and the congregation is Rabbi David Polsky. preserve a future Jewish life. contributions, the local Jewish currently led by the first woman The Conservative movement Today the movement has community remains committed senior rabbi of a major New did not appear in the community grown to eight shluchim couples, to our beloved city as we Orleans synagogue, Rabbi Alexis until the middle of the 20th many of whom are the Rivkins’ welcome 5776. Berk. This past summer Touro century. Congregation Tikvat own offspring and their spouses. added Rabbi Todd Silverman as Shalom, initially the first The organization provides many Conservative Congregation of educational, social and religious Source 7 ™ Jewish Day Schools After the Storm: Rebuilding the Jewish Day Schools of New Orleans moved into a 5.7 million dollar hen Hurricane structure. Although many board Katrina struck a members are associated with the decade ago, New Chabad Lubavitch movement, Orleans had the school is open and not two viable options for parents affiliated with any one group or whoW wanted their children to Jewish denomination. However, attend a . Both it is agreed that individuals that the New Orleans Jewish Day call themselves “Orthodox” School (now renamed the Jewish would probably feel the more Community Day School or comfortable in this school’s JCDS head of school, Sharon Pollin, left and exterior of Torah Academy. JCDS) and Torah Academy were environment. negatively affected by the storm. JCDS has struggled, making While both have made positive many difficult decisions to try school is a member of Ravsak, (science, technology, engineering and steady improvements with to gain the pre-Katrina success which assists in helping Jewish and math), while the Jewish steady increases in enrollment, it had enjoyed. Aside from its day schools achieve academic Community Day School uses neither school has yet to obtain name change, the pre-school and excellence with a strong ethical STEAM, which adds the arts the numbers they enjoyed in upper grades were eliminated. foundation. to its programs. Additionally, the pre-Katrina years. There With the hiring of the newest Both schools offer a each school offers small class were more than 100 students head of school, Sharon Pollin, curriculum that is based on sizes, dedicated faculty, and combined attending both and under her expert guidance, Common Core. However, Torah the development of effective schools. the school sees itself moving in Academy complements it with academic, social and spiritual Last year Torah Academy a more successful direction. The a STEM program component growth.

As long as streetcars

roll along St. Charles Avenue,

Touro will be a part

of New Orleans.

www.touro.com 1401 Foucher Street | New Orleans | Louisiana 70115 (504) 897-7011

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*CAMP JUDAEA (R) ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE AVODAH: THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS- 48 Camp Judaea Ln. (South-Central Region) NEW ORLEANS Hendersonville, NC 28792 3747 West Esplanade Avenue 7733 Maple Street Website: www.campjudaea.org Metairie, LA 70002 New Orleans, LA 70118 828-685-8841 Phone: 504-780-5602 Phone: 504-861-1067 Fax: 504-780-5640 Email: [email protected] *HENRY S. JACOBS CAMP (R) Website: http://neworleans.adl.org Website: www.avodah.net/new-orleans PO Box 327/3863 Morrison Rd. Allison Padilla-Goodman, Director New Orleans Director: Dani Levine Utica, MS 39175 Email: [email protected] AVODAH strengthens the Jewish Community’s Website: www.jacobs.urjcamps.org Created over fifty years ago, the South Central fight against the causes and Effects of poverty Phone: 601-885-6042 office of the ADL is dedicated to combating in the United States, by engaging participants in anti-Semitism and all forms of hatred and bigotry. service and community building that inspire them COMMUNITY RESOURCE The organization investigates, exposes extremism, to become lifelong leaders for social change whose AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN and advocates for civil rights and religious freedom. work for justice is rooted in and nourished by DAVID ADOM (SE REGION) Jewish values. 3300 PGA Blvd., Suite 970 ARZA Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 633 Third Ave., 7th Floor CHABAD JEWISH CENTER Phone: 561-835-0510 New York, NY 10017 4141 West Esplanade Avenue Fax: 561-835-9410 Phone: 212-650-4280 Metairie, LA 70002 Tammy Karu, Director Fax: 212-650-4289 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.jewishlouisiana.com Website: www.afmda.org Rabbi Joshua Weinberg, President Phone: 504-454-2910 ARZA is the largest supporter of the Israel Drectorsirs: Rabbi Yossie & Chanie Nemes American Friends of Magen David Adom Education Directors: Mendel & Chaya Mushka Ceitlin (AFMDA) supports Israel’s ambulance, Movement for Reform, Progressive Judaism (IMPJ) blood-services, and disaster-relief organization. and the Israel Religious Action Center The Chabad Jewish Center Of Metairie aptly MDA serves as an emergency medical first (IRAC). As the Zionist wing of the Reform serves the needs of the suburban New Orleans responder for the Israel’s 8 million people. Because Movement. ARZA assists in bringing Reform Jews Jewish community. Since Katrina, the center has it is not a government agency, MDA relies on to Israel with pre- and post-trip programming, and provided expanded programming and activities outside assistance to fully fund its services. educational materials for Reform congregations. including the founding of a Sunday School that currently has 4 classes.

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CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF LOUISIANA ISRAEL BONDS 7037 Freret Street (Regional Office in Atlanta, GA) New Orleans, LA 70118 1100 Spring Street Phone: 504-302-1830 Suite 720 Website: www.jewishlouisiana.com Atlanta, GA 30309 Directed by: Rabbi Zelig and Bluma Rivkin Phone: 800-752-5649 Rabbi Mendel and Malkie Rivkin Website: www.israelbonds.com Emails: [email protected] HADASSAH Email: [email protected] [email protected] (Women’s Zionist Organization of America) Israel Bonds (Development Corporation for Israel) [email protected] New Orleans Chapter was established in 1951, Israel Bonds serves as a [email protected] Contact: Ilana Reisin, President broker/dealer and underwriter for securies issued by Chabad of Louisiana headquarters, serves as a Email: [email protected] the Israeli government. In 2013 the United States Website: Hadassah.org/neworleans Synagogue as well as a center for adult education, domestic sales exceeded $1.12 billion. children’s programs and Jewish social events. Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of JEWISH CHILDREN’S REGIONAL SERVICE Information about our many programs and Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization (South-Central Region) activities is accessible throughout the website. of America (HWZOA) is a voluntary non-profit 3500 N Causeway Blvd. # Ste 1120 organization. With more Than 330,000 members, Metairie, LA 70002 FIDF (FRIENDS OF THE ISRAELI it is dedicated to the ideas of Judaism, Zionism, Mailing Address: P.O. # 7368 DEFENSE FORCE) American democracy, healing, teaching and medical Metairie, LA 70010 FIDF Southeast Region research. Hadassah enhances the health of people Phone: 504-828-6334 Atlanta, GA worldwide through its support of medical Toll Free: 800-729-5277 Phone: 678-250-9030 care and research at the Hadassah Medical Website: www.jcrs.org Website: www.fidf.org Organization (HMO) in Jerusalem. Email: [email protected] Director: Ned Goldberg, ACSW/LCSW Executive Director: Email: [email protected] Seth Baron Founded in 1855, JCRS is the oldest Jewish FIDF (Friends of the children’s agency in the U.S. It serves across 7 Israeli Defense Force) was established in 1981 regional states (AL, AR, LA, MS, OK, TN, and TX) by a group of Holocaust survivors to provide for the neediest and most challenged Jewish and support educational, social, cultural, and children from infancy through college. Jewish Camp recreational programs and facilities for the heroic scholarships and low interest college loans available. men and women of the IDF. FIDF has more than 120,000 supporters, and 15 regional offices.

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JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE JEWISH WAR VERERANS, (3 Locations) JULES LAZARD POST 580 Main Office: 3330 W. Esplanade Ave, Contact: Judge Sol Gothard, Commander Suite 600 3663 Behrman Pl. Metairie, LA 70002 New Orleans, LA 70114 Phone: 504-832-8475 Phone: 504-887-3570 Uptown: 1426 Amelia St. Email: [email protected] THE JEWISH ENDOWMENT New Orleans, LA 70115 http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/ FOUNDATION OF LOUISIANA Phone: 504-831-8475 community-organizations/jewish-war-veterans- 615 Baronne Street North Shore: 1403 N. Causeway Blvd. jules-lazard-post-580/ Suite 150 Mandeville, LA 70471 Our post is dedicated to continue the connection New Orleans, LA 70113 Website: www.jfsneworleans.org between the military, local Veterans, New Orleans Phone: 504-524-4559 Director: Roselle Ungar, CFRE and our Jewish community. Annual Veterans Day Fax: 504-524-4259 Email: [email protected] and Memorial Day events honor our brethren of Director: Saundra K. Levy Founded in 1948, Jewish Family Service`has blessed memory and those living. We participate Email: sandy@jefno,org provided skilled counseling services, support annually in the Community Holocaust Memorial Website: www.jefno.org groups, prevention programs and senior services. program held at the . The Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana JFS is the exclusive representative for Phillips’ Lifeline service, a monitored medical alert system. NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN began in 1967 by Jewish leaders of New (NCJW) Orleans. The organization established a repository OF New Orleans Section for reserved funds. These funds are a source for as GREATER NEW ORLEANS 6221 S. Claiborne Avenue yet undreamed-of projects to nurture an enduring 3747 West Esplanade Avenue New Orleans, LA 70125 and vibrant Jewish New Orleans. Metairie, LA 70002 Phone: 504-861-7788 Phone: 504-780-5600 Fax: 504-861-0044 Executive Director: Michael Weil Email: [email protected] Website: www.jewishnola.com Website: www.ncjwneworleans.org Since 1913, the Jewish Federation of Greater New President: Susan Kierr Orleans has served as the central coordinating body For over one century, NCJW has been at the for the Jewish community. Its mission is to build forefront of social change. Inspired by Jewish and sustain a vibrant Greater New Orleans Jewish values, NCJW courageously takes a Progressive community and to assure the continuity of the stance on issues as child welfare, women’s rights and Jewish people in America, Israel and the Diaspora. reproductive freedom. Numerous volunteer and advocacy opportunities available. Listings continue on next page

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EDUCATION *JCC NURSERY SCHOOL *LOUISE HAYEM MANHEIM NURSERY SCHOOL PRESCHOOL – 5342 St Charles Avenue OF GATES OF PRAYER New Orleans, LA 70115 4000 W. Esplanade Avenue HIGH SCHOOL/ Phone: 504-897-0143 Metairie, LA 70002 *(JEWISH) Director: Adrienne Shulman Phone: 504-885-4339 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The JCC Nursery School keeps its teacher to Director: Melainie Blitz HIGH SCHOOL student ratios small, with tailored classroom 2001 Leon C. Simon Drive activities to meet the social, emotional, intellectual LUSHER CHARTER SCHOOL (K-12) New Orleans, LA 70122 and physical needs of each child. These scheduled Lower School Campus: Phone: 504-286-2600 preschool classes met either three or five days each 7315 Willow Street Admissions Director: Lynn week during the school year. The school has limited New Orleans, LA 70118 Jenkins spaces with an annual waiting list. Phone: 504-862-5110 Email: [email protected] Upper School/Alcee Fortier Campus: Website: www.bfhsla.org *JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL (JCDS) 5624 Freret Street Since its founding in 1957, 3747 West Esplanade Avenue New Orleans, LA 70115 Benjamin Franklin High School has remained Metairie, LA 70002 Phone: 504-304-3960 the most outstanding school in the area attracting Phone: 504-887-4091 Lusher is a K-12 school chartered by Advocates for the best and the brightest students. Consistently Website: www.jcdsnola.org Arts Based Education, which govern the school. ranked as a “top public high school in the nation” Head of School: Sharon Pollin, M.Ed. The curriculum implements cutting-edge reforms by U.S News and World Report, Newsweek, Email: [email protected] in arts-based education while integrating the latest and Business Week, Franklin has received the The mission of the Jewish Community Day developments in brain research. Lusher incorporates highest School Performance Score in Louisiana, School is to instill a love of learning, invigorated a research based systematic approach to literacy and making it the #1 public school in the state, year by academic excellence. JCDS is a nurturing numeracy instruction. The school is in partnership after year. Franklin is repeatedly named a National environment that is grounded in Jewish tradition. with Tulane University. Blue Ribbon School, producing Presidential This year the school is offering a variety of events and National Merit Scholars annually. for parents and early childhood aged children.Hot kosher lunches are available. JCDS is a Pre-K through Fifth grade with a 8:1 student- teacher ratio.

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*TORAH ACADEMY *KOSHER CAJUN NEW YORK DELI & GROCERY 5210 West Esplanade Avenue CHATEAU DRUGS & GIFTS 3519 Severn Avenue Metairie, LA 70006 3544 West Esplanade Avenue S Metairie, LA 70002 Phone: 504-456-6429 Metairie, LA 70002 504-888-2010 Website: www.torahacademy.com Phone: 504-889-2300 Hours: M-Th (10-7pm) Fri & Sun (10-3pm) Academic Director: Rory Rafferty Fax: 504-887-7661 Website: www.koshercajun.com Early Childhood Director: Naomi Smith Website: www.chateaudrugsrx.com Kosher Supervision by LA. Kashrut Committee Email: [email protected] Hours: M-F (9-7pm) Sat (9-5pm) Closed Sundays! Kosher Cajun Is your one stop for all your Torah Academy provides a student centered Chateau Drugs believes and offers the best Kosher shopping! Full service grocery store with a community that provides a rich Jewish pharmaceutical service in the area. Additionally huge selection of Wines and Liquors. Gift baskets, tradition for life-long academic and personal they also have a large upscale gift department Judaica and more! Enjoy our dine-in restaurant, or success. Educational programs are offered for featuring lines as Elaine Gleason, Michael Aram, order Your meat to carry out. children from 2 years of age through 8th grade. Michael Wainwright, Alex & Manhatten Toys to CATERING AVAILABLE. Each child is guided and nurtured to fulfill their name a few PERSONALIZED SERVICE WITH highest potential. FREE GIFT WRAP! Browse around while you fill your prescriptions! Most insurance and

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MAPLE STREET BOOK SHOP JFS PHILLIPS LIFELINE MEDICAL MARDI GRAS MITZVA MAKERS 7523 Maple St, MONITORING ALERT SYSTEM Chariman: Dr. Hilton Title New Orleans, LA 70118 3300 W. Esplanade Ave. Phone: 504-957-5310. Website: www.maplestreetbookshop.com Suite 600 Indoor parade of “merry makers” who bring annual Phone: 504-866-4916 Metairie, LA 70002 Mardi Gras cheer to designated Touro Infirmary (New, Used, Rare & E-books) Contact: Jane Levine patients and seniors residing at the Malta House. Hours: M-Sat (10-6pm) Sun (11-5pm) Email: [email protected] Located in the uptown section of New Orleans, Phone: 504-831-8475 ext: 128 Maple Street Book Shop has served the local book Jewish Family service is the exclusive representative MUSIC lovers of New Orleans for 50 years! The store is for Phillips Lifeline service, a monitored medical known for hosting numerous book signings, readings alert system. JFS provides installation, product and other unique events throughout the year. The servicing and courtesy visitations. The AutoAlert most exceptional customer service in town! button is 100% waterproof. No long term contracts are required. System is maintained and tested monthly.

PANORAMA JAZZ BAND Website: www,panoramajazzband.com MARDI GRAS ZONE Contact: Ben Schenck 2706 Royal Street Email: [email protected] New Orleans, LA 70117 New Orleans Jazz, Brass and KLEZMER BAND. 504-947-8787 2015 marks our 20th year serving greater New Orleans Websites: mardigraszonesupermarket.net TOURO INFIRMARY and the Jewish community. mardigraszone.com 1401 Foucher Street ALWAYS OPEN-- 24/7 New Orleans, LA 70115 Mardi Gras Zone offers a great selection and Phone: 504-897-7011 Website: www.touro.com RELIGIOUS LIFE inventory of grocery items including KOSHER, CEMETERIES International Foods, Dairy, Vegetarian, Gluten-Free, Touro Infirmary was founded in 1852. and Organic. MGZ carries 100% Cajun (trademark) Touro is New Orleans’ only community based, not- local produce and farm fresh eggs are available daily. A for-profit, faith-based hospital. Touro continues to HISTORIC NOTE: The first Jewish cemetery complete line of pet and green cleaning products are make a difference in the lives of people in the New in the Greater New Orleans area was located at stocked. The in-house café offers homemade salads, Orleans community, ensuring their health needs 2400 Saratoga street (corner of Saratoga St. and fresh and delicious home-baked breads, hand tossed are met with access to quality attention and care. Jackson Ave.). It was used from 1828 – 1872. 20” brick oven pizza, and classic New Orleans deli WOLDENBERG VILLAGE In 1957, under the supervision of the Rabbinic food and po-boys. 3701 Behrman Place Council, the remains of these first Jewish settlers New Orleans, LA 70114 were removed and reinterred at Hebrew NAGHI’S Phone: 504-367-5640 Rest Cemetery. 633 Royal St. Website: www.liveatwv.com AHAVA SHALOM (ORTHODOX) New Orleans, LA 70130 Woldenberg Village serves as one of the region’s Phone: 504-586-8373 4400 Elysian Fields Avenue premiere retirement and healthcare facilities. The New Orleans, LA We specialize in various one of a kind estate jewelry community consists of 60 Independent Living Contact: Ken Pailet (504-837-0770, in precious stones and cuts. We offer a large Garden Apartment Homes, 60 Assisted Living (504-837-0770 or 504-905-4992) assortment of many antique European and rose cut Apartments and 120 bed skilled nursing facility. diamonds. Additionally, we showcase a large Shabbat services are held every Saturday on site. ANSHE SFARD SYNAGOGUE selection of Judaica. MARDI GRAS GROUPS (ORTHODOX) OOH LA LA 4400 Elysian Fields Avenue 524 Saint Peter () New Orleans, LA (Upper Pontalba Shops at Jackson Square) Contact: Rabbi David Polsky (646-523-7456)

New Orleans, LA 70116 DU JIEUX Phone: 504-522-7554 www.krewedujieux.com CHEVRA THILIM CEMETERY ASSOCIATION Hours: M-Sun, daily (10–6pm) (CONSERVATIVE) KREWE DU JIEUX is a sub-krewe of the Krewe 4824 Canal Street Located in the upper Pontalba side of Jackson Delusion’s unique walking parade. Krewe Delusion New Orleans, LA Square, Ooh La la gallery specializes in contemporary keeps its annual theme a secret until the actual day Contact: Sandy Lassen 504-782-7218 jewelry, art, unique collectibles, Judaica and more. The of the parade. This parade immediately follows the giftware includes distinctive jewelry pieces made with in the French Quarter. CHEVRA THILIM MEMORIAL PARK Swarovski crystals, Murano blown glass and fanciful 2015 date: Saturday, January 31st. 5000 Iberville Street Venetian masks. KREWE DU MISHIGAS New Orleans, LA HEALTH & FITNESS & MIND www.krewedumishigas.com Contact: Sandy Lassen 504-782-7218 Krewe du Mishigas is the 1st Jewish Satirical CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER Parading Organization, founded In 1996. is a Uptown Campus— 5342 St. Charles Ave. (ORTHODOX) sub-krewe of the Krewe du Vieux, which is known 4321 Frenchman Street Phone: 504-897-0143 for wild satire, adult themes, and political comedy, Metairie Campus— 3747 W. Esplanade Ave. New Orleans, LA as well as for showcasing some of the best brass Phone: 504-887-5158 Contact: Marshall Gerson 504-283-4469 and jazz bands in New Orleans. Website: www.nojcc.org 2015 date: Saturday, January 31st. CONGREGATION GATES OF PRAYER The JCC Fitness Centers are committed to helping (REFORM) members achieve positive lifestyle changes. The 1412 Joseph Street facilities are well-maintained and offer state-of- New Orleans, LA the-art equipment, professionally taught classes Contact: 504-885-2600 and a friendly and accessible staff. 18 Crescent City Jewish News ™ LISTINGS

HEBREW REST CEMETERIES 1, 2 & 3 MOISHE HOUSE 2100 Pelopidas at Frenchman GENERATIONS (Located in the Marigny district of New Orleans) New Orleans, LA JEWCCY FB: www.facebook.com/mhnola Contact: Herbert Barton 504-861-3693 or Jewish Crescent City Youth Email: [email protected] 504-895-4853 C/o Congregation Temple Sinai Website: www.moishehouse.org 6227 Saint Charles Avenue Regional Director: Jaycee Greenblatt JEWISH BURIAL RITES New Orleans, LA 70118 Email: [email protected] 4321 Frenchman Street Director of Youth Moishe House New Orleans is a welcoming, New Orleans, LA Engagement: Ivy Cohen inclusive home-based community. The purpose Contact: Sandy Lassen 504-782-7218 Phone: 504-912-5515 of the group is to provide a meaningful space for Email: [email protected] young Jewish adults In their 20’s to share, explore NORTHSHORE JEWISH President: Jordan Miller and engage in socialjustice, community CONGREGATION (REFORM) involvement and Jewish leadership. 2260 West 21st Street JewCCY is the Reform youth group for all New Covington, LA Orleans and Metairie high schoolers. It is the local Contact: NJC Office 985-951-7976 chapter of NFTY (North American Federation of FUNERAL HOMES & Temple Youth.) We are affiliated with BURIAL SERVICES SHIR CHADASH/TIKVAT Congregation Temple Sinai, Congregation Gates of SHALOM CEMETERY Prayer and Touro Synagogue; however, any Jewish high school student can attend our events. JEWISH BURIAL SOCIETY OF (CONSERVATIVE) GREATER NEW ORLEANS Jefferson Memorial Gardens JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER (CHEVRA KADISHA) Jefferson Memorial Gardens (Senior Adult Programming) Contact: Sandy Lassen (CHAIR) 11316 River Rd. Rose, LA 5342 St Charles Ave. Email: [email protected] Contact: Sandy Lassen 504-782-7218 Phone: 504-897-0143 Volunteers from several congregations are trained to Website: www.nojcc.org properly prepare the body for traditional Jewish burials. TOURO SYNAGOGUE AND Director: Rachel Ruth TEMPLE SINAI (REFORM) Email: [email protected] LAKE LAWN METAIRIE FUNERAL 4737 Canal Street (corner- N. Anthony St.) The Jewish Community Center offers a variety HOME AND CEMETERIES New Orleans, LA of programs and activities that address the social, 5100 Pontchartrain Boulevard Herb Barton 504-288-7922 or 504-895-4853 cultural and physical needs of community members New Orleans, LA 70124 65 and older. Interesting day excursions, Morris Phone: 504-486-6331 Bart Sr. Lecture Series and game clubs are some Website: www.dignitymemorial.com/ CLERGY & RITUAL of the specific programming available. Additional lake-lawn-met-funeral-home fees for participants that are not JCC members. SERVICES THARP-SONTHEIMER-THARP JEWISH GENEALOGY SOCIETY 1600 N. Causeway Boulevard CANTOR SAMUEL KRUSH OF NEW ORLEANS Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-391-8292 P.O. Box 7811 Email: [email protected] Cell: 504-228-5071 Metairie, LA 70010 Phone: 504-835-2341 Email: [email protected] Phone: 504-836-2720 Website: www.tharpsontheimerfh.com Serving as High Holiday Cantor at Website: www.jewishgen.org/jgsno/index/htm Contact: Billy Henry, Funeral Director Woldenberg Living Centre. Cantor The Jewish Genealogical Society ( JGS) of New For 98 years we have served the needs of the Krush is LOUISIANA LICENSED Orleans is a non-profit organization for those who Jewish community of New Orleans. We have the to officiate local and destination desire to research their Jewish roots in Louisiana experience, knowledge and longevity to respectfully weddings. Will design the ceremony that you desire! and worldwide. Our purpose is to bring members work with all local Rabbis and the Cheva Kadisha together to share information and ideas, and to committee. We are available to assist your family periodically present programs which will assist through this entire life cycle process. Funerals & GREATER NEW ORLEANS with such research, providing members with a Cremations available. RABBINICAL COUNCIL broad base of knowledge regarding resources President: Rabbi Ethan Linden and research skills. Email: [email protected] JUDAICA JNOLA KITCHEN KASHERING SERVICE 3747 West Esplanade Avenue ART BY ANNA GIL Rabbi Mendel Rivkin Metairie, LA 70002 Website: annagil.com 504-866-5164 Phone: 504-780-5612 Phone: 504-233-4818 JNOLA Manager & Newcomers Email: [email protected] MIKVAH CHAYA MUSHKA Coordinator: Miranda Larsen Winner of the Golden Ghetto Award on AT RINGGER WOMEN’S Website: www.jnola.com Facebook in February, 2013. ENRICHMENT CENTER JNOLA serves the Jewish Next Gen community in Anna Gil expresses her creativity through oil paint. 7033 Freret Street New Orleans (ages 21-45) through a variety of She uses lines, patterns, sharp edges and large New Orleans, LA 70118 programming including social engagement, profes- fields of color in her work. She is able to express her Contact: Bluma Rivkin (347-564-6525) sional networking, enriching and educational influences and inspirations through Hebrew words Email: [email protected] opportunities, leadership development, and and the many layers of meaning in each letter. tikkun olam (repairing the world/social action). MOHEL DASHKA ROTH CONTEMPORARY

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Listings continue on next page Source 19 ™ listings GATES OF PRAYER JUDAICA SHOP CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL 4000 West Esplanade Avenue 4004 W. Esplanade Avenue TEMPLE SINAI Metairie, LA 70002 Metairie, LA 70002 6227 St. Charles Avenue Phone: 504-885-2600 Phone: 504-454-5080 New Orleans, LA 70118 Website: www.gatesofprayer.org Fax: 504-883-8010 Phone: 504-861-3102 Congregation Gates of Prayer Sisterhood Gift Shop Website: www.bethisraelnola.com Email: [email protected] carrying a full line of Judaica gift items for all occasions. Rabbi: Gabe Greenberg Website: www.templesinaino.org Look for our annual CHANUKAH GIFT SHOW! Email: [email protected] Rabbi: Edward P Cohn Administator: Rabbi David Posternock Cantor: Joel Colman NAGHI’S Email: [email protected] Executive Director: Ellen Rae Shalett 633 Royal St. President: Bradley Bain President: Robert Brickman New Orleans, LA 70130 Congregation Beth Israel is a Modern Orthodox The members of Temple Sinai reaffirm our mission Phone: 504-586-8373 Synagogue. We are proud of our multi-generational as an historic Reform Jewish house of worship, in Naghi’s has an extensive and Unique assortment of heritage and over 100 year presence in the Greater the spirit of the Covenant that we made with God, traditional to contemporary menorahs, New Orleans area. Our mission is to create an to provide visionary leadership and opportunities mezuzahs, Kiddush cups and Shabbat candlesticks. accessible spiritual home, where all Jews, regardless in spiritual, educational, moral and social programs Internationally recognized artist Anna Gil has of affiliation or background, are warmly embraced which strengthen and enrich the lives of our numerous pieces of her artwork for sale. and welcomed into our greater family. congregants and contribute to the community of Additionally the store offers a large assortment of Greater New Orleans. antique jewelry from their estate collection. SYNAGOGUES- TOURO SYNAGOGUE TOURO SISTERHOOD BOOK 4238 St. Charles Avenue AND JUDAICA SHOP CONSERVATIVE New Orleans, LA 70115 4328 ST. Charles Avenue SHIR CHADASH CONSERVATIVE Phone: 504-895-4843 New Orleans, LA 70115 CONGREGATION Fax: 504-897-0237 Phone: 504-895-4843 3737 West Esplanade Avenue Website: www.tourosynagogue.com Metairie, LA 70002 The Touro Judaica Shop carries a large selection of Rabbi: Alexis D. Berk Phone: 504-889-1144 Ahava products, books, music and many Judaica selec- Rabbi of Lifelong Learning: Todd Silverman Email: [email protected] tions for all special occasions. The shop is open when Rabbi Emeritus: David Goldstein Website: www.shirchadash.org religious school is in session and by appointment. Cantor: David Mintz Rabbi: Ethan Linden Visa and MasterCard accepted. Executive Director: Kerry Tapia Executive Director: Sandy Lassen Email: [email protected] YVONNE YUSPEH STRUG President: Sanford Krilov President: Susan Good SISTERHOOD JUDAICA SHOP As a traditional egalitarian synagogue, we are commit- Touro Synagogue’s mission stems from IN TEMPLE SINAI ted to giving all Jews an equal role in Jewish prayer. Shir its traditional roots, but blends well with 6227 ST. Charles Avenue Chadash was formed in 1999 by the union of Tikvat our mainstream Reform Jewish Philosophy which New Orleans, LA 70118 Shalom and Chevra Thilim. We are excited about the supports our emphasis on the love of Jewish living, Great selection of gifts for all occasions! Open growth and potential of our synagogue and of the a commitment to social justice, to Klal Yisrael and Sundays during Religious School 9:00 am – 11:30 am Jewish community of Greater New Orleans. to Jewish practice founded in knowledge. and Wednesdays during mid-week Hebrew classes. SYNAGOGUES-REFORM university life CONGRGATION GATES OF PRAYER

SYNAGOGUES- 4000 West Esplanade Avenue ROHR CHABAD JEWISH STUDENT ORTHODOX Metairie, LA 70002 CENTER AT TULANE UNIVERSITY Phone: 504-885-2600 7033 Freret Street ANSHE SFARD SYNAGOGUE Email: [email protected] New Orleans, LA 70118 2230 Carondelet Street Website: www.gatesofprayer.org Director: Rabbi Yochanan Rivkin New Orleans, LA 70130 Rabbi: Robert Loewy Website: www.tulanechabad.org 6221 S. Claiborne Avenue Executive Director: Darrah Caplan New Orleans, LA 70125 President: Michele Mohre Gelman TULANE UNIVERSITY HILLEL Phone: 504:522-4714 As the only Reform Jewish congregation in Metai- (THE GOLDIE AND MORRIS MINTZ Rabbi: David Polsky rie. Gates of Prayer is dedicated to provide members CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE) Email: [email protected] with opportunities to find Kedusha through participa- 912 Broadway Website: www.anshesfard.org tion in worship services, life-cycle events, educational New Orleans, LA 70118 Facebook: https:’’www.facebook.com/pages/ activities and social action programs that reflect our Executive Director: Rabbi Yonah Schiller Congretation-Anshe-Sfard-of-New-Orleans/ enduring commitment to Torah, Avodah and Gemilut. Email: [email protected] 190270014373125 Website: tulanehillel.org Twitter: @AnsheSfard NORTHSHORE JEWISH CONGREGATION Congregation President: Dr. Gary Remerr 1403 North Causeway Blvd Mandeville, LA 70471 Anshe Sfard is an orthodox congregation in the Phone: 985-951-7976 heart of New Orleans that welcomes all who Rabbi: Deborah Zecher (monthly) attend. It’s beautiful and historic synagogue, Website: www.northshorejewish.org built in 1926, is the last vestige of a time when Email: [email protected] its surrounding neighborhood was the center of President: Michael Hertzig Jewish life in New Orleans. Anshe Sfard, as the Email: [email protected] closest synagogue to downtown New Orleans, also serves the religious needs of countless tourists, The Northshore Jewish Congregation (NJC) is a conventioneers, and volunteer groups. member of the Union of Reform Judaism. NJC is located on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain about 30 miles from downtown New Orleans in Mandeville. It is a warm and inviting community built on the fundamental and enduring principals of Listings continue on next page Reform Judaism. 2020 CrescentCrescent CityCity JewishJewish NewsNews ™ katrina

TULANE UNIVERSITY JEWISH FRATERNITIES & SORORITIES: ByKatrina Rabbi Robert H. Loewy Yahrzeit Congregation Gates of Prayer- Metairie, LA FRATERNITY (TAU UPSILON CHAPTER) 7220 Zimple Street ugust 29, 2005 will always be New Orleans, LA 70118 a date indelibly etched in the President: Alex Gutwillig minds of those of us who lived in Greater New Orleans at SORORITY the time. Personally, I treat it as akin to a (EPSILON CHAPTER) 1134 Broadway yahrzeit,A when we remember loved ones New Orleans, LA 70118 who died. We feel a sense of loss, but build Website: http://tulaneaephi.chapterspot.com upon those memories and relationships to President: Lissy Rabin move forward into the future. We can think similarly of the Katrina group and the youth initiative designed to SORORITY experience. Lives were lost and we honor strengthen our joint programs. We learned to (ALPHA IOTA CHAPTER) their memory. Many lost their homes and 1013 Broadway be less parochial and look for the greater good. personal possessions. We appreciate that they Congregation Gates of Prayer is the New Orleans, LA 70118 were just “things,” but that does not mean Website: http://tulanesdt.chapterspot.com same synagogue that it was before the they were not special to us. Friendships and President: Shelby Bourgeois storm, a caring, joyous, spiritual center for close relationships ended or were at least all of its members and community, but diminished as people chose not to return. it is also different. Some of that change TULANE UNIVERSITY JEWISH We miss those people, but have developed STUDIES PROGRAM is attributable to post-Katrina New new meaningful connections, either with 7031 Freret Street Orleans and some to simply the normal New Orleans, LA 70118 former acquaintances or newcomers to our community. Life does go on and we embrace ebbs and flows of Jewish life. Though our Phone: 504-865-5349 membership numbers are not what they Website: http://tulane.edu/liberal-arts/jewish-studies what many of us refer to as the “new normal.” were, we cherish each individual and family, Email: [email protected] It’s not what it was, but it is what it is. Dept. Chair: Dr. Brian Horowitz In our Metairie Jewish community, we perhaps even more so. By welcoming Rabbi Alexis Pinsky, the first Assistant Rabbi in represents an Interdisciplinary welcomed Congregation Beth Israel to the the 165 year history of the congregation approach to the study of the Jews, their history, vibrant West Esplanade Jewish corridor. religion, language, thought, culture, literature, and While there were always cordial relations onto our staff, we are investing in the future. music. The Tulane University Jewish Studies between Congregations Gates of Prayer and In addition to her normal congregational program was recently ranked 9th in the nation. Beth Israel, Katrina forged unique bonds duties, she will be reaching out to the many of real friendship. We discovered that there post-Katrina newcomers to our community, were ways we could literally live together who have chosen to make New Orleans under one roof, study, program, and at times, their home. Many came in order to make a even pray together, in spite of our different difference, while others are here due to the approaches to Judaism. Our example exciting entrepreneurial environment that became a national model for meaningful has developed since the storm. Jewish pluralism. Yitgadal, v’yitkadash… Great and The three Reform synagogues closely sanctified is God’s great name. We mark this worked together in the aftermath of the tenth anniversary yahrzeit by remembering storm out of necessity, but that closeness the past difficult days, but also building upon has continued. A prime example of that them for our present and our tomorrows. is JewCCY our combined teen youth ANNA GIL FINE ARTIST VISUAL COMMUNICATION LABORATORY STUDIO OPEN BY APPOINTMENT OFFERING CONSULTATION AND DESIGN SERVICES: ~ ADVERTISING & MARKETING ~ BRAND / IDENTITY WWW.ANNAGIL.COM ~ GRAPHIC DESIGN ~ WEB DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT WWW.SHAYNATOVABLUM.COM

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idney Smith is telling the photographer and promoter and Mother-In-Law improbable story of his very successful tour owner and Lounge originally exit from New Orleans operator of the Haunted History run by famous New after Katrina. Sitting in Tours in the Vieux Carré and Orleans rhythm and his tony Uptown home festooned Garden District. blues singer Ernie Swith the famous images of rock With twinkling eyes he K-Doe and his wife performers and famous film relates the tale of his survival Antoinette. It has also and TV vestiges he has snapped from the ravaging Hurricane undergone a series through the years, he is bedecked Katrina floodwaters ten years ago of four title changes in a casual pink camisole that with measured calm and expert as it was presented clashes with the heavy dark beard comic timing. since 2007 at places and more than ample chest hair It is a tale Smith first related like the New York International Smith played himself in the he sports. to playwright and fellow tour Fringe Festival (where it won top work’s latest iteration with three He is an unbelievable New guide Rob Florence in 2006, one honors), Los Angeles, Chicago shows produced by Jonathan Orleans character – the kind one of dozens of interviews Florence and nearby Lockport last year. Mares Productions and directed usually reads about in picaresque had collected in the hopes of Rewritten and retitled as on August 28 and 29, 2015 at the novels where the protagonist rises mounting a Katrina-themed “Katrina: The Mother-in- Joy Theater. above trials and tribulations with series of monologues titled Law of ‘Em All,” six of the “I haven’t had the time,” he relative ease to emerge victorious “Fleeing Katrina.” original characters now interact explains. “This is the first time on his quest. A hopeless romantic Through the years, the play with one another in the bar and I had the chance to do it, quite who has been married and has morphed from the original often perform other minor roles honestly.” divorced four times, the 61-year- series of individual monologues in other character’s stories. Smith’s story starts out with old is a highly regarded rock into a fictional play set in the In a strange twist of fate, several of his tour operators

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converging on his home, thinking he might be evacuated. Left they would be safer there than on alone with an 80-year-old and their own properties. “Ironically, his makeshift zoo with horrible none of their areas flooded,” he is smells, Smith made a run for quick to point out, “only mine.” it, eventually leaving town with Despite having several nothing more than the clothes animals of his own, Smith took on his back, a loaded pistol, his in one of his tour guides and his passport and a satchel filled with pregnant wife, their two kids and huge undeposited cash receipts several dogs and cats, a friend from his tour business. and her 80-year-old mother plus The story that Smith related their additional cats and dogs. “I on stage played out at the New had Noah’s ark here,” he quips. Orleans airport and in Ft. The day after the storm’s Smith, Arkansas, to where he passage, he woke up to a was airlifted. Hilarity prevailed nightmare. “My street was a river. as he dealt with what to do My front yard was a lake. I had with a loaded gun at a security water coming into my house,” he checkpoint and how to convince recalls. He described the swirling authorities that have discovered waters that filled the bottom of his sizable cash reserves that he ith wife Dahlia, pictured is Rabbi Uri Topolosky, at the his residence as “five feet of toxic is not a drug dealer and that the iconic Grand Canyon. Topolosky was instrumental in soup that you would not want to reason he is headed to Miami the decision of Congregation Beth Israel to relocate to put your foot into.” is to reach family members, not Metairie and build on land adjacent to Congregation Five days later, Smith was make a drug buy. Gates of Prayer in 2012. While the Topoloskys and their four confronted by a stranger named The role was made all the children left New Orleans for Silver Spring, Maryland in 2013, their Gambino, ostensibly looting more funny by the fact that W attachments to New Orleans still run deep. They returned to New his house, but who repaired his it actually happened and that Orleans for a special Katrina-related weekend in August of 2015. phone, had purloined a boat Smith finally got to play the role and offered to get him to where of a lifetime – his own.

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community SYNAGOGUES/ JEWISH LIFE AT LSU resources TEMPLES JEWISH STUDIES AT LSU: Jewish Federation of Greater CONGREGATION B’NAI ISRAEL A minor degree is offered with courses Baton Rouge 3354 Kleinert Avenue and faculty from a variety of humanities 4845 Jamestown Suite, Suite 210 Baton Rouge, LA 70806 and social science disciplines. Baton Rouge, LA 70808 225-343-0111 Joseph Kronick, Director Ellen Sager, Executive Director Jordan Goldson, Rabbi Professor of English [email protected] Barry Weinstein, Rabbi Emeritus 212-A Allen Hall www.jewishbr.org Deborah Sternberg, President Louisiana State University Hours of Operation— Cathy Duplechin Office Administrator Baton Rouge, LA70803 M-F 9am – 2pm [email protected] www.bnaibr.org [email protected] Closed Wednesdays Congregation B’nai Israel is celebrating ph: 225-578-3082 over 150 years as one of the oldest fax: 225-578-4129 Reform congregations in the U.S. It is an BETH SHALOM SYNAGOGUE active and vibrant temple with diverse HILLEL AT LSU: 9111 Jefferson Hwy membership and leadership. Numerous activities for a small but active Baton Rouge, LA 70809 group of students. Planned activities 225-924-6773 include an on campus sukkah, in home Thomas Gardner, Rabbi early childhood/ Shabbat dinners, and Taglit-Birthright [email protected] youth group Israel affiliation. www.Bethshalomsynagogue.org. www.hillelatlsu.org Beth Shalom Synagogue is a “family Alfred G. Rayne Learning Center Lexi DeWitt, President style” Reform congregation with a 9111 Jefferson Hwy Sharon A. Weltman, Faculty Advisor hamish, relaxed atmosphere. Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Email: [email protected] Our joy in expressing our Judaism is 225-924-6772 exponentially increased when shared Dottie Smith, Director FRATERNITY: with our congergational family. Infant care through pre-kindergarten Epsilon Eta chapter was officially The essence of our shul family is truly the center emphasizing Judaism- customs recognized by the LSU Inter-Fraternity sum of the uniqueness and diversity of and culture. Council in 2005. our members. It prides itself on the character and BATON ROUGE FEDERATION OF diversity of its members. TEMPLE YOUTH (BARFTY) Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity www..org/so/tygs/barfty LSU Box # 25415 Nina Jalenak, President Baton Rouge., LA 70803 www.lsusam.com Jordan Lieberman, President [email protected]

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SourceSource 2525 ™ HOLIDAYS AT A GLANCE Shabbat Shemini Atzeret Passover Celebrated Fridays at sundown to Eighth Day of Assembly Celebrates the liberation of the Israel- commemorate G-d’s day of rest after Celebrated the day after Sukkot and ites from slavery in Egypt. At the seder six days of creation. Traditions include thus sometimes considered an exten- (service and festive meal), the Hag- lighting candles, drinking wine and sion of that holiday. Marks the first gadah (collection of texts and com- eating challah (braided bread). Havdal- time tefillat geshem (prayer for rain) is mentaries on the Exodus) is read and lah, the farewell ceremony to Shabbat, recited during services, a practice that symbolic foods are eaten. In remem- takes place upon the appearance of continues until Pesach. 22 Tishrei brance of the departure of the Israelites, three stars in the Saturday night sky who could not wait for their bread to and is celebrated by lighting a braided Simchat Torah rise before fleeing, matzoh (unleavened candle. Rejoicing for the Torah bread) is eaten for the eight days of Celebrates the completion of the an- Passover. 15-22 Nissan Rosh Hashanah nual Torah-reading cycle. After finish- Jewish New Year ing the last sentence of the chapter Sefirat HaOmer Festive celebration during which indi- Devarim (Deuteronomy), the Torah is Counting of the Omer viduals contemplate past, present and joyously paraded seven times around Seven-week period that begins the sec- future actions. Traditional foods include the synagogue. The new cycle begins ond night of Pesach and ends at Shavu- round challah and apples with honey, immediately with a reading from out. The 32 mourning days during this symbolizing wholeness and sweetness Bereshit (Genesis). 23 Tishrei time commemorate the deaths of Rabbi for the new year. Commences the Ten Akiva’s students. Traditionally weddings, Days of Awe, which culminate on Yom Chanukah festivities and haircuts are prohibited Kippur. 1-2 Tishrei Festival of Lights during this time. 16 Nissan- 5 Sivan Eight-day holiday commemorating the Yom Kippur Jewish victory over the Syrians and the Yom HaShoah Day of Atonement miracle of the rededication of the Temple, Holocaust Remembrance Holiest day of the Jewish year. Through when oil meant to last for one day burned Day fasting and prayer, Jews reflect upon for eight. Celebrated by lighting candles Day chosen by the Israeli Knesset in their relationships with other people in a chanukiah (a nine-branched cande- 1951 to mourn the millions killed in the and with G-d. Atoning for wrongdoings labrum), eating potato latkes, playing Holocaust. Often commemorated with and failures to take the right actions. with dreidels (spinning tops) and giving speeches by survivors and the reading The sounding of the shofar (ram’s horn) money or gifts. 25 Kishev- 2 Tevet of names. In Israel, a siren’s blast allows signals the end of the holiday. 10 Tishrei collective remembrance in a moment of Tu B’Shevat silence. 27 Nissan SuCCot New Year of Trees Festival of Booths Biblical in origin, a holiday that cele- Yom HaZikaron Commemorates the fulfillment of G-d’s brates springtime renewal and growth. Martyr and Heroes’ promise to bring the Israelites to the Traditions include eating fruit and Memorial Day Promised Land after 40 years of wan- planting trees. 15 Shevat Day of remembrance for all who sacri- dering. Many people build a sukkah ficed themselves for the state of Israel. (booth), a temporary structure with a Purim Public observances include the lighting Feast of Lots of yahrzeit (memorial) candles, visiting roof made of branches, modeled after Joyous holiday commemorating the the huts constructed in the desert. Also graves and reciting psalms. In Israel, si- rescue of the Jews by Queen Esther and rens blast once in the morning and then celebrated with shaking of the lulav her uncle Mordecai from the evil Ha- (assemblage of palm, willow and myrtle in the evening to begin Yom HaAtzmaut, man. Traditions include parties, dances, Israel Independence Day. 4 Iyar branches) and etrog (a lemon-like fruit). gift-giving and eating hamantaschen 15-21 Tishrei (3-cornered fruit filled pastries). Some also fast before Purim to remember the three-day fast Esther requested of the Jews of Persia. 14 Adar

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Yom HaAtzmaut Shavuot Tisha B’Av Israel Independence Day Festival of Weeks Ninth Day of Av On May 14, 1948, Israel was declared an Celebrated the day after Sefirat HaOmer Day of fasting and mourning com- independent state. Many Jews world- ends to commemorate the giving of the memorating the destruction of the First wide celebrate with parades, festivals Torah at Sinai and the spring harvest. Tra- and Second Temples, both of which and donations to Jewish charities. 5 Iyar ditionally, Jews read the Ten Command- took place on the ninth of Av. The Book ments and the Book of Ruth and eat dairy of Lamentations is read, and some con- Lag B’Omer products. Religious school confirmation duct services sitting on the floor. 9 Av Thirty-Third Day of Omer often takes place at this time. 6-7 Sivan One-day suspension of the traditional TU B’AV Coming after three weeks of sadness, Tu mourning period during Sefirat HaOmer. Fast of Tammuz On this day, a plague afflicting Rabbi Fast from dawn until nightfall com- B’Av marks one of the happiest days on Akiva’s students ceased. Also commemo- memorating the day Moses broke the the Jewish calendar. In modern times rates Bar Kochba’s recapture of Jerusa- first Tablets of the Covenant because it has become a day dedicated to love lem from the Romans. Celebrated with the Israelites made the Golden Calf. and in many ways a Jewish version of picnics and nature outings. 18 Iyar Also marks the beginning of the siege Valentine’s Day. It is a day highly cov- on Jerusalem before its destruction. eted for weddings. 15 Av Begins the Three Weeks, a mourning period ending at Tisha B’Av. 17 Tammuz.

Jewish Holidays 5776 - 2015/2016 Rosh Hashana Sept. 14-15, 2015 Oct. 3-4, 2016 Yom Kippur Sept. 23, 2015 Oct. 12, 2016 Succot Sept. 28-Oct. 4, 2015 Oct. 17-23, 2016 Shemini Atzeret Oct. 5, 2015 Oct. 24, 2016 Simchat Torah Oct. 6, 2015 Oct. 25, 2016 Chanukah Dec. 7-14, 2015 Dec. 25-Jan. 1 Tu B Shevat Jan. 25, 2016 Purim Mar 24, 2016 Passover apr. 23-30, 2016 Yom HaShoah May 5, 2016 Yom HaZikaron May 11, 2016 Yom HaAtzmaut May 12, 2016 Lag B’Omer May 26, 2016 Yom Yerushalayim May 17, 2015 Shavuot Jun 12-13, 2016 Tisha B’Av aug 14, 2016 Tu B’ Av aug 19, 2016 •Holidays begin at sundown on the evening before the day indicated.

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MONTHLY LISTING OF NEW ORLEANS CELEBRATIONS DECEMBER APRIL 2015 Celebration in the Oaks Run/ Hogs for the Cause (4/1-2) Walk (12/5) Freret Street Fest (4/2) SEPTEMBER New Orleans Bowl (12/19) Crescent City Classic (4/2) 1st Original Red Beans & Rice Crescent City Countdown at French Quarter Festival (4/7-10) Cook-off (9/7) Jackson Square (12/31-1/1/16) Zurich Classic (4/18-24) Southern Decadence (9/2-7) New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Louisiana Seafood Festival Festival Weekend I (4/22-24) (9/4-6) 2016 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage We Live to Eat Restaurant Week Festival Weekend ll (4/29-5/1) (9/14-20) JANUARY: Sugar Bowl (1/1) MAY OCTOBER Twelfth Night Celebration (1/6) Zoo-To-Do (5/6) Ponderosa Stomp (10/1-3) Parade Season Starts (1/6) Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo Art for Arts’ Sake (10/3) Re-enactments of the Battle of (5/20-22) Oktoberfest (10/9-10, 10/16-17, New Orleans (1/8-9) 10/23-24) JUNE New Orleans Film Festival FEBRUARY: New Orleans Wine and Food (10/14-22) Lundi Gras (2/8) Experience (6/8-12) Crescent City Blues & BBQ Mardi Gras (2/9) Creole Tomato Festival (6/11-12) Festival (10/16-18) Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon (2/28) Cajun Zydeco Festival (6/18-19) Krewe of Boo Parade( 10/24) Festigals (6/28-31) Mirliton Festival (10/25) MARCH Words and Music Festival Soul Fest (3/7-8) JULY (10/28-11/1) Buku Music and Art Project Essence Festival (6/30-7/3) Voodoo Music & Arts Experience (3/18) Running of the Bulls (7/7-10) (10/30-11/1) New Orleans International Beer Tales of the Cocktail (7/19-24) Festival (3/19) NOVEMBER Fashion Week Nola (TBA) AUGUST Treme Creole Gumbo Festival Congo Square New Rhythms Satchmo SummerFest (8/4-7) (11/14-15) Festival (3/19-20) Whitney White Linen Night (8/6) Fringe Festival (11/19-23) Spring Fiesta (3/13 and 3/20) COOLinary New Orleans (8/1-31) Oak Street Po-Boy Festival Tennessee Williams Festival Red Dress Run (8/13) (11/23) (3/30-4/3) Dirty Linen Night (8/13) Thanksgiving Day (11/26) Foodfest (3/18-20) Celebration in the Oaks (11/27- SEPTEMBER 1/2/16) 2nd Original Red Beans & Rice Bayou Classic (11/28) Cook-off (9/5)

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ALGIERS FERRY FORT PIKE MUSEE CONTI WAX MUSEUM OGDEN MUSEUM OF www.algiersferry.org www.lastateparks.com www.neworleanswaxmuseum.com SOUTHERN ART Phone: 504-376-8180 Phone: 504-662-5703 Phone: 504- 581-1993 www.ogdenmuseum.org 1 Canal Street 27100 Chef Menteur Hwy. 917 Conti St. Phone: 504-539-9600 New Orleans, LA New Orleans, LA New Orleans, LA 925 Camp St., New Orleans, LA ALLWAYS LOUNGE FRENCH MARKET THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II www.theallwayslounge.net www.frenchmarket.org MUSEUM OLD MARQUER THEATRE Lounge Phone: 504-218-5778 Phone: 504-522-2621 www.nationalww2museum.org www.oldmarquer.com 2240 Saint Claude Avenue 2 French Market Place Phone: 504-528-1944 504-298-8676 New Orleans, LA New Orleans, LA 945 Magazine St. 2400 St. Claude Avenue New Orleans, LA New Orleans, LA ASHE’ POWER HOUSE THEATER GALLIER HOUSE www.asjecac.org/main/ www.hgghh.org THE NEW CANAL LIGHTHOUSE OLD U.S. MINT 1750 Baronne Street Historic French Quarter Home www.saveourlake.org lsm.crt.state.la.us New Orleans, LA Phone: 504-525-5661 Phone: 504- 282-2134 Phone: 504-568-6968 1132 Royal St. 8001 Lakeshore Dr. 400 Esplanade St., New Orleans, LA AUDUBON NATURE INSTITUTE New Orleans, LA New Orleans, LA ATTRACTIONS PHARMACY MUSEUM www.auduboninstitute.org HARRAH’S NEW ORLEANS NEWCOMB ART GALLERY www.pharmacymuseum.org Phone: 800- 774-7394 CASINO www.newcombartgallery.tulane.edu Phone: 504- 565-8027 Aquarium of the Americas www.harrahsneworleans.com 504-865-5328 514 Chartres St. Audubon Park: Phone: 800-427-7247 Woldenberg Art Center New Orleans, LA •Audubon Zoo 8 Canal St. Tulane University THE PRESBYTERE • The wild and Splash Park New Orleans, LA New Orleans, LA 70118 lsm.crt.state.la.us • Golf Course Phone: 504-568-6968 • Clubhouse Café HERMANN GRIMA HOUSE NEW ORLEANS BALLET 751 Chartres St. • Nature Center www.hgghh.org ASSOCIATION (NOBA) New Orleans, LA. Butterfly Garden/Insectarium Phone: 504-525-5661 www,nobadance.com Entergy IMAX Theatre 820 St. Louis St. Phone: 504-522-0996 New Orleans, LA 935 Gravier St. #800 RIVERTOWN THEATERS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS BEAUREGARD-KEYES HOUSE New Orleans, LA www.rivertowntheaters.com www.bkhouse.org JACKSON SQUARE Phone: 504-461-9475 Phone: 504-523-7257 751 Decatur St. THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ 325 Minor St. 1113 Chartres St. New Orleans, LA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK Kenner, LA New Orleans, LA www.nps.gov THE JEFFFERSON PERFORMING Phone: 504-589-4806 ARTS CENTER SOUTHERN REP THEATRE BROADWAY IN NEW ORLEANS 916 North Peters St. www.jeffersonpac.com New Orleans, LA www.southernrep.com www.neworleans.broadway.com Phone: 504-731-4700 Phone: 504-522-6545 Phone: 800-218-7469 6400 Airline Drive NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF 6221 S. Claiborne Ave. # 310 Saenger Theater Metairie, LA 70003 ART (NOMA) New Orleans, LA 70125 1111 Canal Street www.noma.org New Orleans, LA THE JEFFFERSON PERFORMING Phone: 504-658-4100 SOUTHERN FOOD & BEVERAGE ARTS SOCIETY MUSEUM THE CABILDO 1 Collins Diboll Cir., www.jpas.org City Park, New Orleans, LA www.southernfood.org www.lsm.crt.state.la.us Phone: 504-885-2000 Phone: 504-569-0405 Phone: 504-568-6968 (includes BESTHOFF SCULTURE 1118 Clearview Pkwy. GARDEN) 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. 701 Chartres St Metairie, LA New Orleans, LA New Orleans, LA NEW ORLEANS OPERA LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX ASSOCIATION SUMMER LYRIC THEATRE CAFÉ ISTANBUL CARRE AT TULANE UNIVERSITY www.cafeistanbulnola.com www.neworleansopera.com www.lepetittheatre Phone: 504-529-7668 www.summerlyric.tulane.edu Phone: 504-975-0286 504-522-2081 Phone: 504-865-5269 2372 St. Claude Avenue 616 Girod St. #200 616 St. Peter Street New Orleans, LA 104 Dixon Hall New Orleans, LA 70117 New Orleans, LA New Orleans, LA CITY PARK [email protected] THE NEW ORLEANS SHAKESPEARE THE THEATER AT ST. CLAUDE www.neworleanscitypark.com LOUISIANA CHILDREN’S www.theallwayslounge.net Phone: 504-483-9412 FESTIVAL AT TULANE MUSEUM www.neworleansshakespeare. 2240 St Claude Avenue 1 Palm Drive www.lcm.org Box Office Phone: 504-638-6326 New Orleans, LA tulane.edu Phone: 504-523-1357 Phone: 504-865-5105 New Orleans. LA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER 420 Julia Street 1332 Audubon St. New Orleans, LA VOODOO MUSEUM www.cacno.org New Orleans, LA www.voodoomuseum.com Phone: 504-528-3805 MADAME JOHN’S LEGACY THE NOLA PROJECT Phone: 504-680-0128 900 Camp Street www.lsm.crt.state.la.us 724 Dumaine St. New Orleans, LA (Theatre Company) Phone: 504-568-6968 www.nolaproject.com New Orleans, LA CRESCENT CITY FARMERS 632 Dumaine Street Phone: 504-289-2634 New Orleans, LA THE 1850 HOUSE MARKET 2716 Magazine St. www.lsm.crt.state.la.us www.crescentcityfarmersmarket.org MARDI GRAS WORLD New Orleans, LA Phone: 504-524-9118 Phone: 504-861-4488 www.mardigrasworld.com 523 St. Ann St Phone: 504-361-7821 New Orleans, LA 1380 Port of New Orleans Place New Orleans, LA

Source 29 ™ KATRINA Uptown Chabad By RABBI MENDEL RIVKIN

here is no question that tory. The destruction of the Temple Katrina was a most dev- resulted in a long exile. We have astating experience. The been persecuted in every imaginable destruction of a city and a way. Yet, the greatest developments region. The loss of life and property, in Torah have taken place in exile. theT exile of thousands. The loss of The Mishnah, the Talmud, the history and knowing that some Kabbala were all transcribed in the things will never be the same. period of exile. The great teachings Yet, 10 years later, it appears that of Jewish philosophy and the doc- many positive things evolved from trines of Chasidism came in times the storm. Millions of acts of kind- of persecution. Rambam, Rashi and ness. We were all recipients of so so many others taught in times of much goodness from so many. The peril. It can be argued that the worst raising of social awareness and the of times brings out people’s best new groups and non-profits that efforts. are involved in the rebuilding and In addition to the growth of From left, Rabbi Zelig Rivkin, Issac and Bety Btesh and Bluma Rivkin at the reinvention of New Orleans. Eco- Chabad in Metairie and at Tulane, naming ceremony. (Photo by Alan Smason) nomic growth, success of the charter Chabad Uptown has also come out schools, young blood looking to be stronger. A new facility, the Btesh a part of an historical resurgence. A Family Chabad House. A new also expanded into new vistas with political climate with less tolerance Mikvah, the Ringger Center for Chabad of Southern Mississippi for corruption. Greater focus on the Women’s Enrichment. A strong and Chabad of Baton Rouge. environmental issues like wetlands focus on Young Jewish Professional Indeed at Katrina plus ten we and coastal erosion. programming and a range of post have every reason to be proud. There is a parallel in Jewish his- Katrina initiatives. Finally we have

Damage to Jewish New Orleans

$2 M Beth Israel $2 million

Gates of Prayer $1 million $1M Shir Chadash Temple Sinai $750,000 $750,000 $750 K

$500 K $250 K $100 K

30 Crescent City Jewish News ™ KATRINA Katrina Memories By ROSELLE UNGAR maintained a presence in of all of our agencies, synagogues Houston for many months, by and organizations and managed en years ago feels like mid-October we knew it was hundreds of amazing volunteers it was just yesterday. important to let our Jewish who came to help us put our lives At the time Katrina community know we were back together. hit, I was serving as back home and here to help. I In the late fall of 2006 I left the assistant executive director was the first Federation staff JFS to work with the chairman atT Jewish Federation of Greater member to permanently return of the board of a bank to open a New Orleans and can still reflect to New Orleans, joining facility school for children with special with great pride on the work we manager, Keith Ross, back in the needs in Baton Rouge. It was did for our Jewish community in Goldring-Woldenberg Jewish personally and professionally the storm’s aftermath. Community Campus building. a tremendously rewarding For six weeks after August 29, The first floor was gutted, but the experience for me. I also started 2005, I worked with our staff in second and third floors were ok. my own consulting company a conference room at the Jewish There were challenging but allowing me to work with Federation of Houston’s office. rewarding months ahead. Thanks numerous non-profits in the serve as the executive director While each of us was dealing to the incredible generosity of southeast area of Louisiana. It of Jewish Family Service is an with our own post-Katrina issues, Jewish communities across North was an honor to work for and honor and privilege for me. I we knew it was critical to roll America to the UJC’s (now with our Jewish community could not be happier to resume up our sleeves and reconstitute JFNA) emergency campaign, we during this time. Though it was working as a Jewish communal our community. Having gone were able to work with Jewish an emotionally and physically professional. through what was, essentially, a Family Service of Greater stressful time for us all, it was Roselle M. Ungar 21st Century Diaspora, our focus New Orleans ( JFS), allocating so rewarding to be working as a Executive Director became the management of one much-needed financial support Jewish communal professional at Jewish Family Service of of the greatest adversities our to thousands of members of one of the most pivotal times in Greater New Orleans community had ever faced. our Jewish community. We our community’s history. While the Federation collaborated with the leadership The recent opportunity to

*Northshore Jewish Congregation - no major damage.

Chabad (Metairie) Touro $300,000 Anshe Sfard Synagogue $150,000 $150,000 Chabad (Uptown) $100,000

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Beth Israel’s Torah Scrolls Leider of ZAKA. She did not where my car was filled with know anyone else to call who what appeared to be body bags was back in town. Of course I containing the Torah scrolls. agreed to help. Although it had After inspecting the contents been several years since I worked of the bags and determining the with more helicopters flying for Beth Israel, the memories Torahs had melted into a toxic overhead inspecting my progress. and reverence for the traditions goo, I spoke to Jackie and the The adornments were removed and the people are everlasting. I current Rabbi of Beth Israel and cleaned, and the torahs were knew what the Torahs were, and and asked for his permission placed in a large barbeque grill how important a request this was. to dispose of them. I offered cover, which perfectly fit them Not knowing what I would to bury them in my backyard to cover as I placed them in their By Becky Heggelund be handling when undertaking until such time as they could temporary home. They remained this task, I proceeded to the be properly buried in a Jewish there until cemetery workers e had only been makeshift health unit in Metairie cemetery. My husband wanted unearthed them a year later for home a day from for immunization for tetanus and badly to help but his numerous a proper burial at Beth Israel our Katrina another painful vaccine which I medical conditions prevented cemetery. evacuation, when fortunately do not recall. Then him from coming in contact with (Editor’s note: The Torah scrolls I received a call from Jackie I contacted Rabbi Leider and these items. It was too risky. were buried in a plot in the Old Gothard, then the president arranged to pick up the Torahs at Digging a hole four-feet by Beth Israel Cemetery on Frenchmen W Zephyr field. With helicopters six-feet in my backyard seemed Street adjacent to longtime gabbi of Beth Israel, informing me of the sad situation with the flying above me and armed with like a daunting task for any Meyer Lachoff, who died shortly synagogue and of the urgent much determination and my woman. However, determination after being evacuated from the need to get the Torah scrolls little Toyota Camry, I proceeded kicked in again and I completed storm in Baton Rouge.) that had been rescued by Rabbi to the designated location this in a few hours, all the while Katrina_Metairie Chabad By RABBI YOSSIE NEMES would be scattered, many but we now, once again, have would never move back to New young families at our programs n Shabbat, the day Orleans again. and more energy and diversity at before Katrina, we had Yet here we are a mere ten our services. a Kiddush in honor of years later, stronger and more Chabad Hebrew School, the Shloshim (30 days vibrant than ever. This goes for which we started six years ago after the passing) of a holocaust the general community, our with three families, has grown to survivor, Imre Wollner. Many in Jewish community and especially four classes and thirty students, Othe community worked together to in the Metairie corridor so much so, that we’ve outgrown lovingly prepare this Kiddush for that is home to ten Jewish our space and need to find a a man so beloved to all of us. In organizations, Kosher restaurants location other than CJC to host our fridge we had a month’s worth and all kinds of Jewish life, CHS. This does not include of Shmaltz herring, that someone especially for young families. those of our CJC children who entire community, but more had just imported from NY. I was asked to describe the get a full-time Jewish education. than anything I am thankful to No one knew it then, but post Katrina state of the Chabad I am very optimistic about Hashem for all the blessings and within 36 hours our world would Jewish Center. It took some time, our future and the future of the kindness He has shown us! change, our whole community 32 Crescent City Jewish News ™ KATRINA

TenBy Rabbi Edward Years Paul Cohn After The Storm Congregation Temple Sinai

en years following There are many tender menorahs, Shabbat candle sticks, Hurricane Katrina, we memories summoned by the Kiddush cups and mezzuzot. gratefully acknowledge reliving of the horrendous One night, it must have been that our Temple Katrina experience, and one around mid November, we placed Sinai has rebounded: Our fact is beyond debate. If only row upon row of those donated membershipT is replenished, our we had had the wide array of sacred symbols of our people’s religious programs renewed and social media we now take for faith on tables and invited all to re-energized, our classrooms granted, it would have made a take what they needed to meet filled with students at every age world of difference assisting our their family’s circumstances. group, and our recent campaign member families and in locating assessing our specific needs and There was an immediate to renovate our physical building and directly responding to their then generously responding in progression forward to replace successfully completed. All of specific needs. We all did the well orchestrated and empathic the once treasured Jewish objects this said, believe me, the Katrina best we could do under the fashion. which had been lost or destroyed experience - the largest natural circumstances. I cannot say it was ever in the murky flood waters. disaster in America’s history – Katrina was a democratic comfortable to be on the Tears of joy streamed down has by no means been forgotten. disaster managing to create receiving end of this human many smiling faces of all ages! As with the rest of our New painful havoc, dislocation, and equation, but having been there, Their Judaism had not been lost Orleans community, Temple unspeakable loss among both rich we understand all the more nor was their faith confined by Sinai keenly remembers August and poor, and New Orleanians of profoundly our Judaism’s earnest that blue plastic which forlornly 29, 2005 and the succeeding all races and creeds. admonition not to stand idly by covered the roofs of their former misery which followed. As Jewish New Orleanians, of in your neighbor’s need. homes. Now they knew that a We join our neighbors in course, we were never forsaken by I will never forget the large new mezuzah would someday reverently and thankfully our Jewish brothers and sisters. boxes addressed to us from be affixed and their spirits soon observing this milestone of Our national and local Jewish other congregations, large and brightened by the arrival of recovery and in celebrating the agencies and organizations, small, in Texas, the Dakotas, Chanukah in just a few days wellsprings of human compassion congregations of all stripes of Tennessee and Nevada, and time. Never had Chanukah’s and iron-willed tenacity which Jewish observance, and caring elsewhere. When opened, it was literal translation ever meant have brought our city and fellow Jews who just wanted to evident that they had emptied so much: rededication! There its people to this poignant help, all rendered selfless acts of their Synagogue Judaica Shops would indeed be a future! anniversary. Tikun Olom sparing no effort in in order to send us hundreds of

Katrina,By Sandy Lassen Shir Chadash and Me water soaked sanctuary was become one big family as a result filled with all denominations of of Katrina. We have worked was one of the lucky ones: New Orleans returning Jewish together for the good of our little or no Katrina damage residents. I was so proud to community and we have all been other than my back window look around the room and be a made stronger as a result and of my car blowing out, and part of that Yom Kippur at Shir each of us has benefitted from I was fortunate enough to have Chadash. We had lay led services the comraderie. an employer at the time, Jet Blue I and they were so moving! G-d moves in mysterious Airlines, that made sure that we Since Katrina, we have been ways and who knows what were paid even though we weren’t blessed with the most wonderful brought about Katrina, but actually working yet as our rabbinical presence of Rabbi from my perspective, our entire airport had not reopened. and the unbelievable assistance Ethan Linden and his family Jewish Community benefitted But Shir Chadash was of the National Guard under who not only brought us all ultimately, and Shir Chadash not so lucky: flooded by the the leadership of our own, Dr./ together, but also brought in so in particular. We are one of the West Esplanade Canal, most Colonel Ralph Lupin, of beloved many new, young members and fastest growing Conservative of the drywall and all of the memory, we were able to be open we continue to grow, flourish, Synagogues in the country with furniture had to be trashed. for Yom Kippur, and prosper. In fact, all of the very spectacular and innovative Were it not for the presence October of 2005, and our synagogues in New Orleans have programming. and leadership of Will Samuels Source 33 ™ KATRINA

LikeBy RABBI EMERITUS Dreamers DAVID GOLDSTEIN

nly hours before Katrina munications were slowly restored, to but definitely serviceable. Amazing hit, Shannie and I were connect with them. how we take for granted the ordi- informed on our flight Our intermittent trips home - nary. Katrina taught us never again home from Spain that we strictly against the rules of entering to take anything for granted. would not be able to continue on the city and orders to stay away - re- The first Uptown restaurant that Ofrom Atlanta. We asked for more vealed neighborhoods that had been reopened was Flaming Torch, and information from the cockpit and trashed by the storm. We drove we of course patronized it. Then, were told a “catastrophic hurricane” down empty St. Charles Avenue Fortunately as the city began to another and another… was about to strike New Orleans past the closed doors of Touro return to life other rabbis and can- In time my rabbi and cantor directly. Synagogue, and I found myself tors and Jewish professionals were resumed their roles as did all the Imagine the shock. Hurricane? wishing that I might have foreseen quickly on the scene to provide for others. After two months the doors No big deal. We had experienced the disaster and delayed my retire- the Jewish needs of the returning of the Synagogue were once again many. But, catastrophic? That was ment even for a few months so that refugees. open, and the first Shabbat there a new and stunning concept. We those doors might have been open As life began to slowly reassem- was a time never to be forgotten. spent a few days with our chil- as they always were during past ble we were gratified to see busi- A time of deepest reflection and of dren in the Northeast and then hurricanes. nesses return to half-normal. Our sorrow for all that had been lost and proceeded on to Big Sky, Montana, What would I have done? Who refrigerator was shot, contaminated for the suffering of irrecoverable where we have a condo for summer can be sure? Driven or flown in by spoiled food. Everybody’s was. loss and displacement for so many and winter holidays. Never did we from Houston for Shabbatot and We hauled ours to the corner for – and also a time of thanksgiving consider that our mountain retreat for the High Holidays? Yes, I think pick-up where it joined a half dozen and gratitude for the possibility of would become our place of refuge. so. Pitched in in wounded neigh- similarly ruined reefers. Finding a rebuilding. The Psalmist exclaimed Our home. We remained there until borhoods to lend a hand? Yes, I also replacement was an exhausting and when Jerusalem’s exiles returned the beginning of November doing think so. Made sure that Jews had a very frustrating chore for everybody, from Babylonia, “hayinu k’cholmim” – our best to discover the where- place that would receive them? Yes, but after a week we actually had a we too were like dreamers. abouts of friends, and as telecom- absolutely. new one – not exactly to our liking,

Former Tulane president Scott Cowen remembers By SCOTT COWEN needs to be done to secure and build on the progress made to n my view, New Orleans date. As a community, we have is stronger and better the rare opportunity to become today than before the a truly great 21st century city in storm. While Katrina was the decades ahead. To achieve an unfathomable tragedy, there this ambitious goal, we must were silver linings. Katrina I continue to strengthen our flood imposed upon us the obligation protection system, mitigate to reimagine New Orleans. poverty in the city, and further In the last ten years we have invest in children and youth. seen much improvement in If we are successful in these such areas as public education, to our successes has been the areas, we will also see marked flood protection, ethics reform, engagement of the private sector: improvement in our crime rates, neighborhood revitalization, individuals and organization blight, and health outcomes. economic and workforce who rolled up their sleeves I am honored to call myself a development, and our criminal and worked to improve our New Orleanian. We are proud, justice system. New Orleans has city. This increased level of reflect on the resilient and determined to make become a hotbed of innovation community engagement bodes accomplishments of the last the city even better. I have no while developing a culture of well for the future. ten years, we should also doubt that we will. change and progress. The key However, as we rightfully acknowledge that more work 34 Crescent City Jewish News 34 Crescent City Jewish News Diaspora

WHAT THE FLOOD LOOKED LIKE. This rare photo of my home showing most of the first floor covered by five feet of water and toxic waste was taken five days after the flooding began. (Photo by Sidney Smith) DIASPORA: How Katrina Transformed Me into a Better Jew By ALAN SMASON stranded in a foreign city with a both a journalist and a Jew. hapless victim. hile Hurricane cancelled flight back home. My There was an angel looking out I set up my own Google Katrina was an suitcase had enough clothes to for me, as it turned out. Robin Group to communicate directly absolute nightmare last for three days and little else. Sirkin, a volunteer working with fellow New Orleanians, for most New I watched in horror over the with the Jewish Federation of who had been forced to relocate Orleanians, it was my own Internet and on TV in the days Cleveland, was heading up their to other cities like Houston, harrowing and real-life version that followed. News reports relief efforts and she and I made Atlanta, Memphis and ofW a Dickensian tale played out chronicled the plight of those contact almost immediately. Birmingham. And I feverishly in two cities. It was the best of who were stuck at the ravaged She arranged for me to wrote about what was happening. times in Cleveland, and the worst Superdome, had been confined receive much-needed funds and I drafted a story about my of times in New Orleans. without water at the Convention to apply for emergency food plight and submitted it to Unlike the vast majority, I Center or who waited on stamps. I had never before been Cynthia Dettelbach, the editor hadn’t evacuated or had time to rooftops awaiting rescue by on the receiving end of such of the Cleveland Jewish News prepare my home and hearth for helicopter. I was directed to charity. Although I recognized (CJN). To my surprise and the onslaught of a monster storm sites showing satellite views of it was absolutely necessary, I delight, it was chosen as the bearing down on the Louisiana the bowl of the city filled with nevertheless found it repugnant newspaper’s cover story the coastline. I was literally out of water including that of my own for me to accept. And yet I did. following week. town on vacation, expecting to Uptown home. I was shocked I shopped for used clothes The CJN’s CEO, Rob Certner, return on August 29, the infamous to hear Mayor C. Ray Nagin at a nearby thrift store run by vividly remembers meeting me at day the hurricane made landfall. announce on a WWL-TV the National Council of Jewish a community rib burn-off event I was to be in Cleveland but Internet broadcast that the Twin Women. I registered with the for the Solomon Schecter Jewish for a short weekend visit and had Spans of the I-10 were gone. Red Cross as a displaced person. Day School that next Labor Day left the Crescent City that Friday Hurricane Katrina is still I resigned myself to deal with weekend. “My name is Alan for what was intended to be a the costliest natural disaster in these unwelcomed changes, but I Smason,” I began tentatively. “I’m four-day stay. Within two days of United States history and yet it was determined to do something from New Orleans and I need landing, however, I found myself was also a springboard for me as more than to relegate myself a a job.” Source 35 ™ Diaspora

Over the course of the next several weeks the Katrina story was still at the top of the headlines. My valuable work as a contributing reporter continued and I used my contacts to call rabbis and other community leaders stranded hundreds of miles away from home. I turned in several stories, all of which were published. Not long after that I was offered an opportunity to become a full-time member of the CJN staff as a staff reporter, web producer and IT tech. I threw myself into my work and I began to learn the Cleveland environs. Robin Sirkin, who introduced LAKEVIEW LANDMARKS: Sadie’s Boutique, owned by Sadie Gertler was me to her physician husband destroyed by the flooding from the breached 17th Street Canal that Jonathan and their wonderful followed Hurricane Katrina. Inset below: Congregation Beth Israel exterior family of four children, arranged with watermarks, showing where levels of toxic waters persisted for weeks. for me to meet with officials Beth Israel moved to Metairie after the flooding. (Photos by Alan Smason) at Bellfaire JCB, a sprawling campus located in Cleveland informed me that there were two religious school prior to college, to do something as a symbolic Heights and University Heights. sets of dishes provided, just in the I had never before kept kosher. gesture to thank those who had They offered me a dormitory event that I might want to keep The thought had never occurred come to my rescue, I began to style room in one of their empty kosher. to me to do so in New Orleans, a keep kosher that very day. I have buildings outfitted with new Even though I had attended land that boasted treyfe at nearly not stopped keeping a kosher bedspreads, towels, a number of an Orthodox synagogue all my every famous restaurant. home since then. kitchen appliances and cooking life, had become a Bar Mitzvah, Yet, in an attempt to connect Other magnificent gestures utensils. I could stay there as long been a member of a confirmation to an insular community outside followed. A mother whose son as I needed, they assured me. class and had also taught my own and in my own resolve had left for college offered me the A scribbled note on an odd- unfettered use of his automobile shaped piece of cardboard had in order to go back and forth to been placed on the bedspread work and cover stories for the and greeted me upon my CJN. All she asked in return was arrival. Two friends of the Sirkins, David and Jill Gleicher, FIFTH YEAR ANNIVERSARY HAVDALAH: welcomed me to Cleveland and Community rabbis, cantors and cantorial soloist gathered to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the passage of Hurricane Katrina in 2010. (Photos by Alan Smason

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for me to keep the maintenance up on the vehicle so that her son could retrieve it in working condition upon his return during Thanksgiving break. I regularly sent out reports through the Google Group I had founded and kept track via email of recovery efforts for the city and plans for Federation, then ensconced in Houston, to move back to the Goldring- Woldenberg campus in Metairie. I found myself attending Shabbat services on a regular basis at the Green Road Synagogue, one of several Orthodox Jewish houses of worship within walking distance of Bellfaire JCB. I shopped for fresh meat at both of the kosher butchers located within a block of each other and also regularly made purchases at the nearby kosher bakery and the chocolate Prior to making aliyah, the Sirkin family welcomed me as a guest in their succah for the last time at their emporium across the street from University Heights home in 2011. (Photo by Alan Smason) one another. My work kept me busy during the day, conducting interviews grew accustomed and called “the – Tom Benson inside!” Those The Passover seder I and preparing obituaries and Katrina smell.” Much of the were references, of course to the other articles on community vegetation that covered lawns and odious suggestion that the owner spent at the Sirkins members’ lifecycle events. neutral grounds was a peculiar of the New Orleans Saints was When I was finally able to shade of brown and many species threatening to move his team to with their children at come home seven weeks later, of bushes and trees were dead or San Antonio. If nothing else, the I traveled through roadblocks dying. Eerily, the birds had all but scrappy and redoubtable football the table was the most manned by groups of Louisiana disappeared from the trees. Their fans were showing their mettle elaborate, the most fun state troopers, New Orleans plaintive songs would not return for their team and their stubborn Police Department officers and in the mornings for months to and blind allegiance that an NFL and the longest I had National Guardsmen. There were come. championship might not elude no traffic lights, just a plethora of I reclaimed my vehicle that them much longer. ever attended. stop signs at major intersections, had been parked at the airport A tour of my old synagogue, increased, so did my religious which required patience and care since August. There was no Congregation Beth Israel, yielded observance. I learned to wear to traverse. charge, but a rear window had photographs that were later boots and the importance of I witnessed firsthand what been punched out by pieces of published in the CJN. One of the layering clothes. damage the mixture of water a falling roof that had smashed most powerful was that of a mold As the blustery winds increased and toxic waste had done to my other cars. Again, I was lucky. encrusted Yemenite shofar I had and the clouds obscured the sun, former abode. The downstairs The rains from Hurricane used to lead the two previous Ten I received some unsettling news. quarters were full of mold and Katrina and Rita had inundated Commandments Hikes for the The Bellfaire JCB administration mildew and the interior walls the interior carpet, but my car local Boy Scouts council. (See ‘A called to inform me I was no required gutting and remediation. dealership was able to rip out and Tale of Two Shofars,’ page 38) longer being allowed to stay in My extensive book and record replace the carpeting with barely I drove my vehicle back from the dormitory due to a change in collections were both ruined. any persistent smell. New Orleans, a city of a half heart and their plans to construct My expensive sound and home I returned to Cleveland about million souls pre-Katrina that a new building on the campus. I entertainment system was reduced 48 hours later and went back to now claimed a total population of was mortified. to rubble. Even my wedding work, planning my next return 80,000. My new home in Greater Again my angel provided. A album and priceless photographs trip at Thanksgiving, about Cleveland boasted a Jewish former resident of Cleveland of my son and deceased wife were a month later. That second population of that exact same whose mother had been placed destroyed. I learned an invaluable trip down to the city was also number. in a nearby Jewish assisted living lesson – that one can never truly interesting, because so little By my estimation, I had seen facility wanted someone to rent own possessions, that they are had changed. The front lawns significant snowfalls perhaps five her home, a four-bedroom home all destined to be passed on or and sidewalks were still strewn times previously. I had never lived in University Heights, a few destroyed. with refrigerators that were in a locale where snow didn’t blocks away from the Sirkins There was a stillness in the being scrapped. Many were melt away in a few hours. That and the Gleichers. The home was air and a lingering odor of sealed with duct tape and most changed forever when I lived right out of the 1950s with wood death that alarmed visitors, but bore legends like “Do not open in Cleveland. As the snowfall paneling and wooden floors to which residents eventually Source 37 Diaspora

its most prominent features. I the table was the most elaborate, called it the “Leave It to Beaver” the most fun and the longest house. Best of all, it contained a I had ever attended. I walked connected garage. back to my home at 1:30 a.m. The neighborhood was 90% Somehow, though, it all seemed Jewish and ironically was situated so perfect. behind John Carroll University, a As months of work continued, well known Catholic University. the skies predictably allowed Virtually no one in the more sunshine to pass through neighborhood drove on Shabbat. and the snow eventually melted All families walked to and from away. New Orleans was still their shuls within a massive eruv going through the painful process (enclosure) maintained every of recovery, but now also dealing week by a community committee with a tightly contested mayoral composed of volunteers. I began race between the incumbent and attending Friday night and the man who would be elected Shabbat morning services on a four years later. regular basis, except for those But despite the rancor between weeks when I flew down to New political factions, I always knew I Orleans to chart progress on would be returning to the city of repairs to my home. my birth and the place wherein When I moved into the home, my heart resides. I shared space initially with When an opportunity to return another Jewish victim from New as a writer and editor availed itself, Orleans. He was so shocked by I leapt at it and my work as a the storm and the circumstances Jewish journalist has continued to that had blown him northward this day. I still keep a kosher home that he elected to permanently and my work with the Crescent move to Cleveland. He left about City Jewish News that began three weeks later. Meanwhile, in 2010 has blossomed from a I was determined to bring the website portal into annual print home was up to kosher standards. editions of SOURCE and The Best A young rabbi and mashgiach of the Crescent City Jewish News. (kosher supervisor) who lived My connection to the American nearby, inspected the premises Jewish Press Association has and gave me his approval. increased substantially as an While progress toward recovery executive board member and my inched along at a snail’s pace association with the Press Club Top: The moldy shofar was still filled with muck at the time it was in New Orleans, activities in of New Orleans has made us an photographed at Congregation Beth Israel in 2005. Bottom: Beth Israel Cleveland continued at full speed. award-winning publication for president Jackie Gothard and Gates of Prayer Rabbi Robert Loewy accept Football season in Cleveland two years in a row. the replacement shofar, originally purchased in Israel, and sent from concluded as Mardi Gras activities As a postscript, I traveled by Beachwood, Ohio by the Silver family. (Photos by Alan Smason) began to take shape in New invitation of the State of Israel Orleans. My work as a narrator in 2014 for the first time as part and manuscript writer for several of the first-ever Jewish Media Mardi Gras balls and announcer Summit in Jerusalem. For my at Gallier Hall for parades first night there, I stayed at the A Tale of Two Shofars required several trips home to the new home of Robin and Jonathan he mold and mildew encrusted Yemenite shofar was city, whereupon I would hang up Sirkin, who had made aliyah four photographed at the devastated Congregation Beth Israel my tails or tuxedo and board a years previously. Friday night I syanagogue by CCJN editor Alan Smason in November late afternoon plane on Sunday in spent Shabbat dinner with the of 2005 and was published as part of a photo spread in a order to be at work on Monday at Gleichers in their home two January edition of the Cleveland Jewish News. The image spurred the CJN offices in Beachwood. blocks away. They had also made the Eric Silver family of Beachwood, Ohio to send an exact replace- But for those weekends that aliyah with their son Roni in 2009, T ment shofar they had purchased in Israel. That shofar was person- Mardi Gras did not take me a year before the Sirkins. ally flown to New Orleans by Smason along with a letter from the away, I found myself transported Saturday afternoon after three Silver children – David, Robyn and Lindsay and their photo. into Shabbat worship, walking to services had concluded, I was The shofar, photo and letter were presented to Congregation Beth synagogue and enjoying Friday back at the Sirkins enjoying Israel president Jackie Gothard, who accepted them with Gates of nights and Saturday afternoons a festive meal that concluded Prayer Rabbi Robert Loewy. Since 2006, that shofar has been used at the Gleichers, the Sirkins or with fresh slices of juicy avatiah at the synagogue at Rosh Hashanah and has been used to lead more other neighbors. It was the first (watermelon) and I marveled at than Ten Commandments Hikes with the local Boy Scouts council. time I had experienced what a how a storm in 2005 had made shtetl life might be like. me into both a victim and a Meanwhile, David Silver graduated from Tulane University in 2015 The Passover seder I spent at better Jew. and is now a student at Tulane University School of Medicine. the Sirkins with their children at

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