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Introduction 4

Candlelighting Times 5

New Orleans Tricentennial Timeline 6

Holidays at a Glance 12

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NOLA Entertainment 32

Baton Rouge 34

Touro Foundation 35

Arnie Fielkow Interview 36

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Crescent City Jewish News • SOURCE • 2017 3 INTRODUCTION 5478-5778 The City That Care Forgot Didn’t Forget To Care or many of you, this may be the first copy of one of the print publications of e Best of the Crescent City Jewish News that you Fwill receive in your mailbox. e Crescent City Jewish News is a website (http://www.crescentci- tyjewishnews.com), which was created expressly for the benefit of the Jewish community of New Orleans seven years ago. Twice a year we publish two distinctly different print media. e first is this one: SOURCE, a community resource guide that lists invaluable information about Jewish New Orleans, including all synagogues, religious institutions and Jewish organizations. e second is the Best of the CCJN’s Yearbook, which recounts previously published articles from the website along with all of the area’s obituaries from the past calendar year. at will be arriving in your home in late winter or early spring. is year we celebrate the tricentennial of the City of New Orleans and we are proud to be a part of that celebration. As you can see from our Tri- centennial Timeline (pages 6-11), Jews have been a part of the city practically from its inception. What the timeline does not show is that Jews have contributed mightily to the city’s artistic endeavors and have been a major component of the city’s civic leadership for centuries. Indeed, while the glory of New Orleans as the nation’s largest port may have faded, the Jewish community has continued to thrive and contribute in meaningful ways. Jews have always provided for their own down- trodden and to take care of those who deserve its care. Tzedakah (charity) has been a cornerstone of our faith. It has been our blessed duty throughout the time our community members have been here to take care of our own needy, among them the sick and indigent. Religious authorities view the Image courtesy City of New Orleans (http://2018nola.com). tradition of saving a life as being more paramount than observing mitzvot (Commandments). In played since its inception in 1852. our previous issues are posted online. You can Leviticus 19:16, we are are mandated not to “stand We hope you will enjoy our stories on Touro read them at our About link online. Also, our free idly by the blood of your neighbor” and in the Infirmary, the Touro Foundation and our sidebar newsletter goes out once a week via email to keep Talmud we are further enjoined “whoever saves a on St. Charles General (“e Not Exactly Jewish you informed. Sign up today at www.crescentci- life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world.” Hospital at Was”). tyjewishnews.com/subscribe. Much of this informs us as Jews to our zealous As always, we hope you will also support our May this be a year of sweetness and health. attachment to the principles found in medicine. advertisers who make this publication and our Much of our SOURCE 5778 revolves about the website possible. And don’t forget, to read full Our very best, Jewish practice of medicine and the important articles and keep informed, please check out our Alan Smason, Editor part our local Jewish hospital, Touro Infirmary, has website on a daily or at least weekly basis. All of Arlene S. Wieder, Advertising and Marketing

4 Crescent City Jewish News • SOURCE 5778 CANDLELIGHTING TIMES

SEPTEMBER MARCH 1 Starts 7:05 p.m. • 2 Ends 7:57 p.m. 2 Starts 5:42 p.m. • 3 Ends 6:37 p.m. 8 Starts 6:56 p.m. • 9 Ends 7:49 p.m. 9 Starts 5:47 p.m. • 10 Ends 6:41 p.m. 15 Starts 6:47 p.m. • 16 Ends 7:40 p.m. 16 Starts 6:51 p.m. • 17 Ends 7:46 p.m. Rosh Hashanah: 23 Starts 6:56 p.m. • 24 Ends 7:50 p.m. 20 Starts 6:41 p.m. • 22 Ends 6:39 p.m. 30 Starts 7:00 p.m. • 31 Ends 7:54 p.m. 22 Starts 6:39 p.m. • 23 Ends 7:31 p.m. Yom Kippur/Shabbat: 29 Starts 6:30 p.m. • 30 Ends 7:22 p.m. APRIL 6 Starts 7:04 p.m. • 7 Ends 7:59 p.m. 13 Starts 7:09 p.m. • 14 Ends 8:04 p.m. OCTOBER 20 Starts 7:13 p.m. • 21 Ends 8:09 p.m. 6 Starts 6:22 p.m. • 7 Ends 7:14 p.m. 27 Starts 7:17 p.m. • 28 Ends 8:14 p.m. 13 Starts 6:14 p.m. • 14 Ends 7:06 p.m. 20 Starts 6:06 p.m. • 21 Ends 6:59 p.m. 27 Starts 5:59 p.m. • 28 Ends 6:53 p.m. MAY 4 Starts 7:22 p.m. • 5 Ends 8:19 p.m. 11 Starts 7:26 p.m. • 12 Ends 8:24 p.m. NOVEMBER 18 Starts 7:31 p.m. • 19 Ends 8:29 p.m. 3 Starts 5:54 p.m. • 4 Ends 6:48 p.m. 25 Starts 7:35 p.m. • 26 Ends 8:34 p.m. 10 Starts 4:49 p.m. • 11 Ends 5:44 p.m. 17 Starts 4:45 p.m. • 18 Ends 5:41 p.m. 24 Starts 4:43 p.m. • 25 Ends 5:39 p.m. JUNE 1 Starts 7:39 p.m. • 2 Ends 8:38 p.m. 8 Starts 7:42 p.m. • 9 Ends 8:42 p.m. DECEMBER 15 Starts 7:45 p.m. • 16 Ends 8:44 p.m. 1 Starts 4:42 p.m. • 2 Ends 5:39 p.m. 22 Starts 7:47 p.m. • 23 Ends 8:46 p.m. 8 Starts 4:43 p.m. • 9 Ends 5:40 p.m. 29 Starts 7:48 p.m. • 30 Ends 8:47 p.m. 15 Starts 4:45 p.m. • 16 Ends 5:42 p.m. 22 Starts 4:48 p.m. • 23 Ends 5:45 p.m. 29 Starts 4:52 p.m. • 30 Ends 5:50 p.m. JULY 6 Starts 7:47 p.m. • 7 Ends 8:46 p.m. 13 Starts 7:46 p.m. • 14 Ends 8:44 p.m. JANUARY 20 Starts 7:43 p.m. • 21 Ends 8:40 p.m. 5 Starts 4:57 p.m. • 6 Ends 5:54 p.m. 27 Starts 7:39 p.m. • 28 Ends 8:35 p.m. 12 Starts 5:03 p.m. • 13 Ends 6:00 p.m. 19 Starts 5:09 p.m. • 20 Ends 6:05 p.m. 26 Starts 5:15 p.m. • 27 Ends 6:11 p.m. AUGUST 3 Starts 7:34 p.m. • 4 Ends 8:30 p.m. 10 Starts 7:28 p.m. • 11 Ends 8:23 p.m. FEBRUARY 17 Starts 7:21 p.m. • 18 Ends 8:16 p.m. 2 Starts 5:21 p.m. • 3 Ends 6:16 p.m. 24 Starts 7:14 p.m. • 25 Ends 8:08 p.m. 9 Starts 5:27 p.m. • 10 Ends 6:22 p.m. 16 Starts 5:32 p.m. • 17 Ends 6:27 p.m. 23 Starts 5:37 p.m. • 24 Ends 6:32 p.m.

Crescent City Jewish News • SOURCE 5778 5 TRICENTENNIAL TIMELINE

1718 1724 1769 1803 Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Jews begin to arrive into New The premiere New Orleans Napoleon sells Louisiana (New Bienville, founds the City of New Orleans in the mid-1700s. They Jewish family, the Monsantos, France) and all lands west of the Orleans on May 7, 1718. came independent with creative are expelled from New Orleans Mississippi to the United States minds seeking opportunities after Louisiana is ceded to Spain. for $15 million. New Orleans as they left their previously Their money and property are becomes the busiest port and established lives behind. The conﬁ scated, but they return the third largest city in the Code Noir forbids Jews from a few years later. Spanish nascent nation. living in the colony, but it architects, responsible for much is largely ignored and Jews of the “French” Quarter, maintain prosper. power until 1803, when they return the land to Napoleon.

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CIRCA 1827 1828 1850 1852 First New Orleans Jewish Congregation Gates of Mercy Judah Touro, a New England Judah Touro started Touro Congregation–Gates of was chartered. Jew who was a Dutch Inﬁ rmary that eventually Mercy–Isaac Solis couldn’t ﬁ nd decendent, funded the became one of the biggest unleavened bread for Pesach Touro Synagogue. hospitals in New Orleans. and wanted to change the lack Congregation Gates of Prayer of Judaism in the area. opened on Jackson Ave.

Crescent City Jewish News • SOURCE 5778 7 TRICENTENNIAL TIMELINE

1857 1904 1905 1906 1914 Jews locate along the Dryades Communities began to merge Beth Israel President I.L. Haskel Beth Israel open the new Street corridor and establish with Tememe Derech and publish an appeal in the Jewish synagogue in time for the High an Orthodox congregation created one single Orthodox Ledger stating both Orthodox Holy Days. named Tememe Derech, congregation that is still in and Reform should come Beth Israel was considered meaning “The Right Way.” existence today known as Beth together and establish an to be the largest Orthodox During this time many small Israel . Orthodox synagogue. congregation in the South. Orthodox congregations were formed such as the Galitzianer congregation Chevra Thilim, a Litvak congregation without a synagogue – Chevra Mikve Israel –and a Lithuanian Chasidic congregation called Anshe Sfard.

Temple Sinai founded in 1870 Circa 1875

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1915 1924 1925 1928 Jewish population along the Beth Israel builds new Architect Weil’s ﬁ rm is also Temple Sinai dedicates new Dryades Street corridor increases synagogue designed by hired to build the large building (also designed by Emile to a rumored 3,500. architect Emile Weil on the synagogue for Congregation Weil Architects) on the corner of original site. Anshe Sfard that still stands at Calhoun Street and St. Charles 2230 Carondelet Street. Avenue.

Jewish Widows and Orphans Home Circa 1900

Crescent City Jewish News • SOURCE 5778 9 TRICENTENNIAL TIMELINE

1948 1955 1971  1975 1999 Chevra Thilim built a new Chevra Thilim Board of Directors Beth Israel opened in the Chevra Thilim, now a synagogue at the corner of voted to move towards mixed Lakeview neighborhood. In Conservative congregation, South Claiborne and seating which led to the Louisiana November of 1975 shluchim and Tikvat Shalom reunite and Jena Streets. Supreme Court Case of Katz v. (emisarries) Rabbi Zelig Rivkin form Shir Chadash. Construction Singerman. Orthodox rabbis from and Bluma Rivkin arrive in is completed for Gerson Katz around the country ﬁ led aﬃ davits New Orleans and establish the Chabad Center in Metairie. before the Louisiana Supreme Chabad Lubavitch of Louisiana Court stating “is not contrary near the Tulane University to Orthodox Jewish forms and campus. ceremonies.” Eventually, the court overturned the lower court’s decision and the congregation splits with members for mixed seating forming the Conservative Congregation of New Orleans, later renamed Tikvat Shalom, which moves to Metairie.

Dedicated on New Year’s Day, 1909, Emile Weil designed Touro Synagogue when he was 29.

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2005 POSTKATRINA Hurricane Katrina related fl ooding Chabad Lubavitch builds Rohr causes $2 million damage to Chabad Student Center at Tulane Beth Israel, $1 million to Gates of University and rebuilds Chabad Prayer and $750K to Shir Chadash. House next door. Beth Israel Temple Sinai sustains $750K in meets in chapel at rear of Gates roof, wind and water damage to of Prayer facility for six years, its structure. Beth Israel buries eventually buying land and its seven Torah scrolls and other rebuilding next door in 2012 as religious artifacts. Following a synagogue and community evacuation, nearly 25% of the center. Jewish population does not return. Using incentives, Jewish Federation off ers newcomers benefi ts to move to the city, enticing 2,000 to move to the Crescent City to aid in rebuilding.

Congregation Beth Israel (top) and Congregation Gates of Prayer, neighbors in Metairie.

Crescent City Jewish News • SOURCE 5778 11 HOLIDAYS AT A GLANCE

SHABBAT SHEMINI ATZERET Celebrated Fridays at sundown to commemorate G-d’s day of rest after six Eighth Day of Assembly days of creation. Traditions include lighting candles, drinking wine and eating Celebrated the day after Succot and thus sometimes considered an extension challah (braided bread). Havdallah, the farewell ceremony to Shabbat, takes of that holiday. Marks the fi rst time tefi llat geshem (prayer for rain) is recited place upon the appearance of three stars in the Saturday night sky and is during services, a practice that continues until Pesach. 22 Tishrei celebrated by lighting a braided candle. SIMCHAT TORAH ROSH HASHANAH Rejoicing for the Torah Jewish New Year Celebrates the completion of the annual Torah-reading cycle. After fi nishing Festive celebration during which individuals contemplate past, present and the last words of Devarim (Deuteronomy), the Torah is joyously paraded seven future actions. Traditional foods include round challah and apples with honey, times around the synagogue. e new cycle begins immediately with a reading symbolizing wholeness and sweetness for the new year. Commences the Ten from Bereshit (Genesis). 23 Tishrei Days of Awe, which culminate on Yom Kippur. 1-2 Tishrei CHANUKAH YOM KIPPUR Festival of Lights Day of Atonement Eight-day holiday commemorating the Jewish victory over the Syrians and Holiest day of the Jewish year. rough fasting and prayer, Jews refl ect upon the miracle of the rededication of the Temple, when oil meant to last for one their relationships with other people and with G-d. Atoning for wrongdoings day burned for eight. Celebrated by lighting candles in a chanukiah (a nine- and failures to take the right actions. e sounding of the shofar (ram’s horn) branched candelabrum), eating potato latkes, playing with dreidels (spinning signals the end of the holiday. 10 Tishrei tops) and giving money or gifts. 25 Kishev- 2 Tevet SUCCOT TU B’SHEVAT Festival of Booths New Year of Trees Commemorates the fulfi llment of G-d’s promise to bring the Israelites to the Biblical in origin, a holiday that celebrates springtime renewal and growth. Promised Land after 40 years of wandering. Many people build a succah Traditions include eating fruit and planting trees. 15 Shevat (booth), a temporary structure with a roof made of branches, modeled after the huts constructed in the desert. Also celebrated with shaking of the lulav (assemblage of palm, willow and myrtle branches) and etrog (a lemon-like fruit). 15-21 Tishrei

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PURIM YOM HAATZMAUT Feast of Lots Israel Independence Day Joyous holiday commemorating the rescue of the Jews by Queen Esther and On May 14, 1948, Israel was declared an independent state. Many Jews her uncle Mordecai from the evil Haman. Traditions include parties, dances, worldwide celebrate with parades, festivals and donations to Jewish charities. gift-giving and eating hamantaschen (3-cornered fruit fi lled pastries). Some 5 Iyar also fast before Purim to remember the three-day fast Esther requested of the Jews of Persia. 14 Adar LAG B’OMER Thirty-Third Day of Omer PASSOVER One-day suspension of the traditional mourning period during Sefi rat Celebrates the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. At the seder HaOmer. On this day, a plague affl icting Rabbi Akiva’s students ceased. (service and festive meal), the Haggadah (collection of texts and commentar- Also commemorates Bar Kochba’s recapture of Jerusalem from the Romans. ies on the Exodus) is read and symbolic foods are eaten. In remembrance of Celebrated with picnics and nature outings. 18 Iyar the departure of the Israelites, who could not wait for their bread to rise before fl eeing, matzoh (unleavened bread) is eaten for the eight days of Passover. SHAVUOT 15-22 Nissan Festival of Weeks Celebrated the day after Sefi rat HaOmer ends to commemorate the giving SEFIRAT HAOMER of the Torah at Sinai and the spring harvest. Traditionally, Jews read the Ten Counting of the Omer Commandments and the Book of Ruth and eat dairy products. Religious Seven-week period that begins the second night of Pesach and ends at school confi rmation often takes place at this time. 6-7 Sivan Shavuot. e 32 mourning days during this time commemorate the deaths of Rabbi Akiva’s students. Traditionally weddings, festivities and haircuts are FAST OF TAMMUZ prohibited during this time. 16 Nissan - 5 Sivan Fast from dawn until nightfall commemorating the day Moses broke the fi rst Tablets of the Covenant because the Israelites made the Golden Calf. Also YOM HASHOAH marks the beginning of the siege on Jerusalem before its destruction. Begins Holocaust Remembrance Day the ree Weeks, a mourning period ending at Tisha B’Av. 17 Tammuz. Day chosen by the Israeli Knesset in 1951 to mourn the millions killed in the Holocaust. Often commemorated with speeches by survivors and the reading TISHA B’AV of names. In Israel, a siren’s blast allows collective remembrance in a moment Ninth Day of Av of silence. 27 Nissan Day of fasting and mourning commemorating the destruction of the First and Second Temples, both of which took place on the ninth of Av. e Book YOM HAZIKARON of Lamentations is read, and some conduct services sitting on the fl oor. 9 Av Martyr and Heroes’Memorial Day Day of remembrance for all who sacrifi ced themselves for the state of Israel. TU B’AV Public observances include the lighting of yahrzeit (memorial) candles, visit- Coming after three weeks of sadness, Tu B’Av marks one of the happiest days ing graves and reciting psalms. In Israel, sirens blast once in the morning and on the Jewish calendar. In modern times it has become a day dedicated to then in the evening to begin Yom HaAtzmaut, Israel Independence Day. 4 love and in many ways a Jewish version of Valentine’s Day. It is a day highly Iyar coveted for weddings. 15 Av

JEWISH HOLIDAYS • 5778 • 2017-2018

Rosh Hashanah September 21-22, 2017 Yom HaShoah April 12, 2018 Yom Kippur September 30, 2017 Yom HaZikaron April 19, 2018 Succot October 5, 2017 Yom HaAztmaut April 20, 2018 Shemini Atzeret October 12, 2017 Lag B’Omer May 3, 2018 Simchat Torah October 13, 2017 Yom Yerushalayim May 13, 2018 Chanukah December 13, 2017 Shavuot May 20-21, 2018 Tu B’Shevat January 31, 2018 Fast of Tammuz June 30, 2018 Purim March 1, 2018 Tisha B’Av July 21, 2018 Passover March 31-April 7, 2018 Tu B’Av July 27, 2018 *Holidays begin at sundown on the evening before the day indicated.

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ARTS & CULTURE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA *(JEWISH) 1010 Common Street, Suite 2120 New Orleans, LA 70112 *GOLDRING/WOLDENBERG INSTITUTE OF Phone/Fax: 504-523-6530 SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE Email: [email protected] Website: www. lpomusic.com 4915 1-55 North Suite 100A LE PETIT THÉÂTRE DU VIEUX CARRÉ Jackson, MS 39236 Music Director: Carlos Miguel Prieto 616 St. Peter Street Phone: 601-362-6357 New Orleans, LA 70116 Formed in 1991, the Louisiana Philharmonic Email: [email protected] Phone: 504-522-2081 Orchestra is the oldest full-time musician-gov- Website: http://www.isjl.org Email: [email protected] erned and collaboratively operated orchestra in Contact: Macy B. Hart, President Website: www.lepetittheatre.com the United States. The LPO offers a full 36-week The Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jew- season with more than 120 performances, includ- New Orleans’ most historic playhouse, Le Petit ish Life was established in 1986 to promote Judaism ing classics, light classics, pops, education, family, Théâtre Du Vieux Carré has played an important through innovative programs and shared resources. park and community engagement concerts in role in our nation’s theatrical history since 1916. The ISJL also provides historic preservation and com- New Orleans and across multi-parish areas. Located just off of Jackson Square, we have called munity engagement throughout the South. our current stage home since 1922. As we mark our *MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN *JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE 101st anniversary season, we invite you to join us in JEWISH EXPERIENCE P.O. Box 1989 celebrating with an array of classics and new works, 818 Howard Street Fort Lee, NJ 07024 stirring dramas, and giddy comedies. This 2017-2018 New Orleans, LA 70113 Phone: 201-242-9460 season features Once on this Island, The Last Five Email: [email protected] Fax: 201-363-9241 Years, A Streetcar Named Desire, An Act of God, and Director: Kenneth Hoffman Email: [email protected] Crowns. Season and single tickets are now available! Closed since 2012 in Utica, MS the ISJL an- Website: http://jbstv.org *LIMMUDFEST NEW ORLEANS nounced the re-opening of this museum in abbi Mark S. Golub JCC Uptown (5342 St Charles Ave) 2019 at its new location in New Orleans. When The Jewish Broadcasting Service (JBS) is a TV broad- Website: www.limmudnola.org re-established visitors will learn about the unique caster based in Fort Lee, NJ. It’s a Jewish “PBS-style” March 16-18, 2018 stories of Southern Jewry. non-profi t channel featuring news and entertainment. This biennial festival is held to celebrate the A variety of English programs including news from Jewish New Orleans community, its culture, arts Israel, call-in programs, Jewish Studies, 92nd Street and history. This weekend festival will include Y, fi lms & other Jewish TV programming. You can the offi cial dedication of the newly renovated watch the channel online via the Jewish Broadcasting Jewish Community Center facilities. Classes and Service (JBS) live stream and its collection of videos. programs will be developed to make learners of all participants during this two day event.

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NEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION *CAFÉ DU MONDE COFFEE STANDS 935 Gravier Street, Suite 1940 Website: www.cafedumonde.com New Orleans, LA 70112 3 KOSHER LOCATIONS under the su- Phone: 504-529-2278 pervision by Rabbi Gabriel Greenberg Box Office: 504.529.3000 Website: neworleansopera.org FRENCH MARKET CHATEAU New Orleans Opera Association is 800 Decatur Street DRUGS & GIFTS celebrating their diamond jubilee-- 70116 New Orleans 75th season. NOOA has one of Phone: 504-525-4544 the largest opera companies in the Hours: 24 hours a day Unexpected Gulf South. NOOA carries on the Only closed on 12/25 operatic tradition of “America’s First CLEARVIEW AREA Elegance City of Opera,” where operas have 4700 Veterans Boulevard been part of the musical lifeblood of 3544 West Esplanade 70002 Metairie Between Severn and the city since the 18th century. This Phone: 504-888-9770 Hessmer Avenue season we are presenting Maria De Hours: Sun-Thur 6:00 AM - 11:00 PM Buenos Aires, Cavalleria Rusticana & Fri-Sat 6:00 AM - 1:00 AM Metairie, LA 70002 Pagliacci, Orpheus in the Under- Drive Thru Available 889-2300 world, Tabasco, Champion, and The Medium. For more information and LAKESIDE MALL M-F 9am-7pm Sat 9am-5pm tickets, call 504-529-3000 or visit 3301 Veterans Boulevard, Suite 104 neworleansopera.org. 70002 Metairie FREE GIFT WRAP Phone: 504-834-8694 WYES TV Hours: Mon-Fri 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM 916 Navarre Avenue Sat 8:00 AM – 9:00 PM New Orleans, LA 70124 Sun 11:00 AM -6:00 pm Phone: 504-486-5511 Website: www.wyes.org *CASABLANCA RESTAURANT For over 55 years, WYES is a PBS 3030 Severn Avenue member station serving New Or- Metairie, LA 70002 leans & the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Phone: 504-888-2209 The station is dedicated to inform, Website: www.Kosherneworleans.com teach, illuminate, entertain and Email: [email protected] inspire our community. Kosher Supervision by LA. Kashrut Committee. RESTAURANTS/ BAKERY/ *CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL’S MEETING ROOM/EVENT HALL CATERING/ HALLS 4004 W. Esplanade Avenue *(KOSHER) Metairie, LA 70002 ANNA GIL **(ISRAELI INFLUENCED) Phone: 504-454-5080 ANNA GIL Fax: 504-883-8010 FINE ARTIST Email: offi[email protected] FINE ARTIST Website: www.bethisraelnola.com Contact: Rabbi David Posternock STUDIO OPEN Congregation Beth Israel is available STUDIOBY APPOINTMENT OPEN “free” to the community for use by APOLLINE RESTAURANT civic, neighborhood, and service BY APPOINTMENT organizations. We have technology for 4729 Magazine Street business meetings with video confer- WWW.ANNAGIL.COM New Orleans, LA 70115 encing, high definition movie display, Phone: 504-894-8881 versatile space for your group or orga- Website: https://www.apollinerestaurant.com nization’s needs and much more. Hours: Sun 10 AM- 2 PM / 5:30 PM- 9:30 PM WWW.ANNAGIL.COM Tues-Thur 11 AM- 2 PM / 5:30 PM- 9:30 PM DICKIE BRENNAN’S STEAKHOUSE Fri 11 AM – 2 PM / 5:30 PM – 10:30 PM 716 Ibervlle Street Sat 10 AM – 2 PM / 5:30 PM -10:30 PM New Orleans, LA 70130 Located in a charming double shot- Phone: 504-522-2467 gun restaurant APOLLINE’S menu Email: [email protected] Open offers exquisite recipes that include Website: dickiebrennanssteakhouse.com a local fare of ingredients blended with global flavors. To complement DICKIE BRENNAN’S TABLEAU Inspiring Academics Houses your brunch or dinner selections, 616 St. Peter Street • New Orleans, LA 70116 Jewish Values Apolline’s staff can suggest custom Phone: 504-934-3463 Enrolling 2018-2019 Email: [email protected] Community mixed drinks or compatible wines. Pre-K through 6th Grade Tuesday, October 10 at 9:30 am selection. Fit Nola Menu options! Website: www.TableauFrenchQuarter.com Tuesday, October 24 at 9:30 am **DORIS METROPOLIAN BOURBON HOUSE Tuesday, November 7 at 6:00 pm 144 Bourbon Street 620 Chartres Street New Orleans, LA 70130 New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: 504-267-3500 For more information and to schedule your visit Phone: 504-934-3463 contact Lauren at Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] [email protected] or 504.887.4091 Website: www.bourbonhouse.com Website: www.dorismetropolian.com

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KENNY & ZIGGY’S DELI 2327 Post Oak Boulevard Houston, Texas 77056 Phone: 713-871-8883 Fax: 713-871-8884 Email: [email protected] Website: kennyandziggys.com Contact: Ziggy Gruber MARDI GRAS ZONE LAKEVIEW BREW COFFEE CAFE 2706 Royal Street Consider Kenny & Ziggy’s the solution to your 5606 Canal Boulevard New Orleans, LA 70117 cravings for outstanding corned beef Reubens, New Orleans, LA 70124 Phone: 504-947-8787 pastrami sandwiches, and homemade matzo ball Phone: 504-483-7001 Websites: mardigraszonesupermarket.net soup. The most authentic, soul-satisfying Jewish Email: [email protected] mardigraszone.com comfort classics are now available to be shipped Website: www.lakeviewbrew.com directly to your door via Houston. The in-house café offers homemade salads, fresh Hours: M-Fri (7am–8pm) and delicious home-baked breads, hand tossed *KOSHER CAJUN NEW YORK DELI & GROCERY Sat (7am-6pm) 20” brick oven pizza, and classic New Orleans 3519 Severn Avenue Sun (7am-3pm) deli food. Additionally--great selection and inven- Metairie, LA 70002 Our casual cafe offers gourmet coffees and a tory of grocery items including KOSHER, interna- Phone: 504-888-2010 wide range of pastries and baked in-house des- tional foods, dairy, vegetarian, gluten-free, and Website: www.koshercajun.com serts. Additionally, our menu contains specialty Organic. 100% Cajun (trademark) local produce Hours: Mon -Thurs 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM sandwiches, salads and soups. Serving breakfast, and farm fresh eggs available daily. Fri & Sun 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM lunch, and dinner with specials daily. Additional Kosher Supervision by LA. Kashrut Committee brunch menu offered on Saturday & Sunday. PALACE CAFÉ 605 Canal Street Enjoy our dine-in restaurant, or order Your meat NOW SERVING BLOODY MARYS, MIMOSAS, New Orleans, LA 70130 to carry out. Kosher Cajun is your one stop for BEER, WINE and more. Free high-speed WiFi ac- Phone: 504-523-1661 all your Kosher shopping! Full service grocery cess for our customers. CATERING AVAILABLE! Website: www.palacecafe.com store with a hugh selection of Wines and Liquors. Hours: Mon-Fri 8:00 AM - 10:00 PM CATERING AVAILABLE. Gift baskets, Judaica and Sat & Sun 10:30 AM–10:00 PM more!

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*WAFFLES ON MAPLE (Uptown) 7112 Maple Street New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-304-2662 Website: www.wafflesonmaple.com Hours: Sun–Thurs 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Fri – 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM CLOSED SATURDAYS *RIMON Kosher Supervision: LA. Kashrut Committee 912 Broadway Street Established in 2014, Waffles on Maple New Orleans, LA 70118 has become a New Orleans favorite Phone: 504-232-0758 among locals and visitors alike. We Email: [email protected] specialize in gourmet waffles, pizza, Website: rimontulanehillel.com paninis, crepes and so much more. Rimon is a kosher, farm-to-table Whether it’s sweet or savory–you will restaurant located inside the gor- not be disappointed. Specialized geous Hillel building on Tulane’s drinks include coffees, teas, smoothies campus. Led by Chef Daniel Esses, & milkshakes. Check us out on Face- the Rimon team serves up seasonal, book. CATERING AVAILABLE. local, and delicious food to Tulane students, professors, and members of BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL the greater New Orleans community. BRYAN SUBARU Rimon’s eclectic menu features cuisine 8305 Airline Drive from all over the world, focusing on Metairie, LA 70003 Israeli and Korean flavors. To accom- Phone: 888-629-2768 modate students and busy locals, the Website: www.bryansubaru.com kitchen serves grab-and-go items as Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM well as prepared meals to go. We are Sat 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM also available for catering, both on CLOSED SUNDAYS and off site. We stock a large selection of new **SHAYA and used Subaru cars at great prices. 4213 Magazine Street Our friendly and knowledgeable staff New Orleans, LA 70115 can answer all your questions and Phone: 504-891-4213 make your new car experience stress Email: [email protected] free. With the quality associated Website: www.shayarestaurant.com with Subaru vehicles your new car will provide you with years of driving **TAL’S HUMMAS enjoyment. Bryan Subaru proudly 4800 Magazine Street serves the greater New Orleans area, New Orleans, LA 70115 North Shore, and the Baton Rouge Website: http://ordertalsonline.com/#/ communities. Hours: Daily 11:00 AM - 10:00 PM Tal’s Hummus is a quick service restau- CHATEAU DRUGS & GIFTS rant that offers a diverse selection of 3544 West Esplanade Avenue S gourmet entrees & items. The Israeli Metairie, LA 70002 inspired selections such as falafel, Phone: 504-889-2300 hummus, pita sandwiches, platters, Fax: 504-887-7661 kebabs, and salads are prepared with Website: www.chateaudrugsrx.com fresh ingredients. ORDER ONLINE Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM for CARRYOUT, DELIVERY, or even Sat 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM DINE-IN! CLOSED SUNDAYS Founded in 1977, Chateau Drugs be- *WAFFLES ON MAPLE (Metairie) lieves in the philosophy of “total cus- 4650 W. Esplanade Avenue tomer service!” We provide prescrip- Metairie, LA 70006 tion medications, over the counter Phone: 504-510-4900 items, and extensive variety of gifts Website: www.wafflesonmaple.com for all occasions. Most insurance and Hours: Sun–Thurs 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM Medicare Part D Plans are accepted. Fri – 7:00 AM - 3:00 PM DELIVERY SERVICE IS AVAILABLE. CLOSED SATURDAYS Bris, Bar/Bat Mitzva, Birthday Parties, Kosher Supervision: LA. Kashrut Committee Waffles on Maple in Metairie spe- Weddings, corporate, conferences cializes in gourmet waffles, crepes, & your special event! pizza, paninis, omelets, and salads for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Drinks include coffees to milkshakes. CATERING AVAILABLE and includes Waffle cart, desserts, pasta & sushi. Check us out on facebook.

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CONCEPT 13 STUDIOS EXTERIOR DESIGNS BY BEVERLY KATZ [email protected] PO Box #13662 504-723-6466 New Orleans, LA 70185 CONCEPT 13 STUDIOS provides clients with Phone: 504-866-0276 professional and high quality video/photo roduction Website: www.exteriordesignsbev.com services. At CONCEPT 13 STUDIOS our job is to cre- Beverly Katz, landscapedesigner and owner of HOME CARE SOLUTIONS ate content that will promote your business and grow 3421 N. Causeway Boulevard, #502 Exterior Designs offers a full-service design and your brand! We offer a wide range of services to Metairie, LA 70002 build company. The company specializes in af- enhance your company’s visibility. Email us for further Phone: 504-828-0900 fordably transforming unpleasant outdoor areas information and schedule a business consultation. Website: HomeCareNewOrleans.com into additional living space. Many of Beverly Additionally we create commercials, music videos, Katz’s design transformations have been distin- CALL or go online for FREE GUIDE! Serving New Or- short fi lms, and corporate videos. guished and have received national recognition. leans families since 1991, we are experts in aging well! DESIRE TITLE COMPANY Noted local projects include the Washington Ar- An independent, locally owned company specializing 7733 Maple Street tillery Park in the French Quarter and St. George’s in in-home and Alzheimer’s Care, our comprehensive New Orleans, LA 70118 Episcopal School Commons. approach includes assessment, family consultations, caregiver availability 24/7 and peace of mind. Phone: 504-598-3018 HAASE’S SHOES AND CHILDREN’S CLOTHING Fax: 504-285-3713 8119 Oak Street LAKE LAWN METAIRIE FUNERAL HOME AND Email: [email protected] New Orleans, LA 70118 CEMETERIES Website: desiretitle.com Phone: 504-866-9944 5100 Pontchartrain Boulevard Don’t pay high closing costs! Tell your broker that Website: www.haases.com New Orleans, LA 70124 you want to CLOSE with DESIRE TITLE COMPANY! Hours: Mon-Fri 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM Phone: 504-486-6331 At Desire Title Company, we offer effi cient, accurate Sat 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Website: www.dignitymemorial.com/lake-lawn-met-funeral-home service and low rates. Whether you are purchasing CLOSED SUNDAYS Lake Lawn Metairie is dedicated to provide a wide a new property or refi nancing an existing mortgage, Founded in 1921, Haase’s maintains a Reputation range of options, traditional or non-traditional funeral choose Desire Title Company and save money! Call for retaining the most experienced footwear “fi t- services, ground burial, community mausoleum for free consultation! AS THE CONSUMER, STATE ters” in the city. The store offers the most popular spaces, private family tombs, family copings, and LAW PERMITS YOU TO SELECT WHICH TITLE shoe brands for children and men’s footwear. cremation and columbarium niches. Our focus is on COMPANY HANDLES YOUR CLOSING COSTS! It’s Additionally, Haase’s offers gorgeous newborn to providing each family with personalized attention your choice! size 14 clothes for boys and girls, and a variety of and a meaningful memorialization of their loved one. assorted accessories. We are proud members of the Dignity Memorial® network of funeral, cremation and cemetery service providers, offering quality, compassionate care and service you can trust.

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OOH LA LA CONTEMPORARY GALLERIE 524 Saint Peter (Upper Pontalba Shops at Jackson Square) New Orleans, LA 70116 SONITROL OF NEW ORLEANS Phone: 504-522-7554 2217 Ridgelake Drive Hours: Mon-Sun daily 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-837-7144 Come explore our exclusive store Email: [email protected] on Jackson Square, fi lled with stun- Website: www.sonitrolofno.com ning designer European jewelry, Contact: Jerri Pfi ster gorgeous glasswork and a unique selection of Judaica. Sonitrol of New Orleans is an independent Sonitrol franchise that designs NAGHI’S ESTATE JEWELRY & JUDAICA and implements the most effective and Three locations! reliable integrated BUSINESS security 637 Canal Street (CBD) systems. Sonitrol’s Security monitor- 633 Royal Street (French Quarter) ing has an exclusive sound activated 800 Royal Street (French Quarter) intrusion detection and a live audio Phone: 504-586-8373 alarm verifi cation process. Schedule a We specialize in various one free security assessment and learn how of a kind estate Jewelry in pre- a customized Sonitrol system exceeds cious stones and cuts. We offer a conventional systems. Large assortment of many antique European and Rose cut diamonds. Additionally, we showcase a large selection of Judaica. RUSSELL’S DRY CLEANING SERVICES 3401 Tulane Avenue THARP-SONTHEIMER-THARP New Orleans, LA 70119 FUNERAL HOME Phone: 504-482-3153 1600 N. Causeway Boulevard HOURS: M-F 7-5:30, Sat 8:30-12:30 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-835-2341 3704 Robertson Street Email: [email protected] Metairie, LA 70001 Website: www.tharpsontheimerfh.com Phone: 504-832-1546 Contacts: Billy Henry, Funeral Director HOURS: Mon-Fri 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM Stephen L. Sontheimer Sat 8:30 AM -12:30 PM BOTH LOCATIONS CLOSED SUNDAYS. For 100 years, we have served the Email: [email protected] needs of the Jewish community of Website: www.russellscleaning.com. New Orleans. We have the experience, knowledge and longevity Since its’ beginning in 1930, Rus- to respectfully work with all local sell’s has offered the most diversi- Rabbis and the Cheva Kadisha com- fi ed cleaning services in the New mittee. We are available to assist Orleans area. Its’ all-inclusive your family through this entire life services include specialty garments, cycle process. Funerals & crema- draperies, rugs, and upholstery tions available. cleaning. Commercial and residential pickup and delivery are available CAMPS DAY(D) / as well. RESIDENTIAL(R)/ STATE FARM INSURANCE BRYAN *(JEWISH) SCHEXNAYDER, AGENT 1109 N. Causeway Boulevard AUDUBON NATURE INSTITUTE HOLI- Metairie, LA 70001 DAY & SUMMER DAY CAMPS (D) Phone: 504-835-2944 6500 Magazine Street Website: bryanschexnayder.com New Orleans, LA 70118 Serving the greater New Orleans Website: www.auduboninstiture.org area, our State Farm agency can The staff at the Audubon Nature provide all your insurance needs for Institute offers summer day camps auto, renters, home owners and life and special camps at holiday times insurance. There when things go and school breaks for students in wrong. Here to help life go right. K-4th grades. There are choices, FREE QUOTES! such as Audubon’s Zoo Summer Camp, and Audubon Zoo Explorers Camp for those interested in the outdoors and life sciences. These camps offer unique activities like zoo hikes, hands-on science activities, animal shows, feedings and Audubon ”Zoo Keepers” talks.

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*BLUE STAR CAMPS (R) *CAMP JUDAEA (R) ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE (South-Central Region) 179 Blue Star Way 48 Camp Judaea Lane 3747 West Esplanade Avenue Hendersonville, NC 28739 Hendersonville, NC 28792 Metairie, LA 70002 Phone: 828-692-3591 Phone: 828-685-8841 Phone: 504-780-5602 Email: [email protected] Website: www.campjudaea.org Fax: 504-780-5640 Website: www.bluestarcamps.com Website: http://neworleans.adl.org *HENRY S. JACOBS CAMP (R) For over 60 years, the Popkin family has been PO Box 327/3863 Morrison Road Created over 50 years ago, the South Central innovative in Jewish camping experiences. The Utica, MS 39175 ofﬁce of the ADL is dedicated to combating picturesque camp for children ages 6–16 years is Phone: 601-885-6042 anti-Semitism and all forms of hatred and bigotry. located in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Website: www.jacob.urjcamps.org The organization investigates, exposes extrem- Daily activities include creative arts and various ism, and advocates for civil rights and religious outdoor sports. COMMUNITY RESOURCE freedom. *CAMP BARNEY MEDINTZ (R) (JCC ATLANTA) AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ARZA 4165 Highway 129 N (SE REGION) 633 Third Avenue, 7th Floor Cleveland, GA 30528 3300 PGA Boulevard, Suite 970 New York, NY 10017 Phone: 706-865-2715 Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 Phone: 212-650-4280 Website: www.campbarney.org Phone: 561-835-0510 Fax: 212-650-4289 Fax: 561-835-9410 Email: [email protected] *CAMP GAN ISRAEL NEW ORLEANS (D) Rabbi Joshua Weinberg, President 5210 West Esplanade Avenue Email: [email protected] Metairie, LA 70006 Website: www.afmda.org ARZA is the largest supporter of the Israel Move- Phone: 862-226-6777 American Friends of Magen David Adom (AFM- ment for Reform, Progressive Judaism (IMPJ) Email: [email protected] DA) supports Israel’s ambulance, blood-services, and the Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC). As Website: www.cgineworleans.com and disaster-relief organization. MDA serves as an the Zionist wing of the Reform Movement. ARZA Director: Chaya Mushka Kazen emergency medical ﬁrst responder for the Israel’s assists in bringing Reform Jews to Israel with 8 million people. Because it is not a government pre- and post-trip programming, and educational Located on the campus of Torah Academy, Camp materials for Reform congregations. Gan Israel is a month long summer camp of- agency, MDA relies on outside assistance to fully fering innovative ideas, creative programs and fund its services. activities. In New Orleans there are two camp divisions–Mini Gan (3-4 yrs) and Gan Izzy (5-12 years). Early and late care offered.

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AVODAH: THE JEWISH SERVICE ISRAEL BONDS CORPS- NEW ORLEANS (Regional Offi ce in Atlanta, GA) New Orleans Offi ce 1100 Spring Street Housed at Touro Synagogue Suite 720 (4238 St. Charles Ave.) Atlanta, GA 30309 Phone: 504-861-1067 Phone: 800-752-5649 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.avodah.net/new-orleans Website: www.israelbonds.com AVODAH strengthens the Jewish Investment in Israel through the sale community’s fi ght against the causes of Israel bonds is global in scope, and effects of poverty in the United with worldwide sales rapidly ap- States, by engaging participants proaching $40 billion. Established in service and community building as 1951, these bonds serve as a that inspire them to become lifelong broker/dealer and underwriter for leaders for social change whose work securities issued by the Israeli gov- for justice is rooted in and nourished ernment. Israel bonds are respected by Jewish values. investments for their dependability and cost-effectiveness. JEWISH CHILDREN’S REGIONAL SERVICE (South-Central Region) 3500 N Causeway Boulevard, Suite 1120 Metairie, LA 70002 Mailing Address: P.O. # 7368 Metairie, LA 70010 FIDF (FRIENDS OF THE ISRAELI DEFENSE Phone: 504-828-6334 FORCE) FIDF Southeast Region Toll Free: 800-729-5277 Atlanta, GA Email: [email protected] Phone: 678-250-9030 Website: www.jcrs.org Website: www.fi df.org Director: Ned Goldberg, ACSW/LCSW Email: Southeast@fi df.org Founded in 1855, JCRS is the oldest Executive Director: Seth Baron Jewish children’s agency in the U.S. FIDF (Friends of the Israeli Defense It serves across 7 regional states (AL, Force) was established in 1981 by AR, LA, MS, OK, TN, and TX) for the a group of Holocaust survivors to neediest and most challenged Jew- provide and support educational, ish children from infancy through social, cultural, and recreational college. Jewish Camp scholarships programs and facilities for the heroic and low interest college loans avail- men and women of the IDF. FIDF able. has more than 120,000 supporters, and 15 regional offi ces.

THE JEWISH ENDOWMENT FOUNDA- TION OF LOUISIANA HADASSAH 615 Baronne Street, Suite 150 (Women’s Zionist Organization of New Orleans, LA 70113 America) Phone: 504-524-4559 Come see our award winning New Orleans Chapter Fax: 504-524-4259 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 2017 Subaru inventory Website: Hadassah.org/neworleans Website: www.jefno.org Contact: Charisse Sands, President Director: Saundra K. Levy Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Or- The Jewish Endowment Foundation ganization of America (HWZOA) is of Louisiana began in 1967 by Jew- a voluntary non-proﬁ t organization. ish leaders of New Orleans. The or- With more Than 330,000 members, ganization established a repository it is dedicated to the ideas of Juda- for reserved funds. These funds ism, Zionism, American democracy, are a source for as yet undreamed- healing, teaching and medical of projects to nurture an enduring research. Hadassah enhances the and vibrant Jewish New Orleans. health of people worldwide through its support of medical care and research at the Hadassah Medical Organization (HMO) in Jerusalem.

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JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE (3 Locations) Main Office: 3300 W. Esplanade Avenue, Suite 603 Metairie, LA 70002 Phone: 504-831-8475 Uptown: 1426 Amelia Street NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH New Orleans, LA 70115 WOMEN (NCJW) New Orleans Section Phone: 504-831-8475 6221 S. Claiborne Avenue North Shore: 1403 N. Causeway Boulevard New Orleans, LA 70125 Mandeville, LA 70471 Phone: 504-861-7788 Email: [email protected] Fax: 504-861-0044 Website: www.jfsneworleans.org Email: [email protected] Director: Roselle Ungar, CFRE Website: www.ncjwneworleans.org President: Barbara Kaplinsky Founded in 1948, Jewish Fam- ily Service` has provided skilled For over one century, NCJW has counseling services, support groups, been at the forefront of social prevention programs and senior change. Inspired by Jewish values, services. JFS is the exclusive repre- NCJW courageously takes a sentative for Phillips’ Lifeline service, Progressive stance on issues as a monitored medical alert system. child welfare, women’s rights and reproductive freedom. Numerous JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER volunteer and advocacy opportuni- NEW ORLEANS ties available. 3747 West Esplanade Avenue Metairie, LA 70002 Phone: 504-780-5600 Website: www.jewishnola.com Executive Director: Arnie Fielkow President: Henry A. Miller Since 1913, the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans has served as the central Sicoordinating body TOURO INFIRMARY FOUNDATION for the Jewish community. Its mis- 1401 Foucher Street sion is to build and sustain a vibrant New Orleans, LA 70115 Greater New Orleans Jewish com- Phone: 504.897-8435 munity and to assure the continuity Website: www.touro.com/foundation of the Jewish people in America, Director: Jonnie Honse, Israel and the Diaspora. [email protected], Foundation Manager: Josh Friedmann, JEWISH WAR VERERANS, JULES josh.friedmann@ lcmchealth.org LAZARD POST 580 The Touro Infirmary Foundation was Contact: Judge Sol Gothard, Commander established in 1991 to support the 3663 Behrman Pl. mission of Touro Infirmary and the New Orleans, LA 70114 hospital’s commitment to patient Phone: 504-887-3570 care, health education and com- Email: [email protected] munity service through leadership, FB: https://m.facebook.com/JewishWar Vetera resource development and financial nsofAmericaNewOrleansPost?v=info stewardship. Judah Touro, a Jew- Our post is dedicated to continue ish philanthropist, founded Touro the connection between the military, Infirmary in 1852 with a mandate to local Veterans, New Orleans and our care for the indigent sick regardless Jewish community. Annual Veterans of race, color, creed or religious af- Day and Memorial Day events honor filiation. His vision continues to this our brethren of blessed memory day, both though Touro Infirmary and those living. We participate an- and the Touro Infirmary Foundation. nually in the Community Holocaust WE ARE PROUD of the ASSITANCE Memorial program held at the Jew- WE PROVIDE the HOSPITAL, its ish Community Center. PATIENTS, and this COMMUNITY. With your continued support, we will ensure a happier, healthier New Orleans. YOU CAN HAVE A DIRECT IMPACT ON HEALTHCARE IN OUR COMMUNITY; DONATE TO THE TOURO FOUNDATION TODAY.

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EDUCATION *JCC NURSERY SCHOOL 5342 St Charles Avenue PRESCHOOL – HIGH SCHOOL New Orleans, LA 70115 *(JEWISH) Phone: 504-897-0143 AUDUBON CHARTER SCHOOL Director: Adrienne Shulman Email: [email protected] Lower School 428 Broadway The JCC Nursery School keeps its teacher to stu- New Orleans, LA 70118 dent ratios small, with tailored classroom activities Phone: 504-324-7100 to meet the social, emotional, intellectual and Upper School physical needs of each child. These scheduled preschool classes met either three or ﬁve days 1111 Milan Street, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL New Orleans, LA 70115 each week during the school year. The school 2001 Leon C. Simon Drive has limited spaces with an annual waiting list. Phone: 504-324-7110 New Orleans, LA 70122 Principal: Ms. LaToya Brown Phone: 504-286-2600 Website: https:auduboncharter.org Email: [email protected] Admissions: https://www.auduboncharter.com/admissions.aspx Website: www.bfhsla.org Admissions: https://enrollnola.org/contact-us/ Admissions Director: Lynn Jenkins The Audubon Charter School located in Uptown Since its founding in 1957, Benjamin Franklin New Orleans offers either Montessori or French High School has remained the most outstanding immersion tracts for our students. school in the area attracting the best and the brightest students. Consistently ranked as a “top public high school in the nation” by U.S News and World Report, Newsweek, and Business Week, Franklin has received the highest School Performance Score in Louisiana, making it the #1 public school in the state, year after year. Frank- lin is repeatedly named a National Blue Ribbon School, producing Presidential and National Merit Scholars annually.

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*TORAH ACADEMY *JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL 5210 West Esplanade Avenue (JCDS) Metairie, LA 70006 3747 West Esplanade Avenue Phone: 504-456-6429 Metairie, LA 70002 Email: [email protected] Phone: 504-887-4091 Website: www.torahacademynola.com limmud 2018 Website: www.jcdsnola.org President: Rabbi Yochanan Rivkin Head of School: Sharon Pollin, PhD Torah Academy offers programs for Email: ofﬁ [email protected] children from 5 weeks through 8th Jewish Community Day School is the grade. In accordance with Jewish tradi- Jewish Day School of Greater New tion and through nurturing learning en- Orleans. The JCDS mission is to instill vironments, our students are encour- a lifetime love of learning, invigorated aged to develop a lifelong passion for by academic excellence. Children are learning. Appealing to the multiple prepared to be engaged, compas- intelligences of every child, we employ sionate leaders of their communities various media, technology and peda- march 16 - 18 in the US, Israel, and the world. Strong gogy into the Torah Academy teaching teacher/student ratios and academic methodology. By following Common curriculum, an amazing, fully equipped Core Standards in our dual curriculum, campus, and kosher kitchen are just a we ensure our graduates the skills nec- few reasons JCDS families love their essary for continued lifelong success. school. Lots of events and community Call us (504-456-6429) to schedule a outreach are scheduled for the upcom- school tour and come see what we’re ing 2016/17 school year. JCDS has all about! both a Young Baby Program (6 weeks to 18 months) and Day School (Pre-K GOODS & SERVICES to 5th Grade). BRYAN SUBARU SERVICE *LOUISE HAYEM MANHEIM NURSERY DEPARTMENT SCHOOL OF GATES OF PRAYER 8305 Airline Drive 4000 W. Esplanade Avenue Metairie, LA 70003 This year, LimmudFest’s celebration of Metairie, LA 70002 Phone: 888-317-6194 Phone: 504-885-4339 Website: www.bryansubaru.com learning, community, and culture Email: [email protected] Hours: Mon-Fri 7:30 AM - 6:00PM Director: Melainie Blitz Sat 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM includes a Shabbaton at SUNDAYS CLOSED LUSHER CHARTER SCHOOL (K-12) Our New Orleans area Subaru Congregation Gates of Prayer on Lower School Campus: service center in Metairie is proud to 7315 Willow Street serve customers from all over Louisi- Friday and Saturday, and more New Orleans, LA 70118 ana. Our knowledgeable and expe- Phone: 504-862-5110 learning and cultural programs at rienced mechanics at our dealership Upper School/Alcee Fortier Campus: will maximize your Subaru vehicle’s the newly expanded Uptown JCC 5624 Freret Street performance. Additionally, our New Orleans, LA 70115 mechanics can identify developing on Saturday night and Sunday. Phone: 504-304-3960 problems to help you avoid future Lusher is a K-12 school chartered by breakdowns. All services includes a Advocates for Arts Based Education, multi-point vehicle inspection. which govern the school. The curriculum implements cutting-edge re- SAVE THE DATE: forms in arts-based education while integrating the latest developments in brain research. Lusher incorpo- MARCH 16 - 18, 2018 rates a research based systematic approach to literacy and numeracy instruction. The school is in partner- Congregation Gates of Prayer ship with Tulane University. and Uptown JCC

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OCTAVIA BOOKS COLONIAL OAKS LIVING CENTER 513 Octavia Street 4312 Ithaca Street New Orleans, LA 70115 Metairie, LA Phone: 504-899-7323 (across from East Jefferson Hospital) Hours: Mon-Sat 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Phone: 504-887-6414 MARDI GRAS ZONE Sun 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Website: www.Colonialoaksliving.com 2706 Royal Street Website: www.octaviabooks.com This family owed nursing facility offers long and short New Orleans, LA 70117 OOH LA LA CONTEMPORARY term living options. These include rehab, hospice, Phone: 504-947-8787 and respite care units. The goal of the facility is to Websites: mardigraszonesupermarket.net GALLERIE 524 Saint Peter provide quality care which include rehab, hospice, mardigraszone.com and respite care units. The goal of the facility is to ALWAYS OPEN–24/7 (Upper Pontalba Shops at Jackson Square) New Orleans, LA 70116 provide quality care and comfort while enhancing the Mardi Gras Zone offers a great selection and in- Phone: 504-522-7554 joy and dignity of life. Large offerings of social and ventory of grocery items including KOSHER, inter- Hours: Mon-Sun, daily 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM recreational activities for residents. 24-HOUR FAMILY national foods, dairy, vegetarian, gluten-free, and VISITATION ALLOWED. Make an appointment or organic. MGZ carries 100% cajun (trademark) local Come explore our exclusive store on Jackson just stop in for a tour! produce and farm fresh eggs are available daily. A Square, ﬁ lled with stunning designer European complete line of pet and green cleaning products jewelry, gorgeous glasswork and a unique selec- are stocked. The in-house café offers homemade tion of Judaica. salads, fresh and delicious home-baked breads, hand tossed 20” brick oven pizza, and classic New HEALTH & FITNESS & MIND Orleans deli food and po-boys. BELLE VIE LIVING CENTER HOME CARE SOLUTIONS NAGHI’S 535 Commerce Street 3421 N. Causeway Boulevard, #502 633 Royal Street Gretna, LA Metairie, LA 70002 New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: 504-393-9595 Phone: 504-828-0900 Phone: 504-586-8373 Website: www.Bellevielivingcenter.com Website: HomeCareNewOrleans.com We specialize in various one of a kind estate jew- Quality residential care for long or short term options. CALL or go online for FREE GUIDE! Serving New elry in precious stones and cuts. We offer a large These include rehab, hospice, and respite care units. Orleans families since 1991, we are experts in ag- assortment of many antique European and rose The goal of the facility is to provide quality care and ing well! An independent, locally owned company cut diamonds. Additionally, we showcase a large comfort while enhancing the joy and dignity of life. specializing in in-home and Alzheimer’s care, our selection of Judaica. Large offerings of social and recreational activities for comprehensive approach includes assessment, residents. 24-HOUR FAMILY VISITATION ALLOWED. family consultations, caregiver availability 24/7 and crescent city jews news 1-17R3_Layout 1 1/18/17 2:44 PMMake Page an appointment 1 or just stop in for a tour! peace of mind.

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JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER MARDI GRAS GROUPS Uptown Campus (KREWES) 5342 St. Charles Avenue Coffee, Breakfast Phone: 504-897-0143 KREWE DU JIEUX Metairie Campus www.krewedujieux.com Brunch, Lunch 3747 W. Esplanade Avenue KREWE DU JIEUX is a sub-krewe of Phone: 504-887-5158 the Krewe Delusion’s unique walking Dinner, Desserts Website: www.nojcc.org parade. In addition to the annual The JCC fitness centers are com- parade, Krewe du Jieux sponsors mitted to helping members achieve a variety of events throughout the & positive lifestyle changes. The year. These include second-line facilities are well-maintained and parades for Chanukah and Purim, a Catering. offer state-of-the-art equipment, Passover KreweSeder, a Rosh/Kippur professionally taught classes and a Apology Party and the wonderfully friendly and accessible staff. irreverent “Running of the Jieuxs” second-line parade following their Now serving Bloody Marys, JFS PHILLIPS LIFELINE MEDICAL annual coronation of royalty. MONITORING ALERT SYSTEM Mimosas, Beer, Wine and more 3300 W. Esplanade Avenue, Suite 600 KREWE DU MISHIGAS Metairie, LA 70002 Krewe du Mishigas, a Jewish Phone: 504-831-8475 ext: 128 satirical parading organization, Email: [email protected] traces its routes back to 1996. It is 5606 CANAL BLVD. Contact: Jane Levine a sub-krewe of the Krewe du Vieux, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70124 Dog Jewish Family service is the ex- which is known for wild satire, adult 504-483-7001 clusive representative for Phillips themes, and political comedy, as friendly Lifeline service, a monitored medical well as for showcasing some of the alert system. JFS provides installa- best brass and jazz bands in New mon-fri • 7am-8pm tion, product servicing and courtesy Orleans. visitations. The AutoAlert button saturday • 7am-6pm MARDI GRAS MITZVA MAKERS free is 100% waterproof. No long term sunday • 7am-3pm wi-fi contracts are required. System is Chariman: Dr. Hilton Title maintained and tested monthly. Phone: 504-957-5310 Indoor parade of “merry makers” WWW.LAKEVIEWBREW.COM who bring annual Mardi Gras cheer to designated Touro Infirmary #LAKEVIEWBREW patients and seniors residing at the Malta House. MUSIC Purchasing? Refinancing? LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA TOURO INFIRMARY 1010 Common Street, Suite 2120 Choose DESIRE TITLE! 1401 Foucher Street New Orleans, LA 70112 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone/Fax: 504-523-6530 Phone: 504-897-7011 Email: [email protected]

Website: www.touro.com Website: www. lpomusic.com TITLE Keith Andrews • Mark Bonura Touro Inﬁrmary was founded in Music Director: Carlos Miguel Prieto As the buyer or borrower, you have the 1852. Touro is New Orleans’ only Formed in 1991, the Louisiana community based, not-for-proﬁt, Philharmonic Orchestra is the oldest right to choose your title company. Call faith-based hospital. Touro con- full-time musician-governed and us for a quote on your next closing! tinues to make a difference in the collaboratively operated orchestra in COMPANY lives of people in the New Orleans the United States. The LPO offers a (504) 598-3018 • 7733 Maple St. community, ensuring their health full 36-week season with more than needs are met with access to quality 120 performances, including clas- attention and care. sics, light classics, pops, education, WOLDENBERG VILLAGE family, park and community engage- 3701 Behrman Place ment concerts in New Orleans and New Orleans, LA 70114 across multi-parish areas. Phone: 504-367-5640 Website: www.liveatwv.com Woldenberg Village serves as one of the region’s premiere retirement and healthcare facilities. The community consists of 60 independent Brunch & Dinner living garden apartment homes, 60 assisted living apartments and 120 Tuesday - Sunday bed skilled nursing facility. Shabbat services are held every Saturday on 4729 Magazine Street site.

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ANSHE SFARD SYNAGOGUE CONGREGATION GATES OF PRAYER GENERATIONS (ORTHODOX) (REFORM) 4400 Elysian Fields Avenue 1412 Joseph Street New Orleans, LA New Orleans, LA Phone: 504-782-7218 Phone: 504-885-2600 Contact: Sandy Lassen HEBREW REST CEMETERIES 1, 2, 3 CHEVRA THILIM CEMETERY (REFORM) ASSOCIATION (ORTHODOX, 2100 Pelopidas at Frenchman Street PANORAMA JAZZ BAND CONSERVATIVE, REFORM) New Orleans, LA Website: www,panoramajazzband.com 4824 Canal Street Phone: 504-288-7922 • 504-895-4853 Contact: Ben Schenck New Orleans, LA Contact: Herb Barton Email: [email protected] Phone: 504-782-7218 1852 SOCIETY OF THE TOURO New Orleans Jazz, Brass and Contact: Sandy Lassen JEWISH BURIAL RITES (ORTHODOX) FOUNDATION KLEZMER BAND. 2015 marks our 4321 Frenchman Street 1401 Foucher Street 20th year serving greater New Or- CHEVRA THILIM MEMORIAL PARK New Orleans, LA New Orleans, LA 70115 leans and the Jewish community. (CONSERVATIVE) Phone: 504-782-7218 Phone: 504.897-8435 5000 Iberville Street Contact: Sandy Lassen Website: www.touro.com/foundation New Orleans, LA THE SUPPORTERS and DONORS RELIGIOUS LIFE Phone: 504-782-7218 NORTHSHORE JEWISH CONGREGA- Of TOURO INFIRMARY FOUNDA- Contact: Sandy Lassen TION (REFORM) CEMETERIES 2260 West 21st Street TION that are under 45 years of age HISTORIC NOTE: THE FIRST JEWISH CEMETERY CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL NEW Covington, LA can belong to our 1852 SOCIETY. IN THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA WAS CEMETERY (ORTHODOX) Phone: 985-951-7976 Founded in 1852, TOURO INFIR- LOCATED AT 2400 SARATOGA STREET (CORNER OF 4444 Elysian Fields Avenue Contact: NJC Office MARY is the oldest, faith-based SARATOGA AND JACKSON AVENUE) IT WAS USED New Orleans, LA non-profit hospital in New Orleans. FROM 1828–1872. IN 1957 UNDER THE SUPERVI- Phone: 504-283-4469 SHIR CHADASH/TIKVAT SHALOM We were the first hospital in Orleans SION OF THE RABBINIC COUNCIL THE REMAINS OF Contact: Marshall Gerson CEMETERY Parish to open its doors after Hur- THESE 1st JEWISH SETTLERS WERE REMOVED AND (CONSERVATIVE) ricane Katrina. We had the first in- REINTERED AT HEBREW REST CEMETERY. CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL OLD Jefferson Memorial Gardens cubators in New Orleans to treat our CEMETERY (ORTHODOX) 11316 River Road tiniest patients. Touro provided the AHAVAS SHALOM (ORTHODOX) 4321 Frenchman Street Rose, LA first physical therapy department in 4400 Elysian Fields Avenue New Orleans, LA Phone: 504-782-7218 the city, and the 1st Dialysis Unit in New Orleans, LA Phone: 504-283-4469 Contact: Sandy Lassen a community hospital. Along with a Phone: 504-837-0770 • 504-837-0770 • Contact: Marshall Gerson NEW GENERATION of healthcare, 504-905-4992 TOURO SYNAGOGUE AND TEMPLE Touro Infirmary Foundation needs Contact: Ken Pailet SINAI (REFORM) a NEW GENERATION of DONORS, 4737 Canal Street (corner N. Anthony St.) SUPPORTERS, and ADVOCATES. New Orleans, LA Help us accomplish more. Join the Phone: 504-288-7922 • 504-895-4853 1852 Society today. Contact: Herb Barton BELLE VIE LIVING CENTER CLERGY & RITUAL SERVICES 535 Commerce Street GREATER NEW ORLEANS RABBINICAL Gretna, LA COUNCIL Phone: 504-393-9595 Website: www.Bellevielivingcenter.com Phone: 504-302-1830 President: Rabbi Gabriel Greenberg Quality residential care for long or Email: [email protected] short term options. These include KITCHEN KASHERING SERVICE rehab, hospice, and respite care Rabbi Mendel Rivkin units. The goal of the facility is to provide quality care and comfort MIKVEH (MIKVAH CHAYA MUSHKA while enhancing the joy and dignity AT RINGGER WOMEN’S ENRICHMENT of life. Large offerings of social and CENTER) recreational activities for residents. 7033 Freret Street 24-HOUR FAMILY VISITATION AL- New Orleans, LA 70118 LOWED. Make an appointment or Phone: 347-564-6525 just stop in for a tour! The Crescent City Jewish Email: [email protected] News proudly publishes Contact: Bluma Rivkin MOHEL Rabbi Mendel Ceitlin weekly JEWISH TRIVIA Phone: 347-351-6476 by our “home grown” Email: [email protected]

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COLONIAL OAKS LIVING CENTER JNOLA LAKE LAWN METAIRIE FUNERAL 4312 Ithaca Street 3747 West Esplanade Avenue HOME AND CEMETERIES Metairie, LA Metairie, LA 70002 5100 Pontchartrain Boulevard (across from East Jefferson Hospital) Phone: 504-780-5628 New Orleans, LA 70124 Phone: 504-887-6414 Email: [email protected] Phone: 504-486-6331 THARP-SONTHEIMER-THARP Website: www.Colonialoaksliving.com Website: www.jnola.com Website: www.dignitymemorial.com/lake- FUNERAL HOME This family owed nursing facility Young Leadership: Tana Velen lawn-met-funeral-home 1600 N. Causeway Boulevard offers long and short term living op- JNOLA serves the Jewish Next Gen Lake Lawn Metairie is dedicated to Metairie, LA 70001 tions. These include rehab, hospice, community in New Orleans (ages provide a wide range of options, Phone: 504-835-2341 and respite care units. The goal of 21-45) through a variety of program- traditional or non-traditional funeral Email: [email protected] the facility is to provide quality care ming including social engagement, services, ground burial, community Website: www.tharpsontheimerfh.com which include rehab, hospice, and professional networking, enriching mausoleum spaces, private family Contact: Billy Henry, Funeral Director respite care units. The goal of the and educational opportunities, tombs, family copings, and crema- For 100 years we have served the facility is to provide quality care and leadership development, and tikkun tion and columbarium niches. Our needs of the Jewish community of comfort while enhancing the joy and olam (repairing the world/social focus is on providing each family New Orleans. We have the experi- dignity of life. Large offerings of action). with personalized attention and a ence, knowledge and longevity social and recreational activities for meaningful memorialization of their MOISHE HOUSE to respectfully work with all local residents. 24-HOUR FAMILY VISITA- loved one. We are proud members Rabbis and the Cheva Kadisha com- TION ALLOWED. Make an appoint- (Located in the Marigny district of New of the Dignity Memorial® network Orleans) mittee. We are available to assist ment or just stop in for a tour! of funeral, cremation and cemetery your family through this entire life Email: [email protected] service providers, offering quality, HOME CARE SOLUTIONS Email: [email protected] cycle process. Funerals & crema- compassionate care and service you tions available. 3421 N. Causeway Boulevard, #502 Website: www.moishehouse.org can trust. Metairie, LA 70002 FB: www.facebook.com/mhnola Phone: 504-828-0900 Regional Director: Jaycee Greenblatt Website: HomeCareNewOrleans.com Moishe House New Orleans is a wel- CALL or go online for FREE GUIDE! coming, inclusive home-based com- Serving New Orleans families since munity. The purpose of the group 1991, we are experts in aging well! is to provide a meaningful space for An independent, locally owned young Jewish adults In their 20’s to company specializing in in-home share, explore and engage in social and Alzheimer’s Care, our compre- justice, community involvement and hensive approach includes assess- Jewish leadership. ment, family consultations, caregiver availability 24/7 and peace of mind. WOLDENBERG VILLAGE 3701 Behrman Place JEWCCY (Jewish Crescent City Youth) New Orleans, LA 70114 c/o Touro Synagogue Phone: 504-367-5640 4238 Saint Charles Avenue Website: www.liveatwv.com New Orleans, LA 70118 Woldenberg Village serves as one Phone: 504-912-5515 of the region’s premiere retirement Email: [email protected] and healthcare facilities. The com- Contact: Charlie Cox munity consists of 60 independent JewCCy (Jewish Crescent City Youth) living garden apartment homes, 60 is the Reform Jewish youth group assisted living apartments and 120 for New Orleans and Metairie and is bed skilled nursing facility. Shabbat the local chapter of NFTY (National services are held every Saturday on Federation of Temple Youth.) For site. information about upcoming events, or photo’s from event’s past, visit our FUNERAL HOMES & BURIAL Facebook page, follow us on Insta- SERVICES gram, and subscribe to our YouTube channel–JewCCY TV! JEWISH BURIAL SOCIETY OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS (CHEVRA KADISHA) JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER Email: [email protected] (Senior Adult Programming) Contact: Sandy Lassen (CHAIR) 5342 St Charles Ave. DINE IN, GROCERY & CATERING Volunteers from several congrega- Phone: 504-897-0143 Specializing in Hot Pastrami & Corned Beef • Jambalaya • Chopped Liver • Matzoh Ball Soup tions are trained to properly prepare Email: [email protected] the body for traditional Jewish PIZZA EVERY WEDNESDAY | SUSHI THURSDAY | FRIED CHICKEN FRIDAY Website: www.nojcc.org burials. Director: Rachel Ruth Buy 1 Sandwich The Jewish Community Center offers a variety of programs and activi- & Get 1 FREE ties that address the social, cultural of equal or lesser value and physical needs of community Dine in only. Up to $6.95 Value. Expires 12/31/17 members 65 and older. Interest- ing day excursions, Morris Bart Sr. 3519 Severn Ave., Metairie Lecture Series and game clubs are Mon-Thur 10am-7pm some of the speciﬁ c programming Fri. & Sun. 10am-3pm available. Additional fees for participants that are not JCC members. www.koshercajun.com | 888-2010

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JUDAICA CHABAD JEWISH CENTER SYNAGOGUES-REFORM 4141 West Esplanade Avenue ART BY ANNA GIL Metairie, LA 70002 CONGRGATION GATES OF PRAYER Phone: 504-233-4818 Phone: 504-454-2910 4000 West Esplanade Avenue Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Metairie, LA 70002 Website: annagil.com Website: www.jewishlouisiana.com Phone: 504-885-2600 Winner of the Golden Ghetto Award on Facebook Drectors: Rabbi Yossie & Chanie Nemes Email: offi[email protected] in February, 2013. Anna Gil expresses her creativity Education Directors: Mendel & Chaya Mushka Ceitlin Website: www.gatesofprayer.org through oil paint. She uses lines, patterns, sharp edges The Chabad Jewish Center Of Metairie aptly serves Rabbi: Robert Loewy and large fields of color in her work. She is able to ex- the needs of the suburban New Orleans Jewish Cantorial Soloist: Victoria May press her influences and inspirations through Hebrew community. Since Katrina, the center has provided President: David Dulitz words and the many layers of meaning in each letter. expanded programming and activities including the Temple Administrator: Jack H.Schulman founding of a Sunday school that currently has 4 As the only Reform Jewish congregation in Metai- DASHKA ROTH CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY & JUDAICA classes. rie, Gates of Prayer is dedicated to provide mem- 332 Chartres Street bers with opportunities to find Kedusha through New Orleans, LA 70130 CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF LOUISIANA participation in worship services, life-cycle events, Phone: 504-523-0805 7037 Freret Street educational activities and social action programs Website: dashkaroth.com New Orleans, LA 70118 that reflect our enduring commitment to Torah, Phone: 504-302-1830 Avodah and Gemilut. GATES OF PRAYER JUDAICA SHOP Emails:[email protected] 4000 West Esplanade Avenue [email protected] NORTHSHORE JEWISH CONGREGATION Metairie, LA 70002 [email protected] 1403 North Causeway Boulevard Phone: 504-885-2600 [email protected] Mandeville, LA 70471 Website: www.gatesofprayer.org Website: www.jewishlouisiana.com Phone: 985-951-7976 Congregation Gates of Prayer Sisterhood Gift Shop Directed by: Rabbi Zelig and Bluma Rivkin Website: www.northshorejewish.org carrying a full line of Judaica gift items for all occa- Rabbi Mendel and Malkie Rivkin Email: [email protected] sions. Look for our annual CHANUKAH GIFT SHOW! Chabad of Louisiana headquarters, serves as a President: Bonnie Bernstein Synagogue as well as a center for adult education, Email: [email protected] OOH LA LA CONTEMPORARY GALLERIE Rabbi: Deborah Zecher (monthly) 524 Saint Peter children’s programs and Jewish social events. In- (Upper Pontalba Shops at Jackson Square) formation about our many programs and activities The Northshore Jewish Congregation (NJC) is a New Orleans, LA 70116 is accessible throughout the website. member of the Union of Reform Judaism. NJC is located on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain Phone: 504-522-7554 CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL Hours: Mon-Sun, daily 10:00 AM -6:00 PM about 30 miles from downtown New Orleans in 4004 W. Esplanade Avenue Mandeville. It is a warm and inviting community Come explore our exclusive store on Jackson Square, Metairie, LA 70002 built on the fundamental and enduring principals filled with stunning designer European jewelry, gor- Phone: 504-454-5080 of Reform Judaism. geous glasswork and a unique selection of Judaica. Fax: 504-883-8010 TEMPLE SINAI NAGHI’S Website: www.bethisraelnola.com Rabbi: Gabe Greenberg 6227 St. Charles Avenue 633 Royal Street Email: [email protected] New Orleans, LA 70118 New Orleans, LA 70130 Administator: Rabbi David Posternock Phone: 504-861-3693 Phone: 504-586-8373 Email: offi[email protected] Email: [email protected] Naghi’s has an extensive and Unique assortment of President: Leonore D. Kansas Website: www.templesinaino.org traditional to contemporary menorahs, mezuzahs, Congregation Beth Israel is a Modern Orthodox Rabbi: Matthew A. Reimer Kiddush cups and Shabbat candlesticks. Internationally Synagogue. We are proud of our multi-genera- Rabbi Emeritus: Edward P Cohn recognized artist Anna Gil has numerous pieces of her tional heritage and over 100 year presence in the Cantor: Joel Colman artwork for sale. Additionally the store offers a large as- Greater New Orleans area. Our mission is to create Executive Director: Ellen Rae Shalett sortment of antique jewelry from their estate collection. an accessible spiritual home, where all Jews, President: The Honorable Robin M. Giarrusso SYNAGOGUES/CENTERS-ORTHODOX regardless of affiliation or background, are warmly Temple Sinai is a House of Prayer for all people. embraced and welcomed into our greater family. Established in 1870, Temple Sinai supports, ANSHE SFARD SYNAGOGUE promotes and reinforces the ideals of Reform 2230 Carondelet Street SYNAGOGUES-CONSERVATIVE Judaism and Jewish values through its dedication New Orleans, LA 70130 to worship, education, social action, outreach, Phone: 504-522-4714 SHIR CHADASH CONSERVATIVE CONGREGATION and K’al Yisrael. We endeavor to build a sense of 3737 West Esplanade Avenue Website: www.anshesfard.org community within our Congregation by striving to Metairie, LA 70002 Rabbi: Yochanan Rivkin meet the spiritual, intellectual, and cultural needs Phone: 504-889-1144 Email: [email protected] of each of our members while strengthening the Email: [email protected] Executive Director: Sandy Lassen bond of loyalty with Jewish people everywhere. Website: www.shirchadash.org Email: [email protected] or [email protected] Rabbi: Deborah Silver Facebook: www.facebook.com/Congregation-Anshe-Sfard-of- Executive Director: Bruce Yeillen New-Orleans-190279014373125 President: Lisa Finkelstein Twitter: @AnsheSfard Congregation President: Dr. Gary Remer As a traditional egalitarian synagogue we are committed to giving all Jews an equal role in Jewish Anshe Sfard is an orthodox congregation in the heart prayer. Shir Chadash was formed in 1999 by the of New Orleans that welcomes all who attend. It’s union of Tikvat Shalom and Chevra Thilim. We are beautiful and historic synagogue, built in 1926, is the excited about the growth in our synagogue, and last vestige of a time when its surrounding neighbor- in the Jewish community of Greater New Orleans. hood was the center of Jewish life in New Orleans. Our community is committed to learning, to Anshe Sfard, as the closest synagogue to downtown supporting each other, and to being a warm and New Orleans, also serves the religious needs of count- welcoming place for all who join with us. less tourists, conventioneers, and volunteer groups.

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TOURO SYNAGOGUE UNIVERSITY LIFE TULANE UNIVERSITY Traditionally 4238 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans, LA 70115 ROHR CHABAD JEWISH STUDENT CENTER AT JEWISH FRATERNITIES & SORORITIES: Phone: 504-895-4843 TULANE UNIVERSITY ALPHA EPSILON PI FRATERNITY Fax: 504-897-0237 7033 Freret Street (TAU UPSILON CHAPTER) Website: www.tourosynagogue.com New Orleans, LA 70118 7220 Zimple Street Rabbi: Alexis Berk Website: www.tulanechabad.org New Orleans, LA 70118 Rabbi Todd Silverman Director: Rabbi Yochanan Rivkin Rabbi Alexis Pinsky ALPHA EPSILON PHI SORORITY Executive Director: Kerry Tapia TULANE UNIVERSITY HILLEL (THE GOLDIE AND (EPSILON CHAPTER) Email: [email protected] MORRIS MINTZ CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE) 1134 Broadway President: Teri Hunter 912 Broadway New Orleans, LA 70118 Rabbi Emeritus: David Goldstein New Orleans, LA 70118 Website: http://tulaneaephi.chapterspot.com Email: [email protected] With historic roots and a progressive heart, Touro Website: tulanehillel.org SIGMA DELTA TAU SORORITY Synagogue is a community that is ﬁlled with Executive Director: Rabbi Yonah Schiller (ALPHA IOTA CHAPTER) beautiful contradictions – a grand, historic sanctu- 1013 Broadway ary and an intimate, embracing chapel; an active TULANE UNIVERSITY JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM New Orleans, LA 70118 group of knowledgeable sages and a vibrant 7031 Freret Street Website: http://tulanesdt.chapterspot.com young adult community; a love of enduring Jew- New Orleans, LA 70118 ish traditions and a drive for spiritual innovation Phone: 504-865-5349 ZETA BETA TAU FRATERNITY and forward motion; a commitment to the inner Email: [email protected] (SIGMA CHAPTER) life of their congregational family and a constant Website: http://tulane.edu/liberal-arts/jewish-studies 1006 Broadway energetic force that engages with the renewal of Dept. Chair: Dr. Michael Cohen New Orleans, LA 70118 greater New Orleans. Touro Synagogue invites Jewish studies represents an Interdisciplinary Website: http://tulanezbt.com/ you to join them, making Touro Synagogue approach to the study of the Jews, their history, a place of transformational prayer, expansive religion, language, thought, culture, literature, thought, fearless engagement, and love. and music. The Tulane University Jewish Studies program was recently ranked 9th in the nation.

2018LAISSEZ MARDI LES BONS GRAS TEMPS SEASON ROULER!

JANUARY 6, 2018 FEBRUARY 3, 2018 FEBRUARY 8, 2018 FEBRUARY 11, 2018 PHUNNY PHORTY PHELLOWS, SOCIETE DES THE MYSTIC KNIGHTS OF ADONIS KNIGHTS OF BABYLON KREWE OF OKEANOS CHAMPS ELYSEE & KREWE DE JEANNE D’ARC KREWE OF PONTCHARTRAIN KREWE OF MUSES KREWE OF MID-CITY SIGNAL BEGINNING OF CARNIVAL SEASON KREWE OF CHOCTAW KNIGHTS OF CHAOS KREWE OF THOTH KREWE OF FRERET KREWE OF BACCHUS JANUARY 27, 2018 KNIGHTS OF SPARTA FEBRUARY 9, 2018 KREWE OF NAPOLEON (MARDI GRAS) KREWE DU VIEW KREWE OF PYGMALION KREWE OF BOSOM BUDDIES KREWE OF ATHENA KREWE DELUSION ‘tit Rex KREWE OF HERMES KREWE OF CHEWBACCHUS KREWE d’ETAT FEBRUARY 12, 2018 JANUARY 28, 2018 KREWE OF CAESAR KREWE OF MORPHEUS KREWE OF PROTEUS KREWE OF LITTLE RASCALS KREWE OF CENTURIONS KREWE OF ORPHEUS FEBRUARY 4, 2018 KREWE OF EXCALIBUR FEBRUARY 2, 2018 KREWE OF FEMME FATALE FEBRUARY 13, 2018 KREWE OF CORK KREWE OF CARROLTON FEBRUARY 10, 2018 (MARDI GRAS) KREWE OF OSHUN KREWE OF KING ARTHUR and MERLIN KREWE OF NOMTOC KREWE OF ZULU KREWE OF CLEOPATRA KREWE OF ALLA KREWE OF IRIS KREWE OF REX KREWE OF BARKUS KREWE OF TUCKS KREWE OF ELKS ORLEANIANS KREWE OF ENDYMION KREWE OF CRESCENT CITY FEBRUARY 7, 2018 KREWE OF ISIS KREWE OF ARGUS KREWE OF ANCIENT DRUIDS KREWE OF JEFFERSON KREWE OF NYX KREWE OF ELKS JEFFERSONIANS

Crescent City Jewish News • SOURCE 5778 31 NOLA ENTERTAINMENT Sponsored by Nola’s at’s Entertainment

MONTHLY LISTING OF NEW ORLEANS CELEBRATIONS

MAY 2017 2018 New Orleans Wine & Food Experience OCTOBER JANUARY (TBA) Treme Fall Festival (9/29-10/1) Allstate Sugar Bowl (1/1) New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Art for Arts’ Sake (10/7) Twelfth Night Celebration (1/6) Weekend ll (5/3-6) Oktoberfest (10/7-8, 10/14-15, 10/21-22) 1st Annual Coastal Fashion Week (1/15-22) NOLA Veggie Fest (TBA) Beignet Fest (10/7) King Cake Festival (1/28) Zoo-To-Do (5/4) New Orleans Film Festival (10/11-19) Mardi Gras Parade Season Starts (1/27) Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo (5/18-20) Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival FEBRUARY JUNE (10/13-15) Lundi Gras (2/12) Creole Tomato Festival (TBA) Krewe of Boo Parade (10/21) Mardi Gras (2/13) Cajun & Zydeco Festival (TBA) Oak Street Po-Boy Festival (10/22) Voodoo Music & Arts Experience (10/27-29) MARCH JULY Soul Fest (TBA) Essence Music Festival (7/5-9) NOVEMBER Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon (3/4) Running of the Bulls (7/14) Words and Music Festival (11/9-11/13) New Orleans Bourbon Festival (3/8-10) Tales of the Cocktail (7/17-22) Treme Creole Gumbo Festival (11/18-19) Buku Music and Art Project (TBA) Festigals (TBA) Thanksgiving Day (11/23) Fashion Week Nola (TBA) AUGUST Celebration in the Oaks (11/24-1/1/17) Congo Square New Rhythms Festival Bayou Classic (11/25) Satchmo SummerFest (8/3-5) (TBA) Whitney White Linen Night (8/4) DECEMBER Spring Fiesta (3/3-4 and 3/10-11) COOLinary New Orleans (8/1-31) Words and Music Festival (12/6-10) Hogs for the Cause (3/23-24) Red Dress Run (8/11) Celebration in the Oaks Run/Walk (12/9) Tennessee Williams Festival (3/21-26) Dirty Linen Night (8/11) New Orleans Bowl (12/16) Crescent City Classic (3/31) SEPTEMBER Zoo Year’s Eve at Audubon Zoo (12/31) APRIL Crescent City Countdown at Jackson Southern Decadence (8/30-9/3) Freret Street Fest (4/7) Louisiana Seafood Festival (9/1-3) Square (12/31-1/1/18) French Quarter Festival (4/12-15) Meeting of the Streetcar Krewes (12/22) Restaurant Week (9/10-16 ) Zurich Classic (4/23-29) Fried Chicken Festival (9/22-23) (PHUNNY PHORTY PHELLOWS & SOCIETE New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival DES CHAMPS ELYSEE) Weekend I (4/27-29)

32 Crescent City Jewish News • SOURCE 5778 NOLA ENTERTAINMENT

ALLWAYS LOUNGE FRENCH MARKET MARDI GRAS WORLD PHARMACY MUSEUM www.theallwayslounge.net www.frenchmarket.org www.mardigrasworld.com www.pharmacymuseum.org Lounge Phone: 504-218-5778 Phone: 504-522-2621 Phone: 504-361-7821 Phone: 504- 565-8027 2240 St, Claude Ave. 2 French Market Place 1380 Port of New Orleans Place 514 Chartres St. • New Orleans, LA New Orleans, LA New Orleans, LA New Orleans, LA PRESERVATION HALL ASHE’ POWER HOUSE THEATER FRITZEL’S MONTELEONE HOTEL CAROUSEL BAR www.preservationhall.com www.asjecac.org/main/ www.fritzelsjazz.net www.hotelmonteleone.com Phone: 504-522-2841 1750 Baronne St. Phone: 504-586-4800 Phone: 504-523-3341 726 St Peter St. • New Orleans, LA New Orleans, LA 733 Bourbon St. • New Orleans, LA 214 Royal St. • New Orleans, LA THE PRESBYTERE AUDUBON NATURE INSTITUTE GALLIER HOUSE THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM lsm.crt.state.la.us ATTRACTIONS www.hgghh.org Phone: 504-528-1944 Phone: 504-568-6968 www.auduboninstitute.org Historic French Quarter Home www.nationalww2museum.org 751 Chartres St. • New Orleans, LA Phone: 800- 774-7394 Phone: 504-525-5661 BB’s Stage Door Canteen RIVERTOWN THEATERS FOR THE Audubon Aquarium of the Americas 1132 Royal St. • New Orleans, LA Phone: 504-528-1943 PERFORMING ARTS Audubon Park: HARRAH’S NEW ORLEANS CASINO 945 Magazine St. • New Orleans, LA www.rivertowntheaters.com Cool Zoo, the wild and wet splash park www.harrahsneworleans.com THE NEW CANAL LIGHTHOUSE Phone: 504-461-9475 Golf Course Phone: 800-427-7247 www.saveourlake.org 325 Minor St. • Kenner, LA Clubhouse Café 8 Canal St. • New Orleans, LA Phone: 504-282-2134 SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO Nature Center 8001 Lakeshore Dr. • New Orleans, LA Audubon Zoo HERMANN-GRIMA HOUSE www.snugjazz.com Butterﬂy Garden and Insectarium www.hgghh.org NEWCOMB ART GALLERY Phone: 504-949-0696 Entergy IMAX Theatre Phone: 504-525-5661 www.newcombartgallery.tulane.edu 626 Frenchman Street 820 Street Louis St. • New Orleans, LA Phone: 504-865-5328 New Orleans, LA 70119 BEAUREGARD-KEYES HOUSE Woldenberg Art Center SOUTHERN REPERTORY THEATRE www.bkhouse.org THE JAZZ PLAYHOUSE https://www.sonesta.com/us/louisi- Tulane University www.southernrep.com Phone: 504-523-7257 New Orleans, LA 70118 1113 Chartres St. • New Orleans, LA ana/new-orleans/royal-sonesta-new- Phone: 504-522-6545 orleans/jazzplayhouse NEW ORLEANS BALLET ASSOCIATION (NOBA) New Orleans, LA 70125 BLUE NILE Phone: 504-553-2299 www,nobadance.com SOUTHERN FOOD & BEVERAG EMUSEUM www.bluenilelive.com 300 Bourbon St. • New Orleans, LA Phone: 504-522-0996 www.southernfood.org Phone: 504-948-2583 935 Gravier St. #800 532 Frenchmen St. • New Orleans, LA JACKSON SQUARE Phone: 504-569-0405 751 Decatur St. • New Orleans, LA New Orleans, LA 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. BROADWAY IN NEW ORLEANS THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ NATIONAL New Orleans, LA 70113 www.neworleans.broadway.com THE JEFFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS HISTORICAL PARK THE SPOTTED CAT Phone: 800-218-7469 SOCIETY www.jpas.org www.nps.gov www.spottedcatmusicclub.com Saenger Theater Phone: 504-589-4806 1111 Canal St. • New Orleans, LA Phone: 504-885-2000 Phone: 206-337-3273 118 Clearview Pkwy. • Metairie, LA 916 North Peters Street 623 Frenchmen St. • New Orleans, LA THE CABILDO New Orleans, LA SUMMER LYRIC THEATRE AT TULANE www.lsm.crt.state.la.us LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART (NOMA) UNIVERSITY Phone: 504-568-6968 www.lepetittheatre (includes BESTHOFF SCULTURE www.summerlyric.tulane.edu 701 Chartres St. • New Orleans, LA 504-522-2081 616 Street Peter Street GARDEN) Phone: 504-865-5269 CANDLELIGHT LOUNGE New Orleans, LA www.noma.org 104 Dixon Hall • New Orleans, LA www.candlelightlounge.net Phone: 504-658-4100 [email protected] TEATRO WEGO! 925 N. Robertson 1 Collins Diboll Circle www.jpas.org Phone: 504-525-4748 LOUISIANA CHILDREN’S MUSEUM New Orleans, LA www.lcm.org 177 Sala Avenue • Westwego, LA New Orleans, LA NEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION Phone: 504-523-1357 THE 1850 HOUSE CITY PARK www.neworleansopera.com 420 Julia St. • New Orleans, LA lsm.crt.state.la.us www.neworleanscitypark.com Phone: 504-529-7668 Phone: 504-524-9118 Phone: 504-483-9412 LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 616 Girod Street #200 523 Street Ann St. • New Orleans, LA 1 Palm Dr. • New Orleans, LA www.lpomusic.com New Orleans, LA Phone: 504-523-6530 TIPITINA’S CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER THE NEW ORLEANS SHAKESPEARE FESTI- 1010 Common St, Suite 2120 www.tipitinas.com www.cacno.org VAL AT TULANE New Orleans, LA Phone: 504-895-8477 Phone: 504-528-3805 www.neworleansshakespeare.tulane.edu 501 Napoleon Ave • New Orleans, LA 900 Camp St. • New Orleans, LA MADAME JOHN’S LEGACY Phone: 504-865-5105 https://www.crt.state.la.us/louisiana- VALIANT THEATER AND LOUNGE CRESCENT CITY FARMERS MARKET 1332 Audubon St. • New Orleans, LA state-museum/online-exhibits/ www.valianttheatre.com www.crescentcityfarmersmarket.org THE NOLA PROJECT (Theatre Company) madame-johns-legacy/index Box Ofﬁce Phone: 504-298-8676 Phone: 504-861-4488 Phone: 504-568-6968 www.nolaproject.com Phone: 504-289-2634 6621 Street Claude Ave. DOS JEFES CIGAR BAR 632 Dumaine St. • New Orleans, LA New Orleans, LA www.dosjefes.com 2716 Magazine St. • New Orleans, LA MAISON BOURBON JAZZ CLUB VAUGHAN’S LOUNGE Phone 505-891-8500 OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART http://www.maisonbourbon.com/ Phone: 504-947-5562 5535 Tchoupitoulas St. www.ogdenmuseum.org Phone: 504-522-8818 800 Lesseps St. • New Orleans, LA New Orleans, LA 641 Bourbon St. • New Orleans, LA Phone: 504-539-9600 VOODOO MUSEUM FORT PIKE 925 Camp St. • New Orleans, LA MAPLE LEAF www.voodoomuseum.com www.lastateparks.com OLD U.S. MINT www.mapleleafbar.com Phone: 504-680-0128 Phone: 504-662-5703 lsm.crt.state.la.us Phone: 504-866-9359 724 Dumaine St. • New Orleans, LA 27100 Chef Menteur Hwy. 8316 Oak St. • New Orleans, LA Phone: 504-568-6968 New Orleans, LA 400 Esplanade St. • New Orleans, LA WESTWEGO PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE www.jpas.org 177-A Sala Avenue • Westwego, LA

Crescent City Jewish News • SOURCE 5778 33 BATON ROUGE GEAUX BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY RESOURCES CONGREGATION B’NAI ISRAEL JEWISH LIFE AT LSU 3354 Kleinert Avenue JEWISH FEDERATION OF Baton Rouge, LA 70806 A minor degree is offered with courses and GREATER BATON ROUGE 225-343-0111 faculty from a variety of humanities and social 4845 Jamestown, Suite 210 Jordan Goldson, Rabbi science disciplines. Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Barry Weinstein, Rabbi Emeritus Joseph Kronick, Director Ellen Sager, Executive Director Deborah Sternberg, President Professor of English [email protected] Cathy Duplechin Office Administrator 212-A Allen Hall www.jewishbr.org offi[email protected] Louisiana State University Hours of Operation— www.bnaibr.org Baton Rouge, LA70803 M-F 9am – 2pm Congregation B’nai Israel is celebrating over [email protected] Closed Wednesdays 150 years as one of the oldest Reform congre- ph: 225-578-3082 gations in the U.S. It is an active and vibrant SYNAGOGUES/ fax: 225-578-4129 temple with diverse membership and leader- CHABAD AT LSU TEMPLES/CENTERS ship. 2811 Calanne Avenue Baton Rouge, LA 70820 BETH SHALOM SYNAGOGUE EARLY CHILDHOOD/ Phone: 347-515-0835 9111 Jefferson Highway YOUTH GROUP www.ChabadBR.com Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Rabbi Peretz and Mrs. Chaya Muska 225-924-6773 ALFRED G. RAYNE LEARNING CENTER Kazen, Directors Thomas Gardner, Rabbi 9111 Jefferson Highway Various activities are offered throughout each [email protected] Baton Rouge, LA 70809 semester for interested Jewish collegians. www.Bethshalomsynagogue.org. 225-924-6772 HILLEL AT LSU: Beth Shalom Synagogue is a “family style” Reform Dottie Smith, Director Numerous activities for a small but active group congregation with a hamish, relaxed atmosphere. Infant care through pre-kindergarten center of students. Planned activities include an on Our joy in expressing our Judaism is exponentially emphasizing Judaism- customs and culture. campus sukkah, in home Shabbat dinners, and increased when shared with our congregational fam- BATON ROUGE FEDERATION OF TEMPLE Taglit-Birthright Israel affiliation. ily. The essence of our shul family is truly the sum of YOUTH (BARFTY) www.hillelatlsu.org the uniqueness and diversity of our members. www.nfty.org/so/tygs/barfty Sharon A. Weltman, Faculty Advisor CHABAD OF BATON ROUGE Email: [email protected] 2811 Calanne Avenue SIGMA ALPHA MU FRATERNITY: Baton Rouge, LA 70820 Phone: 347-515-0835 Epsilon Eta chapter was officially recognized by the www.ChabadBR.com LSU Inter-Fraternity Council in 2005. It prides itself Rabbi Peretz and Mrs. Chaya Muska on the character and diversity of its members. Kazen, Directors Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity Chabad of Baton Rouge serves the needs of the LSU Box #25415 greater Baton Rouge area. The center provides Baton Rouge., LA 70803 adult education, children’s programs and many www.lsusam.com other activities throughout the year. For more information, please visit our website. Shaw Center for the Arts-- 12th Baton Rouge WWW.BRJFF.COM Manship Theatre JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL *Films will be 100 Lafayette January 10, 2018 announced soon! Baton Rouge, LA 70808.

34 Crescent City Jewish News • SOURCE • 2017 TOURO FOUNDATION Philanthropy Funds Touro Foundation

hilanthropist Judah Touro might be stunned to learn the “Hebrew” hospital he founded in 1852 would not only be fully functioning Pmore than 165 years later, but would be a modern, state-of-the-art healthcare facility. Touro created his hospital during an era when Jewish benevolent associations fl ourished out of necessity. It was with those same Jewish values of protecting its own institution that the Touro Foun- dation was founded in 1991. It is an independent hospital auxiliary that collects funds to expand and support the ongoing patient and medical staff services off ered by Touro Infi rmary. Prior to the creation of the Touro Foundation, the board of directors was made up entirely of staff physicians and other members of the local Jewish community. “I wanted to invite non-physicians and non- Jews to the board,” explained Joseph Friend, an attorney who is credited with organizing the Touro Foundation from its inception and was its fi rst president. “It was a community hospital as far as I Today, Touro Foundation off ers various oppor- e highlight of the event is the presentation was concerned.” tunities for individuals to support Touro through of the Foundation Board’s annual Judah Touro ere was some initial pushback from Touro In- philanthropy. Young professionals (45 years and Society award. First awarded in 1989 to Stephen fi rmary board members. “Some of the board mistak- under) can belong to the 1852 Society. e other Goldring of blessed memory, this year’s recipient enly thought that Judah Touro indicated in his will societies include the Judah Touro Society and the will be Dr.Tom Oelsner. Oelsner has practiced that all of the members should be Jewish,” Friend Bensadon Physicians Giving Society, named for for more than 40 years at Touro and is known for continued. “ ere was not, but there was something the fi rst medical director of Touro Infi rmary and his dedication to his profession, leadership as a that said that in the articles of incorporation.” Touro’s personal physician. hospital department head and his exceptional and Starting in the period of the late 1980s, Touro e major annual fundraiser is the Touro compassionate patient care. Infi rmary board members were looking to attract Foundation Gala which is will be held this year on rough the Touro Foundation, Touro Infi r- more money for its capital campaigns. Saturday, November 4, 2017 at the Mardi Gras mary has created funding for a number of new “We thought that if the Foundation’s primary World complex. e event is a semi-formal social programs. ese include providing infant CPR purpose was to raise and protect money, than that that begins with an exclusive Patron’s Party at 5:00 classes, purchasing innovative and cutting-edge would be something that could be done by a board pm followed by a cocktail reception. Beginning at medical equipment, raising funding for patients whose primary interest was not medical care,” 7:00 pm a lavish dinner will be served, which will who require charitable care and incorporating new Friend said. “But we wanted the board to support culminate in a post-gala gathering, L’Dor V’Dor software to guarantee the latest medical techniques Touro Infi rmary only.” (“generation to generation”). are employed.

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Crescent City Jewish News • SOURCE 5778 35 ARNIE FIELKOW Federation CEO Arnie Fielkow returns home

rnie Fielkow is the fi rst CEO for the Jewish Fielkow: Oh, very much so. Yes. Federation of Greater New Orleans. He CCJN: No one who has occupied the position you is the tenth person to occupy the position are in, whether it is be executive director or now CEO previouslyA named as executive director. Fielkow of Federation has had as much administrative experi- recently served at the CEO of the National ence – running a city – as you have. How do you Basketball Association (NBA) Retired Players think that helps you in order to do your new job here? Association, a position he held for the previous six Fielkow: I think having been on the City years in Chicago. Prior to that, Fielkow lived in Council and seeing all of the topics that come to New Orleans with his wife, Dr. Susan Fielkow, and you is great background for this type of posi- their children for 12 years. During that period, he tion. ey have similarities in the sense that we’re was twice elected as president of the City Council serving constituents. In the city obviously it’s of New Orleans after serving as executive vice four- or fi ve-hundred thousand constituents. With president of the New Orleans Saints NFL franchise Federation we have 11,000 members of the Jewish for six years . community, all diff erent (with) diff erent issues Fielkow agreed to an exclusive interview with and needs. So, I think the city background on the the CCJN, which took place in the third fl oor Council provided a great background for this. conference room of the Federation in September CCJN: Could you give a little background on of 2017. your Jewish religious experience prior to your roles CCJN: You’ve talked about this being your dream as an executive for sports franchises and on the City job. You’ve had a lot of dream jobs. You’ve worked Council? with the Saints. You’ve worked with the NBA Retired Fielkow: Well, I think I have a long and deep Players Association. is is the latest dream job. How Jewish background. I grew up in central Wiscon- did this all come about? sin. Arnie Fielkow is the fi rst CEO and the tenth person to occupy the top Federa- Fielkow: Well, fi rst of all, we wanted to get CCJN: Appleton? tion position. (Photo by Alan Smason) back to New Orleans. (We) were excited about Fielkow: Appleton, Wisconsin in a commu- coming back to a community that we love. nity of about 100 Jewish families, so we had a CCJN: Right. tight-woven Jewish community there, albeit small. the J.V. level at college, so I’ve always had a great Fielkow: I was approached by somebody rela- I went to camp in Wisconsin at Camp Ramah, interest in sports and developed a 25-year history tive to the Federation opportunity and the more which I think everybody knows is a Conservative and career in sports. that I learned about it the more interested that I camp. (I) spent fi ve years at Camp Ramah. at CCJN: Although jokes have been made about became. Great work is being done by the Federa- was a great background and then while we were the smallest book in the world being “Famous Jewish tion and the ability to help people and impact lives in New Orleans we were very active in the Jewish Sports Heroes,” we’ve come to nd out the opposite is is something that is similar to what I did with the community serving on a number of boards of true. ere are really a lot of Jews who have excelled City Council and something that I was interested directors from the Federation to the JCC to many in sports. Were there some that you recall having in. other Jewish and non-Jewish organizations in the grown up with that are representative of “the Tribe?” CCJN: How long a period was it that you were community. I was very fortunate to have received Fielkow: I think every child growing up in my dealing with this (search) process? the (A.I. “B” Torch of Liberty) Botnick Award generation probably looked at Sandy Koufax be- Fielkow: We left in 2011 and so we’ve been from the Anti-Defamation League some years ago. cause baseball was such a prime sport at the time. gone for almost six years. I think I heard about the CCJN: Yes. You admired him. You admired him not pitching Federation opportunity probably ten months ago, Fielkow: So, I think I have a pretty vast Jewish on the High Holy Days and you admired his abil- so it was a long process…during the search process. background. In all the jobs that I’ve had I’ve tried ity and his willingness to speak about his Jewish CCJN: Well, if you’re looking for a job, that’s ne, to bring a Jewish tradition and some of the Jewish values. During the course of my career, though, but you’ve also got a physician wife who has to also values to those jobs. I met many other Jewish players. I spent a lot of relocate. How did that happen? Was that something CCJN: What drew you into the sports world? time with Dolph Schayes when he was alive in my that was fortuitous too? Weren’t you a minor player yourself? past job. We had an opportunity to talk about his Fielkow: Yeah. My wife had received an Fielkow: A minor player is probably a good life. Danny Schayes, his son, (who) was a longtime opportunity at Ochsner to go back and be with word. No, I played basketball at a high school NBA player is Jewish. We actually had the MVP the institution and to lead the eff orts to head the level. I actually made the U.S. National Team for of the Southern League (Joc Pederson) who was a developmental pediatrics unit they were building. the Maccabi Games in Israel back many years ago Jewish guy and I got to know him a bit. He’s now She was excited to do so and it fi t in nicely with when I was in better shape -- with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Along the time, I our desire to come back to New Orleans. CCJN: Did you get to meet (Israel basketball came across diff erent Jewish athletes, got to know CCJN: You’ve raised how many kids in and out of star) Tal Brody back then? them a little bit and got to know their perspectives. New Orleans? Fielkow: I met Tal. We became very good CCJN: Let’s go back over some of the points you Fielkow: ree boys and two girls, all grew up friends. e U.S. team took a silver medal in those made at the Starry Soirée event, your rst public at some stage in their life here. games. Federation appearance as CEO. First, you said it was CCJN: Was the family happy to come back here, CCJN: Very nice. important to de ne the members of the community especially those that had obviously lived here before? Fielkow: It was a lot of fun. I played tennis at and what Federation stands for. How are you follow-

36 Crescent City Jewish News • SOURCE 5778 ARNIE FIELKOW ing up on that? What are some of the things you are doing and initiating? Fielkow: We’re at the very early stages of it, but I think it’s important as we go forward here to kinda identify clearly within the Jewish community what the agenda is, both the chairman of the board, Henry Miller, and myself. I think we’ve tried to do that in our speeches at the gala, through our video that was put up in advance of the High Holidays to give some people within the Jewish community a sense of where this organization might go. Branding outside the Jewish community is very important as well CCJN: How so? Fielkow: I think it’s important that the community-at-large understand who we are, what we do, what groups we service, how impactful we are to a Jewish and (a) non-Jewish world. We’ll be getting out in front of diff erent groups. We’re about to make a senior hire that’s going to lead us in external relationships. We’re going to be in front of the City Council in December with a presentation. We hope to get active legislatively in Baton With wife Dr. Susan Fieklow at center, Arnie Fielkow is surrounded by family members. (Photo by Alan Smason) Rouge. So, there’s a lot in terms of the branding of the Federation that will be coming down the pike. CCJN: e fact you’ve had such a public face be- Fielkow: Yeah fore should help you with an incursion into City Hall? CCJN: As far as Federation goes, how are you Fielkow: I think my past experience opens trying to reach out to other groups within this com- some doors and will give us an ability to hopefully munity and what are some of the programs you are attract some more media attention to the Federa- looking to implement? tion. I think that’s important and also to be able to Fielkow: I think it’s important that all the make presentations, to be able to have the entrée to groups we have affi liated with us from JNOLA be able to get into those. – whether it be Gift of Israel in reaching teens – CCJN: e second point you made was about whatever it may be. e more we can do to make fundraising. Obviously, that’s the bottom line for people feel that Federation is a welcoming place Federation. You even addressed the possibility that we and that there’s something we off er no matter what might even hit the $3 million or more level. their diversity may be – whether it’s age diversity Fielkow: Well, I set it as a goal. We have to be – whether it’s synagogue affi liation – their feelings honest where we’ve been. We’ve been fl at at the toward Israel – whatever the diversity that exists in $2.6 million number now for seven or eight years. a community and we certainly have that diver- It’s important for Federation to start to elevate sity – we need to make sure that the Federation that. It needs to drive some energy and some is perceived as a place where every member of the excitement in the community. You need to tell Jewish community feels there’s something we off er your story as to how dollars are being used. You that will be of interest to them. know, one of the things I spent some time at the CCJN: What do you think are some of your gala talking about was: we don’t just raise money to strong points – a di erent manner in which you will raise money. We raise money to help people. be approaching this new job – as opposed to someone Arnie Fielkow at Starry Soiree event in August of 2017. (Photo by Alan CCJN: Right. else who might have held this position? Smason) Fielkow: You have to be able to tell those hu- Fielkow: I’d like to think that I have credibility opportunities for us. I think when you put it all man stories and go into depth of the agencies that in the community because of the past positions together, Federation needs strong leadership. We’re benefi t from the money that we allocate. My goal I’ve held. What the community will fi nd is that very blessed with lay leadership. We have a great as well as David Radlauer and Julie Schwartz’s – (I’m) somebody who will be a great advocate for staff in this offi ce that works very hard and I hope our new campaign chairs – and Henry Miller, our what the Federation does, somebody that is going to contribute to that. chairman of the board – all of our goals – is that to work very hard to try to tell the Federation we want to elevate the campaign and we would be story, to be able to develop disappointed if we don’t start to elevate it. I think relationships again com- it’s a new day and a new time. If ever there was a munity wide – Jewish and time to re-energize an organization, this is it. non-Jewish – somebody CCJN: You also mentioned welcoming diversity that with the help of our in New Orleans. New Orleans is pretty diverse to lay leadership is going to begin with. look at revenue sources and

Crescent City Jewish News • SOURCE 5778 37 JEWISH MEDICINE IN NEW ORLEANS Better Than Chicken Soup: Healing and Charity in the Big Easy

By ALAN SMASON s New Orleans prepares to celebrate its tricentennial, the traditional Jewish mandate of caring for the sick and infirm has enteredA a vastly different period than those days in which factors of self-preservation and prejudice demanded a local Jewish hospital. Jewish tradition holds that pikuach nefesh – “the saving of a life” – soars above all other Command- ments. e Talmud even permits violation of Biblically mandated laws, such as observance of the Sabbath, if done in the furtherance of saving a life. During the Middle Ages, Jews were afforded equal opportunities to learn the art of healing. No less than the noted Jewish philosopher and scholar Moses Maimonides, also known as the Rambam, was himself a 12th century Spanish physician. It was the Rambam who wrote that “the study of medicine has a very great influence on the acquisition of the virtues and of the knowledge of God, as far as on the attainment of true spiritual happiness. erefore, its study and acquisition are preeminently important religious activities.” Once Jewish immigration increased in this An advertisement from 1852 shows an image of the original Touro Infirmary with patient rates from $1 to $5 per day and the slave rate set at $1. (Images courtesy Touro Infirmary Archives) country, there were organized efforts in Jewish communities to establish their own hospitals for New Orleans” established in 1852 by Judah Touro e first Touro In- the care of their own people, lest they become and later named the Touro Infirmary in his honor. firmary located along a burden on the mainstream society. ere was At the time of the hospital’s founding, New the bustling riverside some concern that Jews on their death beds might Orleans was the nation’s busiest port. Local com- was just 28 beds and become proselytized or converted by well-meaning merce was led by the twin commodities of sugar was leased to Touro’s Christians interested in their “salvation.” Jewish and cotton, aided respectively by the process of personal physician, hospitals respected Jewish observance including the granulation and the invention of the cotton gin. Dr. Joseph Bensadon, laws of kashrut and visitation by Jewish clergy. In Slaves and stevedores stacked sugar sacks and bales until the advent of the later years anti-Semitism reared its ugly head with of cotton along the riverside wharves awaiting Civil War when he ac- the imposition of quota systems that restricted the transport by steam-powered vessels cruising the cepted a commission number of Jews accepted at medical schools and Mississippi River. and appointment as Dr. Joseph Bensadon on staff at hospitals. Jewish teaching hospitals and A busy port meant a steady stream of foreign the Surgeon General medical schools sprang up in response. visitors and proper medical care for those mariners of the Confederacy. Beginning in the – many of them afflicted with malaria, syphilis and Bensadon had leased the hospital for a modest an- pre-Civil War era and typhoid – as well as overworked slaves and several nual sum of $75 and records show that slaves and up through the late sick indigent Jews. Summertime brought waves of seamen accounted for a majority of those admitted th 20 century, there yellow fever victims, who also required a place of for care at that time. Advertisements at the time were an estimated healing and qualified doctors and a medical staff indicated patient charges from $1 to $5 per day 113 Jewish hospitals that could care for them. with slaves assessed a $1 per day charge to be col- founded across this Mosquitoes left unchecked meant regular lected from their masters. country in response yellow fever attacks, which cut across all cultures However, without its now-deceased benefactor to this particular form in the diverse society of antebellum New Orleans. and its medical administrator in the Confederate of anti-Semitism and When Touro arranged for the purchase of the Army, the hospital languished, further threatened a desire to take care Paulding Mansion on Gaienne and Old Levee by the possible occupation of the city by Union of those members of Judah Touro Streets with the intention of converting it into a forces and the confiscation of all medical facilities. the Jewish community hospital, it was just prior to the worst of the out- So, when no bid was received at public auction, who required care and breaks to ever hit the city in 1853. An estimated it was determined by the non-sectarian board healing. One of these was “the Hebrew Hospital of 10,000 people died that year. composed of both Jews and non-Jews in 1861 that

38 Crescent City Jewish News • SOURCE 5778 TOURO INFIRMARY the facility should be converted into a home for the Jewish aged. Following the actual capture of the city in 1862 by Union naval forces under the command of Admiral Farragut, the Jewish home was maintained and within a few years slowly converted back into a hospital. While still under the yoke of Reconstruction, the board of managers – now composed entirely of Jews – set about the task of renovating the existing structure and preparing Touro Infirmary for its most expansive period. In very late December of 1868 the hospital reopened in its original location along the busy and noisy riverfront. It was just in time because another major yellow fever outbreak was to occur in 1870. at yellow fever abated during Reconstruction is attributed in part to the forced sanitary regulations and quarantining of victims put into place during the iron-fisted rule of General Benjamin “e Beast” Butler. e regulations he imposed lasted much longer than the eight months of his The charity ward of Touro Infirmary established in 1886. (All photos courtesy Touro Infirmary Archives) tenure and were, perhaps, the only good outcome of his administration of New Orleans. Yellow fever returned with a vengeance, though, after Recon- struction with major outbreaks in 1878 and 1879, severely taxing the 24-bed facility. Records indicate that more than 1,000 patients were being cared for annually at the relatively small facility in 1878. During this time the Gentlemen’s Hebrew Benevolent Association had merged with the hospital, resulting in the Touro Infirmary and the Hebrew Benevolent Society, which made the hospital the recipient of it largesse. e District Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of B’nai Brith, the Jewish service organization, forged an alliance with Touro that afforded members older than 60 years of age or those afflicted with chronic illness access to the facilities for the sum of $1 per year. During this time care for the aged and infirm This 1882 rendering of Touro Infirmary is mistitled as a hospital. began to take on larger proportions as residents in the “asylum department” increased. ere was As president of the board of managers, Weis a concern by the Touro board of managers that, oversaw massive capital campaigns that were aided because of the special relationship with B’nai by innovative programs culminating in the first B’rith, their members might demand admission to Touro Fair, which enhanced public awareness the facilities, resulting in the removal of long-term of the hospital’s worth in the eyes of outsiders. residents who were not members. Subscriptions to a New Hospital Fund increased e board of the coffers needed to establish Touro Infirmary’s managers realized the free clinic in 1881, which opened at a new facility facilities needed to at its present-day site at Prytania and Aline Streets expand and sought on a $5,000 plot of land previously used for cow leadership in the pasture. One of the most brilliant of Weis’ fund- form of the legendary raising efforts was to then raffle off the old building figure of Julius Weis By the time the World’s Industrial and Cotton (pronounced “wise”), Centennial Exposition was being held at nearby whose name was Audubon Park in 1884, Touro was expanding the heralded as one of the number of pay patients to supplement its continu- greatest benefactors ing charitable commitment to providing care for the needy and indigent. A 40% paying and 60% Julius Weis of the New Orleans non-paying patient ratio remained static through- Jewish community. The Poydras Street entrance to Touro Infirmary.

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Inmates pose on the porch of the Julius Weis Home for Aged and Infirm in 1909, among them Dr. Elizabeth Cohen (see inset photo courtesy of National Institutes of Health), the first woman physician in New Orleans. Cohen died in 1921 at the age of 101. (Photos courtesy Touro Infirmary Archives)

out this period. A free clinic opened in 1886. At the time the board also considered its long- opened in 1915. As Touro firmly established itself as a premier term care options for its elderly residents. Among the country entered medical complex, instituting major departments the longtime residents was Dr. Elizabeth Cohen, the Great War and and implementing new technologies just in time the first female physician to practice in New Or- Storyville was shut- for what became the largest wave of Jewish and leans and who managed the sewing and linen room tered, the hospital other immigrants to land in New Orleans from following her retirement in 1887. Faced with the worked in concert Europe. Would-be residents were tested under continuing need to provide care for the elderly, the with the American the supervision of house surgeon Dr. Frederick board of managers recommended the erection of a Red Cross training Loeber, establishing a long relationship between separate home for the aged and issued $15,000 in non-commissioned the Tulane and Louisiana State University Schools bonds to cover the expected cost of $25,000. Fol- officers, soldiers and of Medicine. lowing a magnificent donation of that very figure seamen in the medical In further consideration of its attachment from his children, the facility which included a field. By the time Dr. Abraham Louis Levin to the principles of a sound medical education, small synagogue, was named the Julius Weis Home the war had ended, a School of Nursing was established in 1896 to for Aged and Infirm in his honor. Weis died in the hospital was severely taxed by the worldwide provide skilled nurses as Touro careened into the 1909, but Dr. Cohen lived at the new brick facility pandemic of Spanish influenza that killed more 20th century. Additional plots of land at nearby until the time of her death in 1921 at the age of people than had died during the previous four Foucher and Coliseum Streets were purchased 101. years of war. and a drainage system installed paid for in part e early decades of the 20th century, the pe- One of the great shining medical stars who by proceeds raised from the most recent Touro riod associated with the operation of Storyville and made New Orleans his home at this time was Dr. Fair. e expanded wooden facility was outfitted the birth of jazz, was a productive one for Touro as Abraham Louis Levin, the designer of the Levin with telephone service and central heat, but most a new brick facility was finished and dedicated. A duodenal catheter, a nasogastric device still used remarkable was that it was lit by electricity. dormitory to house nurses and other students was in modern operating theaters and employed in

40 Crescent City Jewish News • SOURCE 5778 TOURO INFIRMARY

Mayor “Chep” Morrison congratulates Touro Infirmary board members on the centennial of the hospital. An early operating theater adhered “to the requirements of aesepsis,” expected modern sanitary procedures. post-surgical settings to reduce possible complica- tions. Levin was a noted researcher, who devised ways to reduce blood sugar levels before the discovery of insulin. A Polish Jew who served in the Russian Army during the Boxer Rebellion, he received a rare medal from the Czar. Later he immigrated to America, where he graduated from the Tulane University School of Medicine in 1907 and became a member of Touro’s staff almost immediately. He was a protégée of the renowned Touro chief surgeon Dr. Rudolph Matas and an associate professor at Tulane University until 1931. He later became associated with Charity Hospital as its chief gastroenterologist, while also serving as a visiting physician at Hotel Dieu. Dr. Levin also served as the president of Congregation Beth Israel and was stationed at Camp Beauregard in the Medical Reserve Corps during World War I. While Prohibition was the law of the land and a firebrand named Huey Pierce Long presided over the seat of government in Baton Rouge as governor, Touro expanded into its most recogniz- able form with the construction of a four story structure now known as the “A” building and fol- The sprawling campus of Touro Infirmary expands in the 1920s. (Inset) By 1965 the Hotense and Jacob Aron Building had expanded the census to more than 550 lowing that the “B” building on the Foucher Street beds. (Photos courtesy Touro Infirmary Archives) side of Prytania. e Julius Weis Home was closed after the re- cardiovascular surgery were offered and a number medical facilities that were not Jewish. maining few residents were accepted for processing of other modern buildings were erected or acquired Although such quota systems are highly illegal at the B’nai B’rith Home in Memphis in 1930. It over decades for physicians’ use and ancillary and socially unacceptable now, a major change marked the first time that since the hospital’s early services. that further affected Jewish hospitals took place founding that residents were not housed on site. Anti-Semitic quotas designed to restrict Jewish in the 1970s and 1980s during Maurice “Moon” e period prior to the nation’s entry into acceptance at medical schools and at hospitals Landrieu and Ernest “Dutch” Morial’s city ad- World War II was a busy one for Touro and other had limited the number of Jewish interns and ministrations. is was due to the appearance of Jewish hospitals across the country. Following the those given staff privileges at many institutions. health maintenance organizations and physicians war, construction at Jewish hospitals exploded and However, in the post-war era fondly characterized preferred organizations, which funneled Medicare- several additions to existing buildings expanded by the administration of Mayor deLesseps Story funded monies. It shifted the way in which physi- Touro’s total bed capacity to more than 450 beds. “Chep” Morrison, the heinous practice began to cians were paid and the manner in which hospitals Cutting edge treatments in departments rang- decline affording opportunities for Jewish physi- were reimbursed. ing from nuclear medicine to hemodialysis and cians to become residents or staff physicians at Many not-for-profit hospitals were bought out

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by profit-seeking enterprises in the 1990s and at Nationwide the number of Jewish hospitals has Hurricane Katrina eras during the administrations the turn of the present century. Smaller entities, waned to just 22, due to these factors and other of Marc Morial, Ray Nagin and Mitch Landrieu some Jewish, were unable to compete against outside influences. Touro remains firmly commit- has continued its commitment to ensuring the these major corporations and were forced to close. ted to the Jewish community of New Orleans, finest care for its patients and the best facilities e imposition of such major for-profit hospitals while still maintaining its non-profit status and is a for its staff, all of which are in concert with the resulted in a paradigm shift for the medical profes- member of the LCMC Health network of five hos- continuing tradition of Jewish faith and practice sion. e Touro Foundation was created to raise pitals, which includes nearby Children’s Hospital. with regard to charity and medicine. additional funds at this time. (See story p. 35) e Touro Infirmary of the pre- and post- The Not Exactly Jewish Hospital That Was By ALAN SMASON lthough founded as a not-for-profit medical facility, St. Charles General Hospital was not a typical Jewish hospital. Compared to otherA Jewish hospitals established decades earlier, its relatively late founding in December of 1972 was unusual. Unlike those Jewish facilities, the primary focus of the new enterprise was not aimed at providing care to Jewish indigents and the infirm nor to provide Jewish physicians with a place that was welcoming and free of anti-Semitic quotas. It was not unlike any other hospital found any- where across America, providing medical care to the general population. What made it unusual, though, was that the overwhelming majority of its staff of physicians was Jewish. While the building on Amelia and St. Charles Avenue was still under construction by National Medical Care, officials contacted several Touro staff physicians with offers for them to join the new hospital and populate beds with them their existing patients. “ey knew they were building this hospital and The former St. Charles General Hospital. (Photo courtesy Touro Infirmary Archives) they needed doctors to put patients in it,” explained healthcare attorney Louis Lupin, the son of Dr. a non-profit corporation and utilizing funds avail- for-profit hospital, the appraised value of the bonds Arnold Lupin, one of the original doctors associated able through Louisiana Public Facilities Authority was $9-$10 million higher than the cost to retire with the project.” So, they approached my dad and Bonds, purchased the hospital in 1974. the bonds. my Uncle Sam (Lupin) and a few other physicians, At this time a radical change in the way hos- A non-profit oundation, the Physicians New who were primarily in practice at Touro at the time pitals were reimbursed through Medicare and the Orleans Foundation was then created to place the and convinced them to move most of their patients rise of health maintenance organizations paved the funds into trust for future grants and aid to worthy over to the new place.” way for non-profit hospitals to become for-profit causes. Later, following a name change, that foun- e move created rifts between Touro Infirmary enterprises. dation is known today as the Lupin Foundation, a and the doctors and at least one partnership was e concept of a for-profit hospital is relatively lasting legacy to a former hospital. ripped apart over the move. new,” Louis Lupin continued. “Pretty much before Tenet eventually closed St. Charles General and Other noted Jewish doctors included Ken St. Charles General was built, I can’t think of a for- sold the structure to Touro Infirmary. Lupin, who Adatto and Stuart Phillips. e hospital, which had profit hospital.” formerly was on staff at East Jefferson Hospital, is between 140 and 170 beds, did affect admissions at When National Medical Enterprises (now now back on staff at Touro and his latest office is nearby Touro, according to its annual census. known as Tenet) bought the hospital from the ironically located on the fourth floor of the office ree years after its opening, the Lupins formed physicans group in 1981 in order to turn it into a building that was his former hospital.

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