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SOURCEIntroduction 4 Jewish New Orleans 5

Candlelighting Times 7

Holidays 8

Listings 10

NOLA Entertainment 26

Baton Rouge 29

Women of Valor 30

Women’s Rights 39

Women in the Rabbinate 40

Tal’s Hummus 41

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hat you hold in your hands – SOURCE 5777 – is the latest installment of the ongoing mission of the Crescent City Jewish News (www.crescentcityjewishnews.com)W to publish an accurate and convenient resource guide for the New Orleans Jewish community. When we fi rst set out to make this a reality Our family’s business savvy matriarchs (from left) Annette four years ago, we did so with the encouragement of many Smith Smason, record store proprietor, and Rosa Breen others who spoke of a void needing to be fi lled. What we Smith, drugstore owner and licensed pharmacist. didn’t expect was how quickly we would be embraced by so many outside of New Orleans or that we would receive interest. We are hoping that with suffi cient advertising several fi rst place awards for our journalistic excellence revenue throughout the year, a return to the semi-annual and design work from the Press Club of New Orleans. publication schedule could occur. We have been gratifi ed to know that our entry into the When we began to plan this year’s SOURCE, we knew print journalism market has been rewarded and that our we wanted to spotlight the many accomplishments of dedication and diligence have generated respect among our our local matriarchs. We did the research and have come colleagues and peers. up with a list of nine amazing Jewish women, all born In addition to SOURCE, we have also published our before the advent of the right to vote, who we believe semi-annual editions of e Best of the Crescent City are indicative of the highest ideals of leadership in civic Jewish News.  ese were created to increase our visibility activities or were true pioneers in their own fi elds of in the community and to encourage others to check out endeavors or the arts.  ese women dared to succeed in an our website for the latest in news and updates of interest era when the “good ole boys” reigned. We hope you enjoy to the New Orleans Jewish community. We fi rst published reading about their tremendous accomplishments and take e Best of the Crescent City Jewish News as an annual pride in the legacy they have left for we who follow. publication, but decided to expand to its present semi- In our own family, we are especially proud of our own annual publication schedule after encouragement from matriarchs – Rosa Breen Smith, of blessed memory advertisers and community members. and Annette Smith Smason. Both these women were Unfortunately, after subsidizing these publications for trailblazers in creating their own local retail businesses. A the past four years, we have come to understand that graduate from the fi rst class at Loyola University in 1916, despite our continued commitment, we are not receiving a our grandmother was one of the fi rst licensed female suffi cient amount of advertising revenue to off set our costs pharmacists in the state, while our mother turned her nor to compensate our staff for the many volunteer hours passion for music into a thriving center for pop, classical, they give each year. opera and show tunes. She was also a partner in S&S  erefore, we have decided to go back to our previous Productions, which promoted many of the top-ranked model of an annual yearbook for the New Orleans Jewish performers who appeared live in New Orleans concerts community, commencing in January. We will continue during the 1960s and early 1970s. to publish SOURCE, but will publish one additional Alan Smason, Editor edition including obituaries and other stories of local Arlene S. Wieder, Advertising and Marketing Director

4 Crescent City Jewish News JEWISH NEW ORLEANS A Historical Account of the New Orleans Jewish Community s we prepare to celebrate the upcom- ing tri-centennial of New Orleans, we should recall that our beloved founder,A Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne Sieur de Bienville, selected the site of the modern city of New Orleans because it was the highest and driest land in the area. Ignoring his chief engineer’s advice in 1718, Bienville picked an area that was well known as predisposed to periodic flooding due to frequent and heavy rainfalls and, occasionally, major storms. As a matter of fact, less than four years after its founding, the first recorded hurricane struck New Orleans, significantly crippling the area because of high water and slow drainage. Sadly, these issues still remain today, often a constant torment to local residents. As the port grew under French rule in the 18th century there were six Jewish residents listed as dwelling in the French colony. Although the French “Le Code Noir” (or “black code”) forbade permanent Jewish residents, it was never enforced. e few Torah scrolls procession at the 2012 dedication of Beth Israel. Rabbis David Pos- secular Jewish traders and merchants who ternock of Beth Israel and Robert Loewy of Gates of Prayer with local benefactor were allowed to live in the colony developed Morris Bart, center. into prosperous businessmen. credit behind the establishment of this ish families. Acceptance was crucial for these Unfortunately, once France signed the institution is given to a New York merchant, families so they could attend services together Treaty of Fontainebleau with Spain in 1762, who had moved to New Orleans named and be buried in the Jewish cemetery. ese life changed for the Jewish residents living Jacob Solis. early families were culturally Jewish, but not in the Louisiana colony. Within two years of Solis was appalled by the lack of “Jewish- very religious. the signing, the local Spanish government ness” in the city. More specifically, he was Judah Touro, who was gravely wounded banished Jews from living in the colony and frustrated there was no available matzoh while fighting the British in one of the early the government confiscated all Jewish assets. supply during the period of Passover. An- skirmishes just before the famous Battle of Monetary acquisition seemed to be the pri- other historical account suggested Solis was New Orleans, is credited with making the mary motivation, rather than anti-Semitism. also irritated because there was no place to most impact on the New Orleans commu- By enforcing the code, the local government worship in New Orleans for the Jewish High nity in the 19th century. Commonly referred was able to expropriate acquisitions that were Holidays. Regardless of his motivation, all to as the first significant Jewish philanthropist held by the wealthy Jewish residents. sources concur that Jacob Solis spearheaded in the United States, Touro purchased an e first notable affluent Jewish family the movement that successfully established Episcopal church and paid to remodel and was the Monsantos. Because they were Jew- the Gates of Mercy, which was chartered in convert the church into a synagogue. A few ish, they were expelled in 1769 and all their 1828. years later he established Touro Infirmary, possessions were confiscated. e family fled Most of the earliest Jewish families in New a charity hospital supported by the local to Pensacola, which at the time was under Orleans were interfaith unions. e pre- Hebrew Benevolent Association. When British rule. Within one year the family was dominantly Jewish males found themselves Touro died in 1854, his will directed money allowed to return, yet their property was lacking sufficient numbers of Jewish ladies. to numerous New Orleans causes and other never returned to them. Traditional Jewish laws were largely ignored Jewish institutions around the country. After the expulsion, the return of Jewish in order that their spouses and progeny Touro’s funding helped Sir Moses Montefiore citizens continued, but at a very slow pace. It would gain acceptance and be considered establish Mishkenot Sha’Ananim, the first took several decades before the Jewish com- part of an extended Jewish community. Jewish settlement outside of the Old City munity finally chartered its first synagogue, ese early compromises seemed a necessity walls in Jerusalem. called Congregation Gates of Mercy. e for the survival of the first New Orleans Jew- Congregation Gates of Prayer organized Source 5 JEWISH NEW ORLEANS

in 1850 as Shaarei Tefilah. e first members of this congregation were Jews escaping from European unrest. e members of Gates of Prayer began as a traditionally Orthodox synagogue. As the congregation grew in size, strict observance was emphasized less. By 1905, the Gates of Prayer congregation formally acknowledged their alliance with the Reform movement. Presently, Congregation Gates of Prayer has the distinction of being the only Reform congregation located in Left: Anshe Sfard interim Rabbi Yochanan Rivkin. Center: Shir Chadash Rabbi Metairie. Its spiritual leader is Rabbi Robert Deborah Silver. Right: Rabbi Matthew Remer, Temple Sinai’s senior rabbi. Loewy while Rabbi Alexis Pinsky holds the post of assistant rabbi. gation moved to a new location in Lakeview venerated Rabbi Menachem M. Schneer- Temple Sinai was founded in 1870 and in 1970, which was destroyed by floodwaters son, of blessed memory, the first shluchim was the first congregation to declare its associated with Hurricane Katrina in 2005. (emissaries), Rabbi Zelig and Bluma Rivkin, Reform affiliation. It has the largest congre- Congregation Beth Israel relocated in 2012 arrived in 1975. e mission of Chabad is to gational membership of any Jewish institu- next to Gates of Prayer in Metairie, where it bring the spiritual and material needs to dif- tion in the State of Louisiana. Originally met in a rear chapel room for several years. ferent communities with the hope of preserv- situated in what is today the Central Business Rabbi Gabriel Greenberg is the rabbi for the ing Judaic life for the future generations. District, Temple Sinai relocated in 1926 to newest house of worship in the area and is Today, the movement has grown to eight its current campus in the University area near assisted by Rabbi David Posternock, who acts shluchim couples, many of whom are the Tulane and Loyola Universities. Rabbi Mat- as the administrative director. Rivkins’ own offspring and their spouses. e thew Reimer leads the congregation as senior Congregation Anshe Sfard is the only non- organization provides many educational, so- rabbi in his first year, while Emeritus Rabbi Chabad Orthodox synagogue in Orleans cial and religious programs and activities for Ed Paul Cohn and Cantor Joel Colman Parish. Founded by Chasidic Lithuanian the community. e Btesh Family Chabad continue in their roles. Jews the congregation is located in its 1925 Center, run by Rabbi Mendel Rivkin, and e current Touro Synagogue was formed historic building on Carondelet Street. e the Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center at in 1881. is congregation was the result of interim spiritual leader is Rabbi Yochanan Tulane University, administered by Rabbi a merger between the earliest New Orleans Rivkin. Yochanan Rivkin, are located next door to synagogues, Gates of Mercy and Dispersed e Conservative movement did not one another on Freret Street in the Tulane of Judah. Its unique domed sanctuary on St. appear in the community until the middle University section. e Gerson Katz Chabad Charles Avenue was built by famed architect of the 20th century. Congregation Tikvat Center was built in 1990 and dedicated to Emile Weil in 1909 and the congregation is Shalom, initially the first Conservative Con- serve the needs of the Jewish community of currently led by the first woman senior rabbi gregation of New Orleans, emerged from a Metairie. Its spiritual leader is Rabbi Yossie of a major New Orleans synagogue, Rabbi splinter group of the Orthodox Congrega- Nemes and he is joined by his son-in-law Alexis Berk. In 2015, Touro hired Rabbi tion Chevra ilim that wanted mixed Rabbi Mendel Ceitlin. Todd Silverman to serve as the rabbinic direc- seating. e controversial concept at that In 1996, the Northshore Jewish Congrega- tor of Lifelong Learning for the synagogue. time became a nationally-watched court case tion (NJC) was chartered with 40 original Cantor David Mintz rounds out the Touro of Katz vs. Singerman. e case eventually members from the Mandeville area. In less clergy. was heard by the Louisiana Supreme Court, than ten years they had purchased a 10,000 Between the last quarter of the 19th and which ruled in favor of mixed seating for the square foot building and had grown to the beginning of the 20th centuries, many Orthodox congregation. Chevra ilim fell become a congregation of almost 100 family small and unpretentious prayer societies victim to the Jewish flight to Jefferson Parish units. ey offer weekly lay-led services and were formed from the newly-arrived Eastern in the 1970s. As the congregation grew have renewed the contract of Rabbi Deborah European immigrants. Many of these Jews older, it found its members were becoming Zecher to lead the congregation during the settling in New Orleans were escaping less observant. Eventually, the Orthodox High Holidays and to continue to perform persecution and were largely of Ashkenazic synagogue affiliated with the Conservative monthly services over the course of the next background. movement. More than 40 years after the year. Additionally, NJC offers a religious Founded in 1904, Congregation Beth initial split, the two congregations merged in school and follows the Union of Reform Israel emerged from some of these early 1999 and formed Shir Chadash Conservative Judaism’s “Chai” curriculum. groups. Also featuring a magnificent design Congregation in Metairie. Spiritual leader After almost 300 years of significant phil- by Emile Weil, the synagogue was built on Rabbi Deborah Silver is now the second anthropic and civic contributions, the local the site of former Mayor Shakespeare’s private female senior rabbi in the Greater New Jewish community remains committed to residence located on Carondelet Street near Orleans area. our beloved city as we welcome 5777. the heavily-Jewish corridor along Dryades e last Jewish movement to arrive in Street, and at one time was the largest Ortho- the Greater New Orleans area is Chabad- dox congregation in the South. e congre- Lubavitch of Louisiana. Dispatched by the

6 Crescent City Jewish News CANDLELIGHTINGCANDLELIGHTING TIMES TIMES

SEPTEMBER MARCH 2 Starts 7:03 p.m. • 3 Ends 7:56 p.m. 3 Starts 5:43 p.m. • 4 Ends 6:37 p.m. 9 Starts 6:54 p.m. • 10 Ends 7:47 p.m. 10 Starts 5:48 p.m. • 11 Ends 6:42 p.m. 16 Starts 6:46 p.m. • 17 Ends 7:38 p.m. 17 Starts 6:52 p.m. • 18 Ends 7:46 p.m. 23 Starts 6:37 p.m. • 24 Ends 7:29 p.m. 24 Starts 6:56 p.m. • 25 Ends 7:51 p.m. 30 Starts 6:28 p.m. • 1 (Oct.) Ends 7:20 p.m. 31 Starts 7:01 p.m. • 1 (Apr.) Ends 7:55 p.m.

OCTOBER APRIL Rosh Hashanah: 7 Starts 7:05 p.m. • 8 Ends 8:00 p.m. 2 Starts 6:26 p.m. • 4 Ends 7:17 p.m. 14 Starts 7:09 p.m. • 15 Ends 8:04 p.m. 7 Starts 6:20 p.m. • 8 Ends 7:12 p.m. 21 Starts 7:13 p.m. • 22 Ends 8:09 p.m. 11 Starts 6:16 p.m. • 12 Ends 7:08 p.m. 28 Starts 7:18 p.m. • 29 Ends 8:14 p.m. Yom Kippur: 14 Starts 6:12 p.m. • 15 Ends 7:05 p.m. 21 Starts 6:05 p.m. • 22 Ends 6:58 p.m. MAY 28 Starts 5:58 p.m. • 29 Ends 6:52 p.m. 5 Starts 7:22 p.m. • 6 Ends 8:19 p.m. 12 Starts 7:27 p.m. • 13 Ends 8:25 p.m. 19 Starts 7:31 p.m. • 20 Ends 8:30 p.m. NOVEMBER 26 Starts 7:36 p.m. • 27 Ends 8:34 p.m. 4 Starts 5:52 p.m. • 5 Ends 6:47 p.m. 11 Starts 4:48 p.m. • 12 Ends 5:43 p.m. 18 Starts 4:45 p.m. • 19 Ends 5:40 p.m. 25 Starts 4:43 p.m. • 26 Ends 5:39 p.m. JUNE 2 Starts 7:39 p.m. • 3 Ends 8:39 p.m. 9 Starts 7:43 p.m. • 10 Ends 8:42 p.m. 16 Starts 7:45 p.m. • 17 Ends 8:45 p.m. DECEMBER 23 Starts 7:47 p.m. • 24 Ends 8:46 p.m. 2 Starts 4:42 p.m. • 3 Ends 5:39 p.m. 30 Starts 7:47 p.m. • 1 (July) Ends 8:46 p.m. 9 Starts 4:43 p.m. • 10 Ends 5:40 p.m. 16 Starts 4:45 p.m. • 17 Ends 5:42 p.m. 23 Starts 4:48 p.m. • 24 Ends 5:46 p.m. JULY 30 Starts 4:53 p.m. • 31 Ends 5:50 p.m. 7 Starts 7:47 p.m. • 8 Ends 8:45 p.m. 14 Starts 7:45 p.m. • 15 Ends 8:43 p.m. 21 Starts 7:42 p.m. • 22 Ends 8:39 p.m. JANUARY 28 Starts 7:38 p.m. • 29 Ends 8:34 p.m. 6 Starts 4:58 p.m. • 7 Ends 5:55 p.m. 13 Starts 5:03 p.m. • 14 Ends 6:00 p.m. 20 Starts 5:09 p.m. • 21 Ends 6:06 p.m. 27 Starts 5:16 p.m. • 28 Ends 6:12 p.m. AUGUST 4 Starts 7:33 p.m. • 5 Ends 8:28 p.m. 11 Starts 7:27 p.m. • 12 Ends 8:22 p.m. 18 Starts 7:20 p.m. • 19 Ends 8:14 p.m. FEBRUARY 25 Starts 7:12 p.m. • 26 Ends 8:06 p.m. 3 Starts 5:22 p.m. • 4 Ends 6:17 p.m. 10 Starts 5:27 p.m. • 11 Ends 6:23 p.m. 17 Starts 5:33 p.m. • 18 Ends 6:28 p.m. 24 Starts 5:38 p.m. • 25 Ends 6:33 p.m.

Source 7 HOLIDAYS AT A GLANCE

Shabbat Shemini Atzeret Purim Celebrated Fridays at sundown to Eighth Day of Assembly Feast of Lots commemorate G-d’s day of rest Celebrated the day after Sukkot Joyous holiday commemorat- after six days of creation. Tradi- and thus sometimes consid- ing the rescue of the Jews by tions include lighting candles, ered an extension of that holi- Queen Esther and her uncle drinking wine and eating challah day. Marks the fi rst time tefi llat Mordecai from the evil Ha- (braided bread). Havdallah, the geshem (prayer for rain) is re- man. Traditions include parties, farewell ceremony to Shabbat, cited during services, a practice dances, gift-giving and eating takes place upon the appear- that continues until Pesach. 22 hamantaschen (3-cornered fruit ance of three stars in the Saturday Tishrei fi lled pastries). Some also fast night sky and is celebrated by before Purim to remember the lighting a braided candle. three-day fast Esther requested Simchat Torah of the Jews of Persia. 14 Adar Rejoicing for the Torah Rosh Hashanah Celebrates the completion of Jewish New Year the annual Torah-reading cycle. Passover Festive celebration during which After fi nishing the last sentence Celebrates the liberation of the individuals contemplate past, of the chapter Devarim (Deu- Israelites from slavery in Egypt. present and future actions. Tradi- teronomy), the Torah is joyously At the seder (service and festive tional foods include round challah paraded seven times around meal), the Haggadah (collection and apples with honey, symboliz- the synagogue. The new cycle of texts and commentaries on ing wholeness and sweetness for begins immediately with a read- the Exodus) is read and sym- the new year. Commences the ing from Bereshit (Genesis). 23 bolic foods are eaten. In remem- Ten Days of Awe, which culminate Tishrei brance of the departure of the on Yom Kippur. 1-2 Tishrei Israelites, who could not wait for their bread to rise before fl ee- Chanukah ing, matzoh (unleavened bread) Yom Kippur Festival of Lights is eaten for the eight days of Day of Atonement Eight-day holiday commemo- Passover. 15-22 Nissan Holiest day of the Jewish year. rating the Jewish victory over Through fasting and prayer, the Syrians and the miracle of Jews refl ect upon their relation- the rededication of the Temple, Sefi rat HaOmer ships with other people and with when oil meant to last for one Counting of the Omer G-d. Atoning for wrongdoings day burned for eight. Cel- Seven-week period that begins and failures to take the right ebrated by lighting candles in a the second night of Pesach actions. The sounding of the chanukiah (a nine-branched can- and ends at Shavuout. The 32 shofar (ram’s horn) signals the delabrum), eating potato latkes, mourning days during this time end of the holiday. 10 Tishrei playing with dreidels (spinning commemorate the deaths of tops) and giving money or gifts. Rabbi Akiva’s students. Tradi- 25 Kishev- 2 Tevet tionally weddings, festivities and Succot haircuts are prohibited during Festival of Booths this time. 16 Nissan - 5 Sivan Commemorates the fulfi llment of Tu B’Shevat G-d’s promise to bring the Israel- New Year of Trees ites to the Promised Land after 40 Biblical in origin, a holiday that Yom HaShoah years of wandering. Many people celebrates springtime renewal Holocaust Remembrance build a succah (booth), a tempo- and growth. Traditions include Day rary structure with a roof made of eating fruit and planting trees. Day chosen by the Israeli Knes- branches, modeled after the huts 15 Shevat set in 1951 to mourn the millions constructed in the desert. Also killed in the Holocaust. Often celebrated with shaking of the commemorated with speeches lulav (assemblage of palm, willow by survivors and the reading of and myrtle branches) and etrog (a names. In Israel, a siren’s blast lemon-like fruit). 15-21 Tishrei allows collective remembrance in a moment of silence. 27 Nissan

8 Crescent City Jewish News HOLIDAYS AT A GLANCE

Yom HaZikaron Shavuot Tisha B’Av Martyr and Heroes’ Festival of Weeks Ninth Day of Av Memorial Day Celebrated the day after Sefi rat Day of fasting and mourning Day of remembrance for all who HaOmer ends to commemo- commemorating the destruction sacrifi ced themselves for the rate the giving of the Torah at of the First and Second Tem- state of Israel. Public observanc- Sinai and the spring harvest. ples, both of which took place es include the lighting of yah- Traditionally, Jews read the Ten on the ninth of Av. The Book of rzeit (memorial) candles, visiting Commandments and the Book Lamentations is read, and some graves and reciting psalms. In of Ruth and eat dairy products. conduct services sitting on the Israel, sirens blast once in the Religious school confi rmation fl oor. 9 Av morning and then in the eve- often takes place at this time. ning to begin Yom HaAtzmaut, 6-7 Sivan Israel Independence Day. 4 Iyar Tu B’Av Coming after three weeks of Fast of Tammuz sadness, Tu B’Av marks one of Yom HaAtzmaut Fast from dawn until nightfall the happiest days on the Jew- Israel Independence Day commemorating the day Moses ish calendar. In modern times it On May 14, 1948, Israel was broke the fi rst Tablets of the has become a day dedicated to declared an independent state. Covenant because the Israelites love and in many ways a Jewish Many Jews worldwide celebrate made the Golden Calf. Also version of Valentine’s Day. It is with parades, festivals and do- marks the beginning of the a day highly coveted for wed- nations to Jewish charities. siege on Jerusalem before its dings. 15 Av 5 Iyar destruction. Begins the Three Weeks, a mourning period end- ing at Tisha B’Av. 17 Tammuz. Lag B’Omer Thirty-Third Day of Omer One-day suspension of the traditional mourning period during Sefi rat HaOmer. On this day, a plague affl icting Rabbi Akiva’s students ceased. Also commemorates Bar Kochba’s recapture of Jerusalem from the Romans. Celebrated with picnics and nature outings. 18 Iyar

JEWISH HOLIDAYS • 5777 • 2016-2017

Rosh Hashanah October 3-4, 2016 Yom HaShoah April 24, 2017 Yom Kippur October 12, 2016 Yom HaZikaron May 1, 2017 Succot October 17-18, 2016 Yom HaAztmaut May 2, 2017 Shemini Atzeret October 24, 2016 Lag B’Omer May 14, 2017 Simchat Torah October 25, 2016 Yom Yerushalayim May 24, 2017 Chanukah December 25, 2016 Shavuot May 31 - June 1, 2017 Tu BiShvat February 11, 2017 Fast of Tammuz July 11, 2017 Purim March 12, 2017 Tisha B’Av August 1, 2017 Passover April 11-18, 2017 Tu B’Av August 7, 2017 *Holidays begin at sundown on the evening before the day indicated.

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*CASABLANCA RESTAURANT 3030 Severn Avenue Metairie, LA 70002 Website: www.kosherneworleans.com DICKIE BRENNAN’S STEAKHOUSE DICKIE BRENNAN’S TABLEAU Kosher Supervision by LA. Kashrut Committee. 716 Iberville Street 616 St. Peter Street New Orleans, LA 70130 New Orleans, LA 70116 Phone: 504-522-2467 Phone: 504-934-3463 *CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL’S Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] MEETING ROOM/EVENT HALL Website: www.dickiebrennanssteakhouse.com Website: www.tableaufrenchquarter.com 4004 W. Esplanade Avenue Hours: Mon - Sun (4:30 - 10 pm) Metairie, LA 70002 Located on picturesque Jackson Square at Le Email: offi [email protected] For nearly 60 years, the Brennan family has been Petit Théâtre Du Vieux Carré, Tableau is Dickie Phone: 504-454-5080 perfecting the art of beef preparation in their Brennan’s newest restaurant. The culinary team Fax: 504-883-8010 family restaurants. The same level of attention led by Chef John Martin, showcases regional Website: www.bethisraelnola.com extends to the service. Because of this, discern- ingredients and classic French Creole dishes with Contact: Rabbi David Posternock ing locals as well as national publications have a modern approach. Since opening, Tableau taken notice. Accolades include Travel+Leisure, has received multiple culinary honors, including Congregation Beth Israel is available “free” to the The Daily Meal, Maxim Magazine, The Wall “One of New Orleans Best New Restaurants” community for use by civic, neighborhood, and Street Journal, and have repeatedly received by the Times Picayune. Guests enjoy a front service organizations. We have technology for Wine Spectator’s Award of Excellence. row seat to the culinary action beside the open business meetings with video conferencing, high kitchen in the main dining room, or bask in the defi nition movie display, versatile space for your beauty of Jackson Square while dining on the group or organization’s needs and much more. balcony.

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KENNY & ZIGGY’S DELI MANDINA’S RESTAURANT 2327 Post Oak Blvd. 3800 Canal Street Houston, Texas 77056 New Orleans, LA 70119 Phone: 713-871-8883 Phone: 504-482-9179 Fax: 713-871-8884 Website: www.mandinarestaurant.com Email: [email protected] Hours: Mon - Thur (11 am - 9:30 pm) Website: www.kennyandziggys.com Fri - Sat (11 am - 10 pm) Contact: Ziggy Gruber LAKEVIEW BREW COFFEE CAFE Sun (12 - 9 pm) 5606 Canal Blvd. Consider Kenny & Ziggy’s the solution to your This family-owned Italian-Creole favorite is still New Orleans, LA 70124 cravings for outstanding corned beef Reubens, housed in its signature pink building with its Phone: 504-483-7001 pastrami sandwiches, and homemade matzo trademark neon-and-wood-accented dining Email: [email protected] ball soup. The most authentic, soul-satisfying room. Family owned since 1932. ONE OF NEW Website: www.lakeviewbrew.com Jewish comfort classics are now available to be ORLEANS’ MOST POPULAR EATERIES! Hours: Mon - Fri (7 am - 8 pm) shipped directly to your door via Houston. Sat (7 am - 6 pm) MARDI GRAS ZONE SUPERMARKET Sun (7 am - 3 pm) *KOSHER CAJUN NEW YORK DELI & GROCERY 2706 Royal Street 3519 Severn Avenue Our casual cafe offers gourmet coffees and a New Orleans, LA 70117 Metairie, LA 70002 wide range of pastries and baked in-house des- Phone: 504-947-8787 Phone: 504-888-2010 serts. Additionally, our menu contains specialty Websites: www.mardigraszonesupermarket.net Hours: Mon -Thur (10 am - 7 pm) sandwiches, salads and soups. Breakfast served- www.mardigraszone.com Fri & Sun (10 am - 3 pm) daily. Lunch and dinner specials offered daily. Free The in-house café offers homemade salads, fresh Website: www.koshercajun.com high-speed WiFi for our customers. CATERING and delicious home-baked breads, hand tossed Kosher Supervision by LA. Kashrut Committee AVAILABLE! 20” brick oven pizza, and classic New Orleans Enjoy our dine-in restaurant, or order Your meat deli food. Additionally-great selection and to carry out. Kosher Cajun Is your one stop for inventory of grocery items including KOSHER, all your Kosher shopping! Full service grocery International Foods, Dairy, Vegetarian, Gluten- store with a hugh selection of Wines and Liquors. Free, and Organic. 100% Cajun (trademark) local CATERING AVAILABLE. Gift baskets, Judaica and produce and farm fresh eggs available daily. more!

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MARDI GRAS ZONE TRUCK STOP **SHAYA 52 Scogin 4213 Magazine Street I-59 at Exit 15 New Orleans, LA 70115 Hours: 6:00 AM-10:00 PM Phone: 504-891-4213 Website: www.mcnealtravel.com Email: [email protected] Website: www.shayarestaurant.com The Mardi Gras Zone Truck Stop is located In the McNeil Travel Plaza in McNeil, Mississippi at **TAL’S HUMMAS I-59, exit 15. A full service restaurant with a daily 4800 Magazine Street buffet are featured. Breakfast is always served. New Orleans, LA 70115 Website: http://ordertalsonline.com/#/ PALACE CAFÉ Hours: Daily (11 am - 10 pm) 605 Canal Street New Orleans, LA 70130 Tal’s Hummus is a quick service restaurant that Phone: 504-523-1661 offers a diverse selection of gourmet entrees Email: [email protected] & items. The Israeli inspired selections such Website: www.palacecafe.com as falafel, hummus, pita sandwiches, platters, Hours: Breakfast - Mon - Fri 8 am - 11 am kebabs, and salads are prepared with fresh Lunch - Mon - Fri 11:30 am - 2:30 pm ingredients. ORDER ONLINE for CARRYOUT, Dinner - Nightly 5:30 pm - 10 pm DELIVERY, or even DINE-IN! Jazz Brunch - Sat & Sun 10:30 am - 2:30 pm Reservations: opentable.com This classic New Orleans restaurant, located at the foot of the French Quarter, serves contem- porary Creole food in an upbeat and lively grand café. As bearers of the torch keeping Creole cuisine alive and vital, Dickie Brennan and Palace Café’s culinary team are constantly evolving traditional Creole dishes and creating a few new favorites.

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*WAFFLES ON MAPLE EXTERIOR DESIGNS BY BEVERLY KATZ OOH LA LA CONTEMPORARY GALLERIE 7112 Maple Street PO Box # 13662 524 Saint Peter New Orleans, LA 70118 New Orleans, LA 70185 (Upper Pontalba Shops at Jackson Square) Phone: 504-304-2662 Phone: 504-866-0276 New Orleans, LA 70116 ~OPENING IN NOVEMBER~ Website: www.exteriordesignsbev.com Phone: 504-522-7554 4650 W. Esplanade Ave. Beverly Katz, Landscape Designer and Owner of Hours: Daily (10 am - 6 pm) Metairie, LA 70006 Exterior Designs offers a full-service design and Come explore our exclusive store on Jackson Website: www.wafflesonmaple.com build company. The company specializes in af- Square, filled with stunning designer European Hours: Sun - Thur (8 am - 5 pm) fordably transforming unpleasant outdoor areas jewelry, gorgeous glasswork and a unique selec- Fri (8 am - 3 pm) into additional living space. Many of Beverly tion of Judaica. Closed Saturdays Katz’s design transformations have been distin- Kosher Supervision by LA. Kashrut Committee guished and have received national recognition. RUSSELL’S DRY CLEANING SERVICES Noted local projects include the Washington We are expanding to Metairie soon! Our res- 3401 Tulane Avenue Artillery Park in the French Quarter and St. taurants are the only Kosher Dairy Le Mehadrin New Orleans, LA 70119 George’s Episcopal School Commons. restaurants in the city. We are LKC certified and Phone: 504-482-3153 Chalav Yisrael. We specialize in gourmet waffles, HAASE’S SHOES AND CHILDREN’S CLOTHING Hours: Mon - Fri (7am - 5:30 pm) pizza, paninis, crepes and so much more. 8119 Oak Street Sat (8:30am - 12:30 pm) Whether it’s sweet or savory --- you will not New Orleans, LA 70118 3704 Robertson Street be disappointed. Check us out on Facebook. Phone: 504-866-9944 Metairie, LA 70001 CATERING AVAILABLE. Website: www.haases.com Phone: 504-832-1546 Hours: Mon -Fri (10 am - 5:30 pm) Hours: Mon - Fri (8 am - 4:30 pm) BUSINESS & Sat (10 am - 4 pm) Sat (8:30am - 12:30 pm) Closed Sundays BOTH LOCATIONS CLOSED SUNDAYS PROFESSIONAL Email: [email protected] BRYAN SUBARU Founded in 1921, Haase’s maintains a Reputa- Website: www.russellscleaning.com 8305 Airline Drive tion for retaining the most experienced footwear Since its beginning in 1930, Russell’s has of- Metairie, LA 70003 “fitters” in the city. The store offers the most fered the most diversified cleaning business in Phone: 888-629-2768 popular shoe brands for children and men’s the New Orleans area. It’s all inclusive services Website: www.bryansubaru.com footwear. Additionally Haase’s offers gorgeous include garments, fire & water restoration, rug Hours: Mon - Fri (8:30 am - 8 pm) newborn to size 14 clothes for boys and girls, services and on site cleaning. Commercial and Sat (9 am - 6 pm) and a variety of assorted accessories. residential pickup and delivery are offered. Closed Sundays MHA TOURS SHAYNA T. BLUM VISUAL We stock a large selection of new and used Phone: (504) 534-8642 COMMUNICATION LABORATORY Subaru cars at great prices. Our friendly and Email: [email protected] New Orleans, LA knowledgeable staff can answer all your ques- Website: www.mhatours.com Phone: 203-988-1863 tions and make your new car experience stress Email: [email protected] free. With the quality associated with Subaru ve- MHA Worldwide Tours, LLC provides special- Website: www.shaynatovablum.com hicles your new car will provide you with years of ized escorted tours for either individual travelers driving enjoyment. Bryan Subaru proudly serves or large groups. Whether uncovering stories Shayna T. Blum Visual Communication Laborato- the greater New Orleans area, North Shore and of your family’s past, paying homage to those ry is a consulting and design studio specializing the Baton Rouge communities. who fought and died for our freedom, or simply in multidisciplinary approaches to visual com- exploring the food and customs of another cul- munication design strategies. The laboratory CHATEAU DRUGS & GIFTS ture, traveling to a country other than one’s own services small and large scale projects for ad- 3544 West Esplanade Avenue S should be memorable, impactful and rewarding. vertising, branding, graphic design, and web Metairie, LA 70002 Visit the website and learn about the 2016-17 design/development. Phone: 504-889-2300 organized tours — Journey of Remembrance or Fax: 504-887-7661 the Valor and Liberation EUROPEAN SERIES. Website: www.chateaudrugsrx.com Hours: Mon - Fri (9 am - 7 pm) MIGNON FAGET Sat (9 am - 5 pm) Uptown Closed Sundays 3801 Magazine Street New Orleans, LA 70115 Founded in 1977, Chateau Drugs believes in the Phone: 504.891.2005 philosophy of “total customer service!” We pro- Email: [email protected] vide prescription medications, over the counter Website: www.mi- items, and extensive variety of gifts for all occa- gnonfaget.com sions. Most insurance and Medicare Part D Plans Hours: Mon - Sat (10 am are accepted. DELIVERY SERVICE IS AVAILABLE. - 6 pm) Other locations: Lake- side Shopping Ctr & The Shops at Canal Place A fifth generation New Orleanian, Faget Has flourished in the culture and traditions of her birthplace. Her designs and collections reflect this. Numerous collec- tions in jewelry, clothing, and glassware.

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STATE FARM INSURANCE LAKE LAWN METAIRIE FUNERAL CAMPS BRYAN SCHEXNAYDER, AGENT HOME AND CEMETERIES 1109 N. Causeway Blvd. 5100 Pontchartrain Boulevard DAY(D)/RESIDENTIAL(R) Metairie, LA 70001 New Orleans, LA 70124 *(JEWISH) Phone: 504-835-2944 Phone: 504-486-6331 Website: bryanschexnayder.com Website: www.dignitymemorial.com/ AUDUBON NATURE INSTITUTE lake-lawn-met-funeral-home HOLIDAY & SUMMER DAY CAMPS (D) Serving the greater New Orleans area, our State 6500 Magazine Street Farm agency can provide all your insurance Lake Lawn Metairie is dedicated to provide a New Orleans, LA 70118 needs for auto, renters, home owners and life wide range of options, traditional or non-tradi- Website: www.auduboninstiture.org insurance. There when things go wrong. Here to tional funeral services, ground burial, community help life go right. FREE QUOTES! mausoleum spaces, private family tombs, family The staff at the Audubon Nature Institute of- copings, and cremation and columbarium fers summer day camps and special camps at SONITROL OF NEW ORLEANS niches. Our focus is on providing each family holiday times and school breaks for students in 2217 Ridgelake Drive with personalized attention and a meaning- K-4th grades. There are choices, such as Audu- Metairie, LA 70001 ful memorialization of their loved one. We are bon’s Zoo Summer Camp, and Audubon Zoo Phone: 504-837-7144 proud members of the Dignity Memorial® net- Explorers Camp for those interested in the Email: [email protected] work of funeral, cremation and cemetery service outdoors and life sciences. These camps offer Website: www.sonitrolofno.com providers, offering quality, compassionate care unique activities like zoo hikes, hands-on science Contact: Jerri Pfi ster and service you can trust. activities, animal shows, feedings and Audubon ”Zoo Keepers” talks. Sonitrol of New Orleans is an independent So- THARP SONTHEIMER FUNERAL HOME nitrol franchise that designs and implements the 1600 N. Causeway Boulevard *BLUE STAR CAMPS (R) most effective and reliable integrated BUSINESS Metairie, LA 70001 179 Blue Star Way security systems. Sonitrol’s Security monitoring Phone: 504-835-2341 Hendersonville, NC 28739 has an exclusive sound activated intrusion detec- Email: [email protected] Phone: 828-692-3591 tion and a live audio alarm verifi cation process. Website: www.tharpsontheimerfh.com Email: [email protected] Schedule a free security assessment and learn Contact: Billy Henry, Funeral Director Website: www.bluestarcamps.com how a customized Sonitrol system exceeds conventional systems. For 100 years we have served the needs of the For over 60 years the Popkin family has been Jewish community of New Orleans. We have innovative in Jewish camping experiences. the experience, knowledge and longevity to The picturesque camp for children ages 6 – 16 respectfully work with all local Rabbis and the years is located in the heart of the Blue Ridge Cheva Kadisha committee. We are available to Mountains. Daily activities include creative arts assist your family through this entire life cycle and various outdoor sports. process. Funerals & Cremations available.

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*CAMP BARNEY MEDINTZ (R) ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE CHABAD JEWISH CENTER (JCC ATLANTA) (South-Central Region) 4141 West Esplanade Avenue 4165 Highway 129 N 3747 West Esplanade Avenue Metairie, LA 70002 Cleveland, GA 30528 Metairie, LA 70002 Phone: 504-454-2910 Phone: 706-865-2715 Phone: 504-780-5602 Email: [email protected] Website: www.campbarney.org Fax: 504-780-5640 Website: www.jewishlouisiana.com Email: [email protected] Drectorsirs: Rabbi Yossie & Chanie Nemes *CAMP GAN ISRAEL NEW ORLEANS (D) Website: http://neworleans.adl.org Education Directors: Mendel & Chaya Mushka 5210 West Esplanade Avenue Allison Padilla-Goodman, Director Ceitlin Metairie, LA 70006 Created over 50 years ago, the South Central The Chabad Jewish Center Of Metairie aptly Phone: 862-226-6777 offi ce of the ADL is dedicated to combat- serves the needs of the suburban New Orleans Email: [email protected] ing anti-Semitism and all forms of hatred and Jewish community. Since Katrina, the center has Website: www.cgineworleans.com bigotry. The organization investigates, exposes provided expanded programming and activities Director: Chaya Mushka Kazen extremism, and advocates for civil rights and including the founding of a Sunday school that Located on the campus of Torah Academy, religious freedom. currently has 4 classes. Camp Gan Israel is a month long summer camp offering innovative ideas, creative pro- ARZA CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF LOUISIANA grams and activities. In New Orleans there are 633 Third Ave., 7th Floor 7037 Freret Street two camp divisions ---- Mini Gan (3-4 yrs) and New York, NY 10017 New Orleans, LA 70118 Gan Izzy (5-12 years). Early and late care offered. Phone: 212-650-4280 Phone: 504-302-1830 Fax: 212-650-4289 Emails: *CAMP JUDAEA (R) Email: [email protected] [email protected] 48 Camp Judaea Ln. Rabbi Joshua Weinberg, President [email protected] Hendersonville, NC 28792 ARZA is the largest supporter of the IsraelMove- [email protected] Phone: 828-685-8841 ment for Reform, Progressive Judaism (IMPJ) [email protected] Website: www.campjudaea.org and the Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC). As Website: www.jewishlouisiana.com the Zionist wing of the Reform Movement. ARZA Directed by: *HENRY S. JACOBS CAMP (R) assists in bringing Reform Jews to Israel with Rabbi Zelig and Bluma Rivkin PO Box 327/3863 Morrison Rd. pre- and post-trip programming, and educa- Rabbi Mendel and Malkie Rivkin Utica, MS 39175 tional materials for Reform congregations. Chabad of Louisiana headquarters, serves as a Phone: 601-885-6042 Synagogue as well as a center for adult educa- Website: www.jacob.urjcamps.org AVODAH: THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS - NEW ORLEANS tion, children’s programs and Jewish social 7733 Maple Street events. Information about our many programs COMMUNITY New Orleans, LA 70118 and activities is accessible throughout the RESOURCE Phone: 504-861-1067 website. AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM Email: avodahnewor- (SE REGION) [email protected] 3300 PGA Blvd., Suite 970 Website: www.avodah. Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 net/new-orleans Phone: 561-835-0510 New Orleans Director: Fax: 561-835-9410 Dani Levine Email: [email protected] AVODAH strengthens Website: www.afmda.org the Jewish Community’s Tammy Karu, Director fi ght against the causes American Friends of Magen David Adom and effects of poverty (AFMDA) supports Israel’s ambulance, blood- in the United States, by services, and disaster-relief organization. MDA engaging participants serves as an emergency medical fi rst responder in service and commu- for the Israel’s 8 million people. Because it is not nity building that inspire a government agency, MDA relies on outside them to become lifelong assistance to fully fund its services. leaders for social change whose work for justice is rooted in and nourished by Jewish values.

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THE JEWISH ENDOWMENT FIDF (FRIENDS OF THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE) HADASSAH (WOMEN’S ZIONIST FOUNDATION OF LOUISIANA FIDF Southeast Region ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA) 615 Baronne Street Atlanta, GA New Orleans Chapter Suite 150 Phone: 678-250-9030 Email: [email protected] New Orleans, LA 70113 Email: Southeast@fi df.org Website: Hadassah.org/neworleans Phone: 504-524-4559 Website: www.fi df.org Contact: Charisse Sands, President Fax: 504-524-4259 Executive Director: Seth Baron Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization Email: [email protected] FIDF (Friends of the Israeli Defense Force) was of America (HWZOA) is a voluntary non-profi t Website: www.jefno.org established in 1981 by a group of Holocaust organization. With more Than 330,000 mem- Director: Saundra K. Levy survivors to provide and support educational, bers, it is dedicated to the ideas of Judaism, The Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana social, cultural, and recreational programs and Zionism, American democracy, healing, teaching began in 1967 by Jewish leaders of New Or- facilities for the heroic men and women of the and medical research. Hadassah enhances the leans. The organization established a repository IDF. FIDF has more than 120,000 supporters, health of people worldwide through its support for reserved funds. These funds are a source and 15 regional offi ces. of medical care and research at the Hadassah for as yet undreamed-of projects to nurture an Medical Organization (HMO) in Jerusalem. enduring and vibrant Jewish New Orleans.

ISRAEL BONDS JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE (Regional Offi ce in Atlanta, GA) (3 Locations) 1100 Spring Street, Suite 720 Main Offi ce: 3330 W. Esplanade Ave, Suite 600 Atlanta, GA 30309 Metairie, LA 70002 Phone: 800-752-5649 Phone: 504-832-8475 Email: [email protected] Uptown: 1426 Amelia St. Website: www.israelbonds.com New Orleans, LA 70115 Israel Bonds (Development Corporation for Is- Phone: 504-831-8475 rael) was established in 1951, Israel Bonds serves North Shore: 1403 N. Causeway Blvd. as a broker/dealer and Mandeville, LA 70471 underwriter for securies Email: [email protected] issued by the Israeli Website: www.jfsneworleans.org government. In 2013 the Director: Roselle Ungar, CFRE United States domestic Founded in 1948, Jewish Family Service` has sales exceeded $1.12 provided skilled counseling services, sup- billion. port groups, prevention programs and senior services. JFS is the exclusive representative for JEWISH CHILDREN’S Phillips’ Lifeline service, a monitored medical REGIONAL SERVICE alert system. (South-Central Region) 3500 N Causeway Blvd. JEWISH FEDERATION OF # Ste 1120 GREATER NEW ORLEANS Metairie, LA 70002 3747 West Esplanade Avenue Mailing Address: P.O. Metairie, LA 70002 # 7368 Phone: 504-780-5600 Metairie, LA 70010 Website: www.jewishnola.com Phone: 504-828-6334 Executive Director: Michael Weil Toll Free: 800-729-5277 President: Dr. Edward Soll Email: [email protected] Website: www.jcrs.org Since 1913, the Jewish Federation of Greater Director: Ned Goldberg, New Orleans has served as the central Sico- ACSW/LCSW ordinating body for the Jewish community. Its mission is to build and sustain a vibrant Greater Founded in 1855, JCRS New Orleans Jewish community and to assure is the oldest Jewish the continuity of the Jewish people in America, children’s agency in the Israel and the Diaspora. U.S. It serves across 7 regional states (AL, AR, LA, MS, OK, TN and TX) for the neediest and most challenged Jewish children from infancy through college. Jewish Camp scholarships and low interest college loans available.

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JEWISH WAR VERERANS, EDUCATION *JCC NURSERY SCHOOL JULES LAZARD POST 580 5342 St Charles Avenue 3663 Behrman Pl. PRESCHOOL - New Orleans, LA 70115 New Orleans, LA 70114 HIGH SCHOOL Phone: 504-897-0143 Phone: 504-887-3570 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] *(JEWISH) Director: Adrienne Shulman Contact: Judge Sol Gothard, Commander AUDUBON CHARTER SCHOOL The JCC Nursery School keeps its teacher to FB: https://m.facebook.com/JewishWar 428 Broadway St student ratios small, with tailored classroom activi- VeteransofAmericaNewOrleansPost?v=info New Orleans, LA 70118 ties to meet the social, emotional, intellectual and Our post is dedicated to continue the connection Phone: 504-324-7100 physical needs of each child. These scheduled between the military, local Veterans, New Orleans Principal: Ms. LaToya Brown preschool classes met either three or five days and our Jewish community. Annual Veterans Day Admissions: http://www.auduboncharter.com/ each week during the school year. The school has and Memorial Day events honor our brethren of Admissions.aspx limited spaces with an annual waiting list. blessed memory and those living. We participate Website: http://www.auduboncharter.org annually in the Community Holocaust Memorial The Audubon Charter School located in Uptown *JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL (JCDS) program held at the Jewish Community Center. New Orleans offers either Montessori or French 3747 West Esplanade Avenue immersion tracts for our students. We are an A+ Metairie, LA 70002 NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH rated public charter school for grades pK-8th. Phone: 504-887-4091 WOMEN (NCJW) DON’T MISS OUR FALL FETE ON OCTOBER Email: offi[email protected] New Orleans Section 22 from 11- 6 PM at Daneel Park on the corner Website: www.jcdsnola.org 6221 S. Claiborne Avenue of St. Charles & Octavia St. (Open to the whole Head of School: Sharon Pollin, M.Ed. New Orleans, LA 70125 community!) Jewish Community Day School is the Jewish Phone: 504-861-7788 Day School of Greater New Orleans. The JCDS Fax: 504-861-0044 mission is to instill a lifetime love of learning, Email: [email protected] invigorated by academic excellence. Children Website: www.ncjwneworleans.org are prepared to be engaged, compassionate President: Susan Kierr leaders of their communities in the US, Israel, For over one century, NCJW has been at the and the world. Strong teacher/student ratios and forefront of social change. Inspired by Jewish academic curriculum, an amazing, fully equipped values, NCJW courageously takes a Progressive campus, and kosher kitchen are just a few reasons stance on issues as child welfare, women’s rights JCDS families love their school. Lots of events and reproductive freedom. Numerous volunteer and community outreach are scheduled for the and advocacy opportunities available. B E N JA M I N F R A N K L I N H I G H S C H O O L upcoming 2016-17 school year. JCDS has both a 2001 Leon C. Simon Drive Young Baby Program (6 weeks to 18 months) and TOURO INFIRMARY FOUNDATION New Orleans, LA 70122 Day School (Pre-K to 5th Grade). 1401 Foucher Street Phone: 504-286-2600 New Orleans, LA 70115 Email: [email protected] Phone: 504.897-8435 Website: www.bfhsla.org *LOUISE HAYEM MANHEIM NURSERY SCHOOL Website: www.touro.com/foundation Admissions Director: Lynn Jenkins OF GATES OF PRAYER 4000 W. Esplanade Avenue Tickets are now available for the annual Since its founding in 1957, Benjamin Franklin Metairie, LA 70002 Touro Infirmary Foundation Gala, scheduled High School has remained the most outstaning Phone: 504-885-4339 for November 5, 2016 at Mardi Gras World. school in the area attracting the best and the Email: [email protected] The Foundation and The Judah Touro Society brightest students. Consistently ranked as a top Director: Melainie Blitz will honor STEPHEN H. KUPPERMAN for his public high school in the nation” by U.S News service to Touro Infirmary and the New Orleans and World Report, Newsweek and Business community. 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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LUSHER CHARTER SCHOOL (K-12) *TORAH ACADEMY GOODS & SERVICES Lower School Campus: 5210 West Esplanade Avenue 7315 Willow Street Metairie, LA 70006 BRYAN SUBARU SERVICE DEPARTMENT New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-456-6429 8305 Airline Drive Phone: 504-862-5110 Email: [email protected] Metairie, LA 70003 Upper School/Alcee Fortier Campus: Website: www.torahacademynola.com Phone: 888-317-6194 5624 Freret Street President: Rabbi Yochanan Rivkin Website: www.bryansubaru.com New Orleans, LA 70115 Hours: Mon - Fri (7:30 am - 6 pm) Torah Academy offers programs for children Phone: 504-304-3960 Sat (8 am - 5 pm) from 5 weeks through 8th grade. In accordance Closed Sundays Lusher is a K-12 school chartered by Advocates with Jewish tradition and through nurturing for Arts Based Education, which govern the learning environments, our students are encour- Our New Orleans area Subaru service center school. The curriculum implements cutting-edge aged to develop a lifelong passion for learning. in Metairie is proud to serve customers from all reforms in arts-based education while integrat- Appealing to the multiple intelligences of every over Louisiana. Our knowledgeable and experi- ing the latest developments in brain research. child, we employ various media, technology enced mechanics at our dealership will maximize Lusher incorporates a research based systematic and pedagogy into the Torah Academy teach- your Subaru vehicle’s performance. Additionally, approach to literacy and numeracy instruc- ing methodology. By following Common Core our mechanics can identify developing problems tion. The school is in partnership with Tulane Standards in our dual curriculum, we ensure to help you avoid future breakdowns. All ser- University. our graduates the skills necessary for contin- vices includes a multi-point vehicle inspection. ued lifelong success. Call us (504-456-6429) to schedule a school tour and come see what we’re CHATEAU DRUGS & GIFTS all about! 3544 West Esplanade Avenue S Metairie, LA 70002 Phone: 504-889-2300 Fax: 504-887-7661 Website: www.chateaudrugsrx.com Hours: Mon - Fri (9 am - 7 pm) Sat (9 am - 5 pm) Closed Sundays Chateau Drugs believes and offers the best pharmaceutical service in the area. Additionally they also have a large upscale gift department featuring lines as Elaine Gleason, Michael Aram, Michael Wainwright, Alex & Manhattan Toys to name a few PERSONALIZED SERVICE WITH FREE GIFT WRAP! Browse around while youfi ll your prescriptions! Most insurance and Medicare Part D Plans are accepted.

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HAASE’S SHOES AND CHILDREN’S CLOTHING MIGNON FAGET TOURO INFIRMARY 8119 Oak Street Uptown 1401 Foucher Street New Orleans, LA 70118 3801 Magazine Street New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-866-9944 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-7011 Website: www.haases.com Phone: 504-891-2005 Website: www.touro.com Hours: Mon - Fri (10 am - 5:30 pm) Hours: Mon - Sat (10 am - 6 pm) Touro Infirmary was founded in 1852. Touro is Sat (10 am - 4 pm) Website: www.mignonfaget.com New Orleans’ only community based, not-for- Closed Sundays Email: [email protected] profit, faith-based hospital. Touro continues to Other locations: Lakeside Shopping Center Founded in 1921, Haase’s maintains a Reputa- make a difference in the lives of people in the and The Shops at Canal Place tion for retaining the most experienced footwear New Orleans community, ensuring their health “fitters” in the city. The store offers the most A fifth generation New Orleanian, Mignon Faget needs are met with access to quality attention popular shoe brands for children and men’s has flourished in the culture and traditions of her and care. footwear. Additionally Haase’s offers gorgeous birthplace. Her designs and collections refle this. newborn to size 14 clothes for boys and girls, Numerous collections in jewelry, clothing and WOLDENBERG VILLAGE and a variety of assorted accessories. MONO- glassware. 3701 Behrman Place GRAMMING SERVICES AVAILABLE. New Orleans, LA 70114 NAGHI’S Phone: 504-367-5640 *KOSHER CAJUN NEW YORK 633 Royal St. Website: www.liveatwv.com DELI & GROCERY New Orleans, LA 70130 Woldenberg Village serves as one of the region’s 3519 Severn Avenue Phone: 504-586-8373 premiere retirement and healthcare facilities. The Metairie, LA 70002 We specialize in various one of a kind estate community consists of 60 independent living Phone: 504-888-2010 jewelry in precious stones and cuts. We offer a garden apartment homes, 60 assisted living Website: www.koshercajun.com large assortment of many antique European and apartments and 120 bed skilled nursing facility. Hours: Mon -Thur (10 am - 7 pm) rose cut diamonds. Additionally, we showcase a Shabbat services are held every Saturday on site. Fri & Sun (10 am - 3 pm) large selection of Judaica. Kosher Supervision by LA. Kashrut Committee MARDI GRAS GROUPS Kosher Cajun Is your one stop for all your Kosher OOH LA LA CONTEMPORARY GALLERIE shopping! Full service grocery store with a huge (Upper Pontalba Shops at Jackson Square) (KREWES) selection of Wines and Liquors. Gift baskets, 524 Saint Peter KREWE DU JIEUX Judaica and more! Enjoy our dine-in restaurant, New Orleans, LA 70116 www.krewedujieux.com or order Your meat to carry out. CATERING Phone: 504-522-7554 KREWE DU JIEUX was founded as the first satiri- AVAILABLE. Hours: Daily (10 am - 6 pm) cal Jewish sub-krewe, now part of the Krewe Delusion’’s unique walking parade. OCTAVIA BOOKS Come explore our exclusive store on Jackson Square, filled with stunning designer European 513 Octavia Street jewelry, gorgeous glasswork and a unique selec- KREWE DU MISHIGAS New Orleans, LA 70115 tion of Judaica. www.krewedumishigas.com Phone: 504-899-7323 Website: www.octaviabooks.com Krewe du Mishigas is another Jewish satirical Hours: Mon – Sat (10 am - 6 pm) HEALTH & FITNESS parading organization founded in 1996 and Sun (10 am - 5 pm) & MIND a sub-krewe of the Krewe du Vieux, which is known for wild satire, adult themes, and political JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER MARDI GRAS ZONE comedy, as well as for showcasing some of the Uptown Campus— 2706 Royal Street best brass and jazz bands in New Orleans. 5342 St. Charles Ave. New Orleans, LA 70117 Phone: 504-897-0143 Phone: 504-947-8787 MARDI GRAS MITZVA MAKERS Metairie Campus Websites: www.mardigraszonesupermarket.net Chariman: Dr. Hilton Title 3747 W. Esplanade Ave. www.mardigraszone.com Phone: 504-957-5310. Phone: 504-887-5158 Hours: Always Open (24/7) Website: www.nojcc.org Indoor parade of “merry makers” who bring an- Mardi Gras Zone offers a great selection and nual Mardi Gras cheer to designated Touro Infir- The JCC Fitness Centers are committed to help- inventory of grocery items including KOSHER, mary patients and seniors residing at the Malta ing members achieve positive lifestyle changes. International Foods, Dairy, Vegetarian, Gluten- House. The facilities are well-maintained and offer Free, and Organic. MGZ carries 100% Cajun state-of-the-art equipment, professionally taught (trademark) local produce and farm fresh eggs classes and a friendly and accessible staff. are available daily. A complete line of pet and MUSIC green cleaning products are stocked. The in- LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA JFS PHILLIPS LIFELINE MEDICAL 1010 Common Street, Suite 2120 house café offers homemade salads, fresh and MONITORING ALERT SYSTEM delicious home-baked breads, hand tossed 20” New Orleans, LA 70112 3300 W. Esplanade Ave. brick oven pizza, and classic New Orleans deli Phone/Fax: 504-523-6530 Suite 600 food and po-boys. Email: [email protected] Metairie, LA 70002 Website: www. lpomusic.com Email: [email protected] Music Director: Carlos Miguel Prieto Phone: 504-831-8475 ext: 128 Contact: Jane Levine Formed in 1991, the Louisiana Philharmonic Or- chestra is the oldest full-time musician-governed Jewish Family service is the exclusive represen- and collaboratively operated orchestra in the tative for Phillips Lifeline service, a monitored United States. The LPO offers a full 36-week sea- medical alert system. JFS provides installation, son with more than 120 performances, including product servicing and courtesy visitations. The classics, light classics, pops, education, family, AutoAlert button is 100% waterproof. No long park and community engagement concerts in term contracts are required. System is main- New Orleans and across multi-parish areas. tained and tested monthly.

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NEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION RELIGIOUS LIFE CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL 935 Gravier St., Suite 1940 NEW CEMETERY (ORTHODOX) New Orleans, LA 70112 CEMETERIES 4444 Elysian Fields Avenue Phone: 504.529.2278 New Orleans, LA Box Office: 504.529.3000 Historic Note: The first Jewish cemetery in the Phone: 504-283-4469 Website: neworleansopera.org greater New Orleans area was located at 2400 Contact: Marshall Gerson Saratoga Street (corner of Saratoga and Jackson New Orleans Opera Association is the only fully Avenue) It was used from 1828 - 1872. In 1957 CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL professional presenter and producer of opera in under the supervision of the rabbinic council the OLD CEMETERY (ORTHODOX) New Orleans and one of the largest opera com- remains of these first Jewish settlers were re- 4321 Frenchman Street panies in the Gulf South. Since 1943, we have moved and reintered at Hebrew Rest Cemetery. New Orleans, LA carried on the operatic tradition of “America›s Phone: 504-283-4469 First City of Opera,” where operas have been AHAVAS SHALOM (ORTHODOX) Contact: Marshall Gerson part of the musical lifeblood of the city since 4400 Elysian Fields Avenue the 18th century. This season we are presenting New Orleans, LA Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Verdi’s Macbeth, Sond- Phone: 504-837-0770 CONGREGATION GATES OF PRAYER (REFORM) heim’s Sweeney Todd, and Gounod’s Faust. For 504-905-4992 1412 Joseph Street more information and tickets, call 504-529-3000 Contact: Ken Pailet New Orleans, LA or visit neworleansopera.org. Phone: 504-885-2600 ANSHE SFARD SYNAGOGUE (ORTHODOX) 4400 Elysian Fields Avenue HEBREW REST CEMETERIES 1, 2, 3 New Orleans, LA 2100 Pelopidas at Frenchman Phone: 504-782-7218 New Orleans, LA Contact: Sandy Lassen Phone: 504-288-7922 504-895-4853 CHEVRA THILIM CEMETERY Contact: Herb Barton ASSOCIATION (CONSERVATIVE) 4824 Canal Street JEWISH BURIAL RITES New Orleans, LA PANORAMA JAZZ BAND 4321 Frenchman Street Phone: 504-782-7218 New Orleans, LA Email: [email protected] Contact: Sandy Lassen Phone: 504-782-7218 Website: www.panoramajazzband.com Contact: Sandy Lassen Contact: Ben Schenck CHEVRA THILIM MEMORIAL PARK New Orleans Jazz, Brass and KLEZMER BAND. 5000 Iberville Street 2015 marks our 20th year serving greater New New Orleans, LA Orleans and the Jewish community. Phone: 504-782-7218 Contact: Sandy Lassen taking care of each other is what community is all about.

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NORTHSHORE JEWISH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER LAKE LAWN METAIRIE FUNERAL CONGREGATION (REFORM) (Senior Adult Programming) HOME AND CEMETERIES 2260 West 21st Street 5342 St Charles Ave. 5100 Pontchartrain Boulevard Covington, LA Phone: 504-897-0143 New Orleans, LA 70124 Phone: 985-951-7976 Email: [email protected] Phone: 504-486-6331 Contact: NJC Offi ce Website: www.nojcc.org Website: www.dignitymemorial.com/ Director: Rachel Ruth lake-lawn-met-funeral-home SHIR CHADASH/TIKVAT SHALOM CEMETERY (CONSERVATIVE) The Jewish Community Center offers a variety of Lake Lawn Metairie is dedicated to provide a programs and activities that address the social, wide range of options, traditional or nontradi- Jefferson Memorial Gardens cultural and physical needs of community mem- tional funeral services, ground burial, community 11316 River Rd. bers 65 and older. Interesting day excursions, mausoleum spaces, private family tombs, family Rose, LA Morris Bart Sr. Lecture Series and game clubs copings, and cremation and columbarium Phone: 504-782-7218 are some of the specifi c programming available. niches. Our focus is on providing each family Contact: Sandy Lassen Additional fees for participants that are not JCC with personalized attention and a meaning- TOURO SYNAGOGUE AND members. ful memorialization of their loved one. We are TEMPLE SINAI (REFORM) proud members of the Dignity Memorial® net- JNOLA work of funeral, cremation and cemetery service 4737 Canal Street (corner- N. Anthony St.) 3747 West Esplanade Avenue providers, offering quality, compassionate care New Orleans, LA Metairie, LA 70002 and service you can trust. Phone: 504-288-7922 Tana Velen, Newcomers/Next Gen Coordinator 504-895-4853 Phone: 504-780-5628 Contact: Herb Barton Email: [email protected] Website: www.jnola.com CLERGY & RITUAL SERVICES JNOLA serves the Jewish Next Gen community CANTOR SAMUEL KRUSH in New Orleans (ages 21-45) through a variety of THARP-SONTHEIMER-THARP Phone: 504-391-8292 programming including social engagement, pro- FUNERAL HOME Cell: 504-228-5071 fessional networking, enriching and educational 1600 N. Causeway Boulevard Email: [email protected] opportunities, leadership development, and Metairie, LA 70001 tikkun olam (repairing the world/social action). Serving as High Holiday Cantor at Woldenberg Phone: 504-835-2341 Living Centre. Cantor Krush is LOUISIANA MOISHE HOUSE Email: [email protected] LICENSED to offi ciate local and destination Website: www.tharpsontheimerfh.com (Located in the Marigny district of New Orleans) weddings. Will design the ceremony that you Contact: Billy Henry, Funeral Director Email: [email protected] desire! Regional Director: Jaycee Greenblatt For 100 years we have served the needs of the JEWISH CLERGY COUNCIL OF NEW ORLEANS Email: [email protected] Jewish community of New Orleans. We have Website: www.moishehouse.org the experience, knowledge and longevity to Email: [email protected] FB: www.facebook.com/mhnola respectfully work with all local Rabbis and the President: Cantor Joel Colman Cheva Kadisha committee. We are available to Moishe House New Orleans is a welcoming, assist your family through this entire life cycle KITCHEN KASHERING SERVICE inclusive home-based community. The purpose process. Funerals & cremations available. Phone: 504-302-1830 of the group is to provide a meaningful space Contact: Rabbi Mendel Rivkin for young Jewish adults In their 20’s to share, explore and engage in social justice, community JUDAICA MIKVEH (MIKVAH CHAYA MUSHKA AT involvement and Jewish leadership. ART BY ANNA GIL RINGGER WOMEN’S ENRICHMENT CENTER) Phone: 504-233-4818 7033 Freret Street FUNERAL HOMES & Email: [email protected] New Orleans, LA 70118 Website: www.annagil.com Phone: 347-564-6525 BURIAL SERVICES Winner of the Golden Ghetto Award on Email: [email protected] JEWISH BURIAL SOCIETY OF Facebook in February, 2013. Contact: Bluma Rivkin GREATER NEW ORLEANS Anna Gil expresses her creativity through oil (CHEVRA KADISHA) MOHEL paint. She uses lines, patterns, sharp edges and Contact: Sandy Lassen (CHAIR) Phone: 347-351-6476 large fi elds of color in her work. She is able to Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] express her infl uences and inspirations through Contact: Rabbi Mendel Ceitlin Volunteers from several congregations are Hebrew words and the many layers of meaning trained to properly prepare the body for tradi- in each letter. tional Jewish burials. GENERATIONS DASHKA ROTH CONTEMPORARY JEWCCY (JEWISH CRESCENT CITY YOUTH) JEWELRY & JUDAICA c/o Touro Synagogue 332 Chartres Street 4238 Saint Charles Avenue New Orleans, LA 70130 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-523-0805 Phone: 504-912-5515 Website: dashkaroth.com Email: [email protected] Contact: Ivy Cohen JewCCy (Jewish Crescent City Youth) is the Re- form Jewish youth group for New Orleans and Metairie and the local chapter of NFTY, or the National Federation of Temple Youth. Teen-led and open to all members of Reform syna- gogues. JewCCY participants socialize, worship, and volunteer together.

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GATES OF PRAYER JUDAICA SHOP SYNAGOGUES SYNAGOGUES 4000 West Esplanade Avenue Metairie, LA 70002 ORTHODOX REFORM Phone: 504-885-2600 ANSHE SFARD SYNAGOGUE CONGRGATION GATES OF PRAYER Website: www.gatesofprayer.org 2230 Carondelet Street 4000 West Esplanade Avenue New Orleans, LA 70130 Metairie, LA 70002 Congregation Gates of Prayer Sisterhood Gift Phone: 504-522-4714 Phone: 504-885-2600 Shop carrying a full line of Judaica gift items for Interim Rabbi: Yochanan Rivkin Email: offi[email protected] all occasions. Look for our annual CHANUKAH Email: [email protected] Website: www.gatesofprayer.org GIFT SHOW! Executive Director: Sandy Lassen Rabbi: Robert Loewy OOH LA LA CONTEMPORARY GALLERIE Email: [email protected] Assistant Rabbi: Alexis Pinsky [email protected] Cantorial Soloist: Victoria May 524 Saint Peter Website: www.anshesfard.org President: Rick Levine (Upper Pontalba Shops at Jackson Square) Facebook: https:www.facebook.com/pages/ New Orleans, LA 70116 As the only Reform Jewish congregation in Congretation-Anshe-Sfard-of-New Phone: 504-522-7554 Metairie, Gates of Prayer is dedicated to provide Orleans/190270014373125 Hours: Daily (10 am - 6 pm) members with opportunities to find Kedusha Twitter: @AnsheSfard through participation in worship services, life- Come explore our exclusive store on Jackson Congregation President: Dr. Gary Remer cycle events, educational activities and social Square, filled with stunning designer European Anshe Sfard is an orthodox congregation in the action programs that reflect our enduring com- jewelry, gorgeous glasswork and a unique selec- heart of New Orleans that welcomes all who mitment to Torah, Avodah and Gemilut. tion of Judaica. attend. It’s beautiful and historic synagogue, NORTHSHORE JEWISH CONGREGATION NAGHI’S built in 1926, is the last vestige of a time when its surrounding neighborhood was the center of 1403 North Causeway Blvd 633 Royal St. Jewish life in New Orleans. Anshe Sfard, as the Mandeville, LA 70471 New Orleans, LA 70130 closest synagogue to downtown New Orleans, Phone: 985-951-7976 Phone: 504-586-8373 also serves the religious needs of countless tour- Email: [email protected] Naghi’s has an extensive and Unique assort- ists, conventioneers, and volunteer groups. Website: www.northshorejewish.org ment of traditional to contemporary menorahs, President: Bonnie Bernstein mezuzahs, Kiddush cups and Shabbat candle- CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL Email: [email protected] sticks. Internationally recognized artist Anna Gil 4004 W. Esplanade Avenue Rabbi: Deborah Zecher (monthly) has numerous pieces of her artwork for sale. Metairie, LA 70002 The Northshore Jewish Congregation (NJC) is a Additionally, the store offers a large assortment Phone: 504-454-5080 member of the Union of Reform Judaism. NJC is of antique jewelry from their estate collection. Fax: 504-883-8010 located on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain Website: www.bethisraelnola.com about 30 miles from downtown New Orleans in TOURO SISTERHOOD BOOK Rabbi: Gabe Greenberg Mandeville. It is a warm and inviting community AND JUDAICA SHOP Email: [email protected] built on the fundamental and enduring principals 4328 ST. Charles Avenue Administator: Rabbi David Posternock of Reform Judaism. New Orleans, LA 70115 Email: offi[email protected] Phone: 504-895-4843 President: Bradley D. Bain TEMPLE SINAI The Touro Judaica Shop carries a large selection Congregation Beth Israel is a Modern Orthodox 6227 St. Charles Avenue of Ahava products, books, music and many Juda- Synagogue. We are proud of our multi-gener- New Orleans, LA 70118 ica selections for all special occasions. The shop ational heritage and over 100 year presence in Phone: 504-861-3693 is open when religious school is in session and by the Greater New Orleans area. Our mission is Email: [email protected] appointment. Visa and MasterCard accepted. to create an accessible spiritual home, where Website: www.templesinaino.org all Jews, regardless of affiliation or background, Rabbi: Matthew A. Reimer YVONNE YUSPEH STRUG SISTERHOOD JU- are warmly embraced and welcomed into our Rabbi Emeritus: Edward P. Cohn DAICA SHOP IN TEMPLE SINAI greater family. Cantor: Joel Colman 6227 ST. Charles Avenue Executive Director: Ellen Rae Shalett New Orleans, LA 70118 SYNAGOGUES President: Robert Brickman Great selection of gifts for all occasions! Open Congregation Temple Sinai of the City of Sundays during Religious School 9 am – 11:30 CONSERVATIVE New Orleans, established in 1870, supports, am and Wednesdays during mid-week Hebrew SHIR CHADASH CONSERVATIVE promotes and reinforces the ideals of Reform Ju- classes. CONGREGATION daism and Jewish values through its dedication 3737 West Esplanade Avenue to worship, education, social action, outreach, Metairie, LA 70002 and K’al Yisrael. We endeavor to build a sense of Phone: 504-889-1144 community within our Congregation by striving Email: [email protected] to meet the spiritual, intellectual, and cultural Website: www.shirchadash.org needs of each of our members while strength- Rabbi: Deborah Silver ening the bond of loyalty with Jewish people Executive Director: Bruce Yeillen everywhere. President: Lisa Finkelstein As a traditional egalitarian synagogue, we are committed to giving all Jews an equal role in Jewish prayer. Shir Chadash was formed in 1999 by the union of Tikvat Shalom and Chevra Thilim. We are excited about the growth in our synagogue, and in the Jewish community of Greater New Orleans. Our community is com- mitted to learning, to supporting each other, and to being a warm and welcoming place for all who join with us.

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

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MONTHLY LISTING OF NEW ORLEANS CELEBRATIONS DECEMBER APRIL 2016 Celebration in the Oaks Hogs for the Cause (3/30-4/1) SEPTEMBER Run/Walk (12/10) Food Fest (4/1-2) Southern Decadence (8/31-9/5) New Orleans Bowl (12/17) Freret Street Fest (4/2) Louisiana Seafood Festival (9/2/4) Crescent City Countdown at Jack- Crescent City Classic (4/2) We Live to Eat Restaurant Week son Square (12/31-1/1/17) French Quarter Festival (4/6-9) (9/12-18) Zurich Classic (4/14) Fried Chicken Festival (9/25) New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Weekend I (4/28-30) OCTOBER 2017 JANUARY MAY Ponderosa Stomp (returns 2017) Allstate Sugar Bowl (1/2) New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Art for Arts’ Sake (10/1) Twelfth Night Celebration (1/6) Festival Weekend ll (5/5-7) Oktoberfest (10/7-8, 10/14-15, Mardi Gras Season Starts (1/6) Zoo-To-Do (5/5) 10/21-22) Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo (5/20- Beignet Fest (NEW! 10/8) FEBRUARY 22) New Orleans Film Festival (10/12- Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon (2/5) 20) Lundi Gras (2/27) JUNE Crescent City Blues & BBQ Mardi Gras (2/28) New Orleans Wine and Food Festival (10/14-16) Experience (6/8-12) Krewe of Boo Parade (10/22) MARCH Creole Tomato Festival (6/11-12) Oak Street Po-Boy Festival (10/23) Soul Fest (TBA) Cajun Zydeco Festival (6/18-19) Mirliton Festival (TBA) Buku Music and Art Project (TBA) Festigals (6/28-31) Voodoo Music & Arts Experience Fashion Week Nola (TBA) (10/28-30) Congo Square New Rhythms JULY Festival (3/18-19) Essence Festival (6/30-7/3) NOVEMBER Spring Fiesta (3/13 and 3/20) Running of the Bulls (7/7-10) Words and Music Festival (11/9- Tennessee Williams Festival Tales of the Cocktail (7/19-24) 13) (3/22-26) Treme Creole Gumbo Festival AUGUST (11/12-13) Satchmo SummerFest (8/4-7) Thanksgiving Day (11/24) Whitney White Linen Night (8/6) Celebration in the Oaks COOLinary New Orleans (8/1-31) (11/25-1/1/17) Red Dress Run (8/13) Bayou Classic (11/25) Dirty Linen Night (8/13)

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

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Source 29 SPECIAL FEATURE Women of Valor: New Orleans Ladies By ALAN SMASON DR. ELIZABETH COHEN Dr. Elizabeth D. A. Magnus Cohen ith Creole culture ram- was a pioneer in the strongest sense pant in the early days and a New Orleanian by choice. Born of New Orleans and in New York City to shipbuilder theW European model of a prevailing David Cohen and his wife Phoebe, male-dominated society, it is under- Elizabeth enjoyed a proper education standable that women enjoyed little in and married Dr. Aaron Cohen. Of the way of political strength, financial the five children she bore, only one clout or professional opportunities. lived to adulthood. It was the death e right to vote was denied them of her youngest son from measles that until 1920 and only a handful of inspired her to become a physician. concessions were given to women of When her husband departed New property prior to its passage. York to become a surgeon in New Dr. Elizabeth Cohen, the first licensed But despite being born into a time Orleans, she applied to the Female female physician to practice in and place when women were looked Louisiana. (Photo courtesy National Medical College of Pennsylvania Institutes of Health). upon by adoring fathers, husbands, in 1854. She graduated three years brothers and suitors as lacking in the later, fifth in her class of 36. She was of American Medical Association acumen of politics and business, there the 14th woman to earn the title of suggested that women doctors were to were several exceptions who broke medical doctor in the United States blame for a loss in prestige and earning the yoke of inferiority and established and the first licensed female to practice capacity within the profession. Medi- themselves as true women of valor in medicine in Louisiana. cal schools routinely refused to admit the grandest of Jewish traditions. According to interviews conducted women and decades of prejudice We have selected nine New Orleans later in her life, Cohen claimed there ensued. ladies, all born before the advent of was little in the way of bias toward Following her retirement in 1887, women’s suffrage, who represent the women doctors at the time she re- Cohen moved into Touro Infirmary’s nine decades of progress made since ceived her training in Pennsylvania. At- Department of the Aged and Infirm 1920 and who established themselves titudes were different in New Orleans. (later the Julius Weis Home for the as leaders in politics, social action, the An editorial in the New Orleans Bee in Aged) and ran the hospital’s sewing arts or as pioneers in their own profes- 1853 railed against women physicians and linen room. She had no living sional fields. examining male patients. relatives at the time of her death on Nationwide there were women like After rejoining her husband in New May 28, 1921. She was 101. Henrietta Szold and Hannah Solo- Orleans, Cohen found it difficult to Cohen had been interviewed the mon, who established major organiza- gain acceptance as a physician. She year before as the fight for women’s tions for women like Hadassah and the was listed in the City Directory first suffrage neared its endpoint. “I’m glad National Council of Jewish Women. as a midwife and for 12 years later to see girls of today getting an educa- But we in New Orleans can point was listed as a “doctress.” However, tion,” she stated. “In my youth you with pride to these local leaders who by 1876 she began to list her name as had to fight for it. And I believe in suf- also made a significant impact on the “Mrs. Elizabeth Cohen, physician.” frage, too – things will be better when national and international scenes. During Reconstruction, Dr. Cohen women can vote and can protect their Every Shabbat we read from Prov- treated hundreds of patients during the own property and their children.” erbs 31:10-31 of the many attributes outbreaks of yellow fever that killed of eishet chayil (“a woman of valor”). thousands. She also saw to the needs JEANNE FRANKO ese nine ladies most certainly proved of victims suffering from typhoid and e second eldest of Hamman and their worth in their own lifetimes and smallpox. Helene Franko’s children, native New laid the foundations for the achieve- Pushback against women physicians Orleanian ments of the lives of today’s modern continued to mount in the interven- Jeanne Franko was part of one of the women. ing years. An editorial in the Journal Continue to Page 31

30 Crescent City Jewish News WOMEN OF VALOR most talented musical families of the to finish her schooling in Neiully, period. When Union Forces captured France and Frankfort, Germany. She New Orleans in 1862, the Franko worked on what we would today term family, who were noted Confederate a mitzvah project to raise money for sympathizers, was forced to flee to Bre- a fountain at Touro Infirmary, the slau, Germany. Years later, Hamman hospital with strong Jewish ties and on Franko, a successful jeweler in New whose board her father served. Orleans, stated in interviews that he She later married Joseph Friend, had been “robbed” by General Benja- a Milwaukee native and Yale gradu- min “Beast” Butler, who acted as the ate in 1890. After a brief residency in military governor during the occupa- Chicago, the couple returned to New tion. In their book “Lincoln and the Orleans, where he became an associate Jews,” historians Jonathan Sarna and with his father-in-law’s firm. Benjamin Shapnell confirmed Butler’s Friend was active in civic and social blatant anti-Semitism and contempt Native New Orleanian violin virtuosa affairs during the first half of the 20th for Jews he described as privateers. Jeanne Franko. (Photo courtesy St. century in the Crescent City. She While living on the Continent, Louis Post-Dispatch). was the founder and first president Jeanne Franko studied violin with two to concentrate on her career as a violin- of the local chapter of Hadassah in of the foremost instructors of the day, ist and rarely appeared with other fam- 1917. Friend served as president of the Henri Vieutemps and Heinrich De ily members, all who had established New Orleans Consumers League, the Ahna, according to retired Tulane Uni- their own musical careers. Tulane Lyceum Association, the Voter’s versity music professor John Baron. She founded the Jeanne Franko Trio Registration League, New Orleans She made her debut in Paris at 13 and with pianist Celia Schiller and cellist Traveler’s Aid, the Urban League, the returned to the United States in 1869 Hans Kronold and they toured for Dilbert Memorial Hospital and served in a series of concerts in which she was many years. She also played as a mem- as the life president for the Home of joined on stage with her four other ber of the Woman’s String Orchestra of the Incurables (now the New Orleans siblings – Rachel, Naham, Selma and New York and the all-female Women’s Home and Rehabilitation Center), Sam – the latter two of whom, like her, Philharmonic Society of New York. which she also founded. also played the piano. Franko became known as the foremost As a member of the Era Club, As a pianist, Jeanne Franko (some- violin virtuosa of her day and contin- she worked tirelessly to get the 19th times billed as Jeannette) would often ued to perform in concerts as well as in Amendment ratified in Louisiana and accompany her sister Rachel, a soprano private recitals at homes, often raising later was a champion for children, vocalist. During this extended tour, she funds for Jewish causes. She toured helping to raise the state’s child labor and her siblings made a triumphant New Orleans on a fairly regular basis, law minimum age from 14 to 16. A return to New Orleans in February of but failed to appear past 1906. pacifist, she actively campaigned for 1870 with two concerts at Odd Fel- She died in New York City on the U.S. to become a member of the low’s Hall. December 3, 1940. League of Nations and served as a e series of concerts continued over local member of both the Women’s the next 17 years and captured the IDA WEIS FRIEND Committee for Lasting Peace and the hearts of music lovers in major cities Arriving in New Orleans when she League of Peace. like New York and Washington, D.C. was just 6 weeks old, Ida Weis Friend Friend was a patron of the arts John Philip Sousa, who had first seen lived most of her life in the city she and was a founder of the New Or- the Frankos as a mere lad of five, grew loved, but had an influence that spread leans Symphony Orchestra society, a into manhood and became a band well past city boundaries. She was member of the board of directors for and orchestra leader who led several the third child born to cotton broker Le Petit eatre du Vieux Carré and ensembles featuring Franko. Julius Weis and his wife Caroline, who served as president of the Louisiana She married Hugo Kraemer in New helped to found Temple Sinai. As a Council for Motion Pictures. York and began a second career as “an student, she attended a private school Active as a member in Temple Sinai, important teacher of music,” according run by Flora Gayle in the city. In 1882 Friend was dedicated to many Jewish to Baron. en, after 1886, she began the family moved to Europe in order Continue to Page 32

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organizations and causes. In addition to her work with Touro Infirmary and Hadassah, she was the president of the women’s chapter of B’nai B’rith, which was named in her honor. In 1926 Friend assumed the national presidency of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), an organiza- tion she proudly served for an impres- sive six years and was just the seventh person to hold that title. After a half century of service, Friend was named 1946 Woman of the Year by the Quota Club, which noted her lifetime of humanitarian and benevolent work. In awarding her the prestigious Times-Picayune Loving Cup that same year, the nomination committee cited her lifetime of com- munity involvement and advocacy for the betterment of the city’s citizens. One sad note to Friend’s life was the loss of her oldest son Henry, whose nickname was Bunny. Henry died from complications of pneumonia following surgery to remove a ball bearing he had mistakenly swallowed Ida Weis Friend speaks from the stage of the NORD Traveling Theater at the as a young adult of 18. Filled with dedication of outdoor lights at Bunny Friend Park in 1948 as Mayor Chep Mor- remorse, she donated land to the City rison looks on. (Photo courtesy Louisiana Division/City Archives, New Orleans of New Orleans as a playground in Public Library) his memory in the Ninth Ward. e she should be schooled at home under Newman received critical praise. e Bunny Friend Park was the scene of a the guidance of a governess. book was published in several languag- mass shooting of 17 people in Decem- She was married at 23 to Edwin A. es both in America and internationally. ber of 2015. Neugass, who held a seat on the New Based on her initial success, she fol- Predeceased by her husband, Ida York Stock Exchange. e couple lowed with a collection of her poetry, Weis Friend died on September 22, lived in New York, raising their three Shades of Blue, the following year. 1963, recalled as one of the most children under the hand of a governess at led to two books of folk tales in selfless and productive ladies of her and sending at least one, Edwin II, to a German released in 1930 and a play, generation. boarding school when he grew older. Granny’s Garden in 1931. e restless soul of an artist contin- MIRIAM DOROTHY Neugass enrolled at Columbia Uni- ued to emerge as she found delight in “ISADORA” NEWMAN versity after her children were grown painting watercolors signed with the NEUGASS and began to work creatively by writ- ing folk tales inspired by the Creole alias of Isidora Newman. She trained What began as a conventional life and black cultures she was exposed to as a sculptor in France and much of for Miriam Newman became one as a young lady living in New Orleans. her work was exhibited in galleries associated with the arts in her later As she began to explore her life as an in New York, New Orleans and in years. Born the daughter of banker and artist, the nom de plume Isidora New- Europe. philanthropist Isidore Newman and man emerged. A bust she created of her late father, Rebecca (née Kiefer), the young girl Her first book titled Fairy Flowers was frail in health. It was decided that was published in 1926 and Isidora Continue to Page 33

32 Crescent City Jewish News WOMEN OF VALOR the founder of the Maison Blanche department store chain, is on display at Isidore Newman School, the private school initially founded as the Isidore Newman Manual Training School in 1903. She returned to New Orleans occa- sionally, but became known as a story- teller in New York, often entertaining as many as 200 schoolchildren ranging in age from 5 to 10 at the Hotel Astor. Her specialty was telling stories and singing while dressed as an antebellum Negro slave. e artist displayed an amazing dedication to making the world a bet- ter place for children. In 1926 she was recognized by the Serbian government for her relief work with war orphans. Whether inspired by Creole or Afri- can-American cultures, Isidora New- man’s artistic achievements worked hand in hand with Miriam Dorothy Newman Neugass’s philanthropy and charitable work. She died in New York in 1955.

EDITH ROSENWALD STERN Born the daughter of Chicago Isadora Newman, right, beneath a portrait of her father in 1955 at Newman School. Below: The cover and title page from Isadora’s seminal work “Fairy Flow- industrialist and philanthropist Julius ers.” (Photos courtesy Isidore Newman School Archive) Rosenwald and wife Augusta (née Nusbaum), Edith Rosenwald lived a privileged life that few in America enjoyed. A cardinal precept both she and her father employed was to use their vast wealth to improve the local community. us she encouraged others in similar financial positions to contribute by issuing challenge grants to match her own donations. She was always in favor of granting civil rights to the impoverished and disenfran- chised, a byproduct of her father’s legacy in building schools and recre- ational centers for African-Americans. Following her marriage to cot- ton broker Edgar Stern in 1921, she moved to New Orleans and the two economy. She was a juggernaut for Country Day Schools. Edith Stern was began their work as dynamos for civic progressive education and helped fund instrumental in helping build Dillard action and improvement of the local both the Newcomb and Metairie Park Continue to Page 34

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University into one of the region’s most respected traditional black col- leges and did so in partnership with the African-American community. While education was clearly of deep value to her, she was also a promoter of culture and the arts. She was a charter member and the vice-president of the New Orleans Philharmonic Symphony Society, a board member of the Delgado Museum of Art (now the New Orleans Museum of Art) and had been president of the Cultural Attrac- tion Fund of Greater New Orleans. Heiress Edith Rosenwald Stern as a young woman and receiving the 1972 Times- President John F. Kennedy appointed Picayune Loving Cup. (Photos courtesy Longue Vue House and Gardens, Ar- her to serve the National Cultural chives) Center Advisory Committee of the Arts. found time to be a president of the man Cahn, a true clubwoman, who Within the Jewish community, the Garden Study Club. e members of advocated for social welfare and civil Sterns were among the biggest cham- the Orleans club made her an honor- rights both locally and nationally. pions for civil rights causes. ey were ary life member and she was honored Born in Chicago in 1901, she deeply involved in the development of with a number of awards for her hu- moved to New Orleans in 1922, where Pontchartrain Park as a neighborhood manitarian and civic efforts including she was married to Moise S. Cahn, intended to attract African-American the 1971 Hannah G. Solomon Award the director of the brokerage firm of professionals. Edith Stern in particular from the NCJW. Steiner, Rose and Co. fought for social justice by increasing She was the 1964 recipient of the A tireless crusader for the civil rights voter registration, pushed for auditing Times-Picayune Loving Cup, an award movement, Cahn was the president of of voter rolls and generally sought to her husband had won in 1930, mak- the New Orleans Urban League and clean up voting rights in New Orleans. ing them the only husband and wife also served for three years as a member After hearing her cook speak of a gifted team to have been selected to receive of the National Urban League. Cahn singer appearing at her church, Stern this high honor separately for their received an award in 1953 from the had her installed as the guest of honor own endeavors. Louisiana chapter of the National at a lofty society dinner party. It helped Perhaps the greatest legacy of the Association for the Advancement of catapult opera singer Marian Anderson Sterns was the gift of their historical Colored People (NAACP) for “coura- into the public spotlight and made her and artistic legacy of the Longue Vue geous and untiring efforts in the field the toast of New Orleans. House and Gardens, which is now of human relations.” A leading figure of Jewish philan- open to the public and administered She was president of the Louisiana thropy, Edith Stern encouraged all the by a board and professional staff. Conference on Social Welfare, the members of her family to pursue their Predeceased by her husband, she secretary of the Louisiana Advisory own charitable interests. She was a ma- died in New Orleans on September Committee of the U.S. Civil Rights jor supporter of the State of Israel and 11, 1980. Twin large sized replicas Commission, a member of the Louisi- attributed her attitude towards giving of the Times-Picayune Loving Cups ana Civil Liberties Union and a board as directly coming from her Jewish made from granite grace the two front member of Save Our Schools, Inc. heritage. “One is permitted to glean corners of their resting place in Metai- During World War II, she was the one’s field only once,” she recalled. rie Cemetery. Civil Defense volunteer director with “ereafter, others can partake…One over 7,000 block leaders under her has to tithe.” GLADYS DENA FREEMAN direct administration. She was on A member of many civic boards, she CAHN the national executive committee of naturally served as a board member of If the term social activist ever needed the Women’s Division of the United the Julius Rosenwald Fund, but also a poster child, it would most appropri- ately bear the image of Gladys Free- Continue to Page 35 34 Crescent City Jewish News WOMEN OF VALOR

Jewish Appeal and an executive board member of the U.S. Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Cahn served as the local president of the NCJW and followed in the foot- steps of Ida Weis Friend when she, too, was elevated to the national presidency of the NCJW from 1949-55. Chairman of the women’s division of the Community Chest, Cahn was in- terested in obtaining charitable aid to those in distress, but she never forgot her local Jewish community as well. She was a member of the National Executive Committee of the women’s division of the United Jewish Appeal and also toured several displaced per- sons camps in Germany after World War II had ended, but before the Strat-

ton bill passed that permitted them to Former NCJW president and civil rights activist Glady Freeman Cahn. ( Photo emigrate to the U.S. She made contact courtesy Xavier University of Louisiana Archives and Special Collections) with many of these Holocaust victims, whom she described as the backbone reared under an Orthodox household area. of resistance to the Nazis and was and informed of the necessity for a After they returned to live in New crucial in advocating for the partition Jewish homeland at a very early age. Orleans, Rosalie continued her studies of Palestine. Her parents encouraged her to attend in journalism at Tulane University and Cahn died at her summer home in meetings of Zionists and arranged soon graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Mandeville on April 13, 1964 at the for her to learn Hebrew and to study degree. She became a visible member remarkably young age of 63. Torah on a daily basis from the time of the Women’s Zionist Organization she was just a young girl into her teens. of America. During World War II, her ROSALIE PALTER COHEN e Palters arranged for esteemed Rus- mastery of Hebrew got her a wartime An intellectual and original thinker, sian Hebrew poet Ephraim Lisitzky to job as a translator at the U.S. Depart- Rosalie Palter Cohen was a stalwart come to New Orleans in 1918 from ment of Censorship. Her interest in and pivotal leader for New Orleans’ Milwaukee, where he had person- providing support to the State of Israel Jewish community at a time when ally instructed a young Golda Meir. led her to become the first chairperson Zionism and the survival of the State Lisitzky instituted the Communal for Israel Bonds as well as her election of Israel were most severely tested. Hebrew School soon after his arrival. to the presidency of the New Orleans A native of New Orleans, she was Only a few years after finishing her Chapter of Hadassah on three occa- born into a family of Jewish immi- immersive study of Hebrew and Jewish sions. grants Fanny (née Brener) and Leon history, Rosalie met and married Dr. Cohen was the first female president Palter, who hailed from Bialystok, Joseph Cohen, a New York surgeon, of the Jewish Federation of Greater Russia. Palter was a peddler at first, but who shared her zeal for Zionism. On New Orleans from 1959-61, but was after a decade in the city, he opened a their honeymoon in 1929, the couple also instrumental in the foundation of furniture store called Universal Furni- attended the World Zionist Congress the Willow Wood Home for the Jew- ture that eventually became one of the in Zurich, Switzerland along with ish Aged (now Woldenberg Village) city’s largest firms. luminaries like Albert Einstein and and the Jewish Community Senior e influence of her parents meant David Ben-Gurion. ey also visited Citizens Club. Believing education Rosalie, who was born in 1910, was Palestine, the first of many trips to the Continue to Page 36

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was the cornerstone of a proper Jewish Memphis in search of a new job when education, she co-founded the Le- his wife became ill with Hodgkin’s mann-Stern Young Leadership Group Disease. When Bessie was just 4, her (now rebranded as the Katz-Phillips mother died and Harry was unable to Leadership Development Program) provide care for his family. that sought to engage young Jewish While in Memphis, he learned of professionals in education, enhance the Jewish Orphans Home in New their leadership skills and spark interest Orleans, which took Bessie in as a in philanthropic endeavors. rough “half” orphan. Margolin received a missions to Israel and the interaction scholarship through the home and as a with national leaders, Lemann Stern result received a stellar education from members developed into future, re- Isidore Newman School. Bearing the sponsive Jewish community leaders. school motto Discimus Agere Agendo, Cohen’s contributions included (“We learn to do by doing”) in mind, providing for the establishment of Margolin enrolled at Newcomb Col-

Tulane University’s Hillel Foundation Jewish community leader and educa- lege and might have gravitated towards and the integration of a Jewish Studies tion proponent Rosalie Palter Cohen. a conventional scholastic life. But there program, which has since developed (Photo courtesy Jewish Federation of was a drive within her to accomplish into a full-fledged department. Her Greater New Orleans) more. It turned out Margolin accepted many passions for Jewish literature the scholarship to Newcomb, but de- helped establish a fund in her name duced Tulane University was the place BESSIE MARGOLIN at Tulane for the express purpose of she wanted to be if she were to pursue adding volumes of Jewish writing for A perfectionist and a formidable a law degree. She transferred to the studies there. attorney whose spectacular record school and received both her under- As a member of many national and in arguing and winning cases before graduate and law degrees. international boards, Cohen saw to the Supreme Court might have been Margolin was the only woman in it that hundreds of Jewish writers, enough to propel her into history, her class and the first woman to receive musicians and artists received the kind Bessie Margolin also had a hand in the Order of the Coif membership of financial support that would ensure prosecuting Nazi war criminals at when she graduated. She was hired as their continued creativity and con- Nuremberg and was largely responsible a research assistant to prominent Yale nection to Am Yisroel (“the people of for the legal language that established Law School professor Ernst Lorenzen Israel”). One of the most important individual protections both for the Fair and received a Sterling Fellowship of these was the National Foundation Labor Standards Act and the Equal there, another first for a woman. She for Jewish Culture, on which she was a Pay Act. received her doctorate in law at Yale. founding member. e subject of a recent release by Initially considering a career as a “I have had a vision of what a Jewish LSU Press and written over the course professor, she was disheartened to community ought to be, and I felt I of a decade by Marlene Trestman, determine that the opportunities for had a responsibility,” she once pro- “Fair Labor Lawyer: e Remarkable women within the halls of academia claimed. She was the 1979 recipient Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme would be very limited due to ongoing of the Hannah G. Solomon Award Court Advocate Bessie Margolin,” tells discrimination. presented by the NCJW. much more than the struggle of a Drawn to public service, she became Predeceased by her husband and woman vying to find her place in the first woman attorney working following the devastation of Hurricane history in a legal world defined and at the Tennessee Valley Authority in Katrina, Cohen was forced to relocate populated almost entirely by men. the Roosevelt administration. One in Cincinnati. When she died on April Margolin began life as most young- of her major tasks was to fight legal 7, 2010, just one month before her sters do with a loving set of parents challenges to the federal legislation, 100th birthday, the entire Jewish com- who wanted to provide the best for which created the series of dams and munity felt the loss of this graceful and their child. ey immigrated to Amer- levees providing hydroelectric power to determined lover of Jewish philosophy ica to escape oppression in Russia just a vast area there. and culture. before Bessie was born in Brooklyn. Her father Harry moved the family to Continue to Page 37

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Bessie Margolin at work in the Labor Department and about to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court. (U.S. Department of Labor photos, courtesy of Malcolm Trifon.)

e assured attorney soon found her maculately dressed and coifed when- IDA RITTENBERG way to the Department of Labor. Her ever she appeared in public or in court. KOHLMEYER work on the Fair Labor Standards Act ough she spent the majority of her One of the most revered of New in the 1940s as a young woman and life living in the shadow of the Capitol, Orleans expressionist artists, Ida Rit- her work on the Equal Pay Act in the she always considered herself a New tenberg was born in the Crescent City 1960s as a a middle-aged lady are both Orleanian and a Southern lady. Mar- to Polish immigrants Joseph and Re- considered some of the most impor- golin, delighted in entertaining others, becca Rittenberg in 1912. Her rather tant legal work ever conducted on the but was both resolute and charming in expected education resulted in her subject. a courtroom setting. studying English literature at Tulane Following the cessation of hostili- She was a co-founder of the Na- University, where she received her B.A. ties in World War II, Margolin was tional Organization of Women and degree in 1933. loaned from the Department of Labor pushed for the passage of the Equal She married her husband, Hugh to assist the Nuremberg Military Rights Amendment, legislation that Kohlmeyer, the following year and Tribunals in preparations for prosecut- ultimately failed to be ratified on the resigned herself to a happy, if not con- ing captured Nazi war criminals. She state level. It was a rare loss for this ventional life as a mother and wife. On was posted there from 1946 to 1947, determined lady. her honeymoon in Mexico, though, but returned to Washington shortly ough she never married, Trestman she was mesmerized by the work of lo- before the trials of these lesser-known claims there were many suitors who cal artists and other Central and South criminals by military tribunals began beat paths to her door. She occasion- American art that she saw. in earnest. ally would return to teach or give lec- It bred in her a desire to paint. In When she retired in 1972 as assis- tures in Washington, D.C. law schools. 1947 she began to take classes at the tant solicitor, several Supreme Court Her health began to fail in her later John McCrady Art School on Bour- justices including Chief Justice Earl years as Margolin suffered a stroke, bon Street. She became one of his Warren were in attendance. She had which left her largely incapacitated. prize students and she elected to take amassed an amazing 21 wins of the She died in 1996 at the age of 87. additional instruction at Newcomb 24 cases she had argued before the Su- College, where she earned her Masters preme Court, according to the count in Fine Arts degree in 1956. of her biographer Trestman. roughout her career, she was im- Continue to Page 38 Source 37 WOMEN OF VALOR

Her interest in Abstract Expression- ism was solidified with further stud- ies under the eye of Hans Hoffman, considered one of the most important post-war painters in American art. Solo exhibitions followed in New York as well as in New Orleans, where she was appointed as an assistant pro- fessor of Art at the University of New Orleans in 1973. Kohlmeyer’s work was said to be strongly influenced by Mark Rothko, the controversial New York abstract expressionist painter, who was always “Synthesis” by artist Ida Kohlmeyer at a signing (above right). Below: “Circus evolving as an artist. She worked with Series” by Kohlmeyer. (Images courtesy Arthur Roger Gallery) him in New Orleans and he attended that first solo New York opening. It was during this period that she developed a personal style that was largely consisting of various abstract geometric progressions. Her so-called pictographs were marked by vibrant colors that some critics and students claimed to be able to read. Kohlmeyer was also noted for her sculpture pieces, many of which fea- tured the same bright colors and fluid lines found in her paintings and associ- ated with biomorphic designs inspired from nature. e sculpture media at first consisted largely of Plexiglass, cloth and wood. Her media changed to painted steel when she received a commission to erect and paint several large structures opposite the Louisiana Superdome on Poydras. e five 40- to 45-foot tall structures were collectively titled “e Krewe of Poydras.” Today it is consid- ered a downtown landmark. Among her many awards, Kohl- meyer treasured her installation as an honorary life member of the National Visitors to the Aquarium of the Ameri- desired among private collectors. Women’s Caucus for Art in 1982. cas will note the appealing Aquatic Ida Kohlmeyer may have died on Kohlmeyer’s work is on display Colonnade as a Kohlmeyer work. January 29, 1997 at the age of 85, but throughout New Orleans. It graces the Nationally and internationally, she her art will certainly live on for genera- offices of Tulane University president is featured at the Metropolitan Mu- tions to come. Michael Fitts and is featured in an out- seum of Art in New York, the Societe standing stained glass window at the Generale de Banque in Belgium and (Arlene S. Wieder contributed substantial Forgotson Chapel at Touro Synagogue. throughout many of the world’s top research to this story) museums. Ida Kohlmeyer’s art is highly 38 Crescent City Jewish News WOMEN’S RIGHTS The Fight for Gender Equality By Arlene S. Wieder

he flapper decade unveiled a new contemporary woman in America. In this Jazz Age with Tnew fashion and independent style, there was hope among the majority of new voting women that being enfranchised would finally empower women and give Women suffragists parade in New them equal rights with men. Unfortu- York City in 1917 demanding the right nately, even after the passage of the 19th to vote. (Courtesy Wikimedia) New York’s female Jewish voters Amendment, gender inequalities still instructed in the voting process in existed in the United States. ready to give up the so-called Jim Crow 1928. e road to true equality has been a laws that maintained racial inequality slow and gradual ascent for women. e between whites and blacks. for requiring specific rules and laws for genesis of the women’s movement took e state of Louisiana had its first the government and the private sector to place in 1848, when 300 female activists vote for women’s suffrage presented at follow, ensuring equal opportunities in attended a suffrage convention in Seneca its Constitutional Convention in 1898. employment and education for women. Falls, NY. It took another 26 years for the It did not pass. In fact, the state failed to e Education Amendments of 1972, United States Supreme Court to finally pass any legislation related to the voting included the creation of the Title IX hear a case on women’s suffrage. e rights of women, including the 19th provision. After numerous court chal- Missouri civil case Minor v. Happersett Amendment, before it became the law lenges were exhausted, Title IX finally made its way to the docket of the highest of the land. In 1970, on the 50th an- took effect in 1976. is statute required court in 1875. e plaintiff, Virginia niversary of its ratification, the Louisiana equal opportunities offered to both sexes Minor, was denied a state of Missouri Legislature as a purely symbolic gesture, in federally funded educational programs voting registration application by the addressed the issue and voted and passed and activities. Title IX is responsible for registrar, Reese Happersett. e decision the 19th amendment. the growth of women’s sports, particu- by the court was to uphold the Missouri e state did have one notable excep- larly on the high school, collegiate and law, which placed women in a “special tion to the non-voting rights associated professional levels. category” as non-voting citizens. e with women. All tax-paying women were Although opportunities have substan- court concurred that the Constitution allowed to vote on referendums involv- tially increased for women, discrimina- did not explicitly grant women the right ing taxes. It is reputed that in 1899, the tion still continues in the work environ- to vote. eligible voting block of New Orleans ment. Today more women than ever Due to that interpretation by the women was responsible for the passage are visible in positions that were once Supreme Court, the women’s suffrage of a special bond issue for sewage and exclusively male. While steady advan- movement shifted its focus to amend the drainage. tages in the work force have increased United States Constitution. e 19th roughout the years as discrimina- for women such as those afforded for Amendment was officially ratified in tory practices continued to exist for pregnancy leave, there still remain many 1920 with the necessary passage by two- women, the government created specific issues of salary disparities for similar thirds of the states. Surprisingly, Tennes- legislation to increase the opportuni- jobs and work in addition to continuing see, the scene of the Scopes Monkey Trial ties and services that were not extended charges dealing with sexual harassment in that debunked evolution five years later, to women. e first policy change was the workplace. th was the 36 state to ratify the amend- with Lyndon Johnson’s Executive Order Nevertheless, a major political barrier ment on August 20 of that year. It was 11375, more commonly referred to as was crossed this summer at the Demo- somewhat unexpected, because most of the Equal Employment Opportunity cratic National Convention with the the Southern states had banned together, Order. is order amended the affirma- nomination of Hillary Clinton as the refusing to pass such legislation. South- tive action policies of 1965 to include first woman nominee of a major party erners were largely fearful that giving discrimination based on sex. Under for president of the United States. Our women the right to vote might trigger threat of losing federal funding for non- flapper grandmothers might see this as larger civil rights issues. Most of these compliance, the order was responsible genuine progress. states, including Louisiana, were hardly Source 39 WOMEN IN THE RABBINATE CCAR’s ‘Sacred Calling’ details 40 years of women rabbis By ALAN SMASON Priesand learned later that his was not an easy battle to wage. hile the subject of ordaining women as Rabbi Elka Abrahamson interviewed Priesand at a rabbis still resonates very strongly today Women’s Rabbinic Network biennial conference in within the Orthodox community, the Re- 2007. Priesand had agreed to grant the interview on formW movement has, with the ordination of Rabbi Sally the occasion of her recent retirement from the pulpit at Priesand in 1972, accepted women Monmouth Reform Temple, where as rabbis. at is a historical fact. she had served for 25 years as e story of her own struggle for senior rabbi. e transcript of that personal acceptance and the path conversation is quite revealing and of those who followed her at the gives a reader much insight into Hebrew Union College-Jewish the travails Priesand had to endure Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) as a reluctant trailblazer. and, later, at the Jewish eologi- It is through the efforts of other cal Seminary of the Conservative scholars that historic persons like movement as rabbis, is detailed in Regina Jonas, the first woman “ e Sacred Calling: Four Decades ever ordained in history, became of Women in the Rabbinate.” known. Jonas, a victim of Nazi per- As part of its “Challenge and secution during the Holocaust had Change Series” of books, the been ordained in 1935 in Germany Central Conference of American and had donated her papers and Rabbis (CCAR) has produced a only known photographs for safe- massive collection of essays on a va- keeping just before she was sent to riety of subjects of interest to both eresinstadt concentration camp, Jewish women and men. where she performed rabbinic du- With a foreword by Priesand, the 776-page volume ties and delivered lectures to inmates from 1942-44. is edited by Rabbis Rebecca Einstein Shorr and Alysa e struggle of openly gay rabbinic students and the Mendelson Graf and lists Rabbi Renee Edelman as a fight for LGBT equality is also detailed in the work, consulting editor. which is subdivided into seven different sections in- ere is much to be celebrated within these pages. cluding Women Rabbis and Feminism, Congregational Priesand stoically removes the title of pioneer from Culture and Community Life, Image, Jewish Life her mantle, insisting that her dream of becoming a and Ripple Effects: e Impact of Ordaining Jewish rabbi was the path she chose and she just happened Women. Aside from the most respected of Reform to be first. Becoming the first woman of any Ameri- rabbis, articles and remembrances are from noted and can Jewish movement to bear the title of rabbi in an established historians of Jewish life such as Rabbi Gary environment where all the faculty and classmates were Zola may be found represented in this volume as well men was daunting to her and she came to find out that as contemporary bloggers such as Rabbi Jordie Gerson. without the interdiction of several mentors and friends, her journey might never have brought fruit. “ e Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in Priesand credits HUC-JIR president Rabbi Nelson the Rabbinate” – ©2016 CCAR Press (Challenge and Gleuck with encouraging her in her determination to Change Series) – New York, NY – Edited by Rebecca become the first American woman rabbi, but when he Einstein Schorr and Rabbi Alysa Mendelson Graf with died a year short of that goal, it was up to his succes- Rabbi Renee Edelman – 776 p. sor, Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk, to realize that dream.

40 Crescent City Jewish News NEW EATERY

Fresh hummus, Israeli salad, shakshuka and fresh pita bread with tahini and special sauce for hummus dipping, (Photo by Alan Smason)

Tal’s Hummus on Magazine Street. (Photo by Alan Sma- son)

Tal’s Hummus doubles number of Israeli restaurants here

By ALAN SMASON, Exclusive to the CCJN approached the owner of the property who on the hile Shaya has received a 2016 James Beard spot gave him a tour of the Award and a citation from Esquire Magazine facility. as the Best New Restaurant in America, Tal’s “A week later we signed a HummusW has quietly opened giving Magazine Street its contract,” he confi ded. “Ba- second and, arguably, most genuine Israeli restaurant in sically, we found the place New Orleans. because of Shaya.” Tal Sharon, the Israeli owner and chef behind the Sharon, who had previ- restaurant at 4800 Magazine Street, has had considerable ously worked for several experience running several other restaurants in a career months as the bread baker that started in Israel, blossomed in Costa Rica and has and chef at Doris Metro- now brought him to the Crescent City. But his latest Tal’s Hummus owner Tal politan Restaurant, had Sharon has doubled the restaurant venture wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for been idled for a while. He number of Israeli restau- his love of hummus and a happenstance trip to chef Alon had hoped to move from rants on Magazine Street Shaya’s self-named restaurant back in the winter. with his location on the the top chef position there corner of Bordeaux. (Photo As the friendly and starkly bald Israeli with the heavy to a new New York City by Alan Smason) growth of beard and thick accent will attest, he was mind- restaurant Dori’s had been ing his own business when two fellow patrons of Shaya planning. At the last minute, the numbers were crunched came in and started talking about the restaurant business. and they elected to back out of the deal, leaving Sharon He overheard them remark that a new space was avail- Continue reading on page 42 able at the site of the former McLeary’s Barbeque. He Source 41 NEW EATERY

Continued from page 41 looking for new options. Tal’s Hummus, designed and planned over a three-month period is his answer. e restaurant opened on April 19 with little fanfare, but the style of fresh Israeli food items has brought a steady stream of customers into the welcoming and bright institution. e entrepreneur began his restaurant career shortly after leaving his two years of required service in the Israel Defense Force (IDF). He attended classes at the very exclusive Tadmor Culinary Institute and years of studies ventured out into the competitive world of Tel Aviv res- taurant life. He worked and studied over the next decade. Finally, when he was in his early thirties he opened his The interior of Tal’s Hummus with menu. (Photo by Alan first restaurant Pastaria, an Italian kitchen specializing in Smason) fresh, homemade pasta. Boredom set in and the adventurous chef sold his lar. restaurant and with the proceeds headed to visit a friend e pita bread along with 40 percent of the items in the and fellow surfer in Costa Rica. “In the beginning I just kitchen pantry are imported from Israel. at includes the moved just to visit a friend at a very small beach where baklavah he sells for dessert. even the locals don’t know where it is,” he continued. “I Although he keeps kosher himself, Sharon ultimately loved surfing.” rejected making the restaurant conform to kosher status But it would seem he loved Costa Rica and the res- because he would have had to close for a minimum of taurant business too, because the short vacation became 100 days out of the year, he contended. ese include an opportunity to open what would be eventually four Shabbats with a half day on Friday and a full day on Sat- restaurants on the shore there with a number of the 100 urday, plus other observant holidays where he would have expatriate Israelis who live there among his best custom- been closed. ers. “I tried to do it, but in the end after I talked to the “In the end I had four restaurants on that beach. One rabbi, I realized it was a big story,” he related. of them was seafood (Panga Blanca). One of them was Even though the kitchen is open on Shabbat, Sharon pizza and pasta (Pasta Basta). One of them was like this, says most of what he serves would be considered very but with burgers (Tal’s Burgers and Burger Rancho),” he kosher by a number of people. He does not serve any said. e short trip lasted 12 years and he built a mansion seafood or pork of any kind. He doesn’t mix milk and on the edge of the jungle overlooking the ocean. “It was meat dishes. amazing,” Sharon recalled. e restaurant has a 50-seat capacity and Sharon looks But eventually boredom set in again. He knew restaura- to begin using the facility for catering outside events. He teur Dori and came to New Orleans at his urging. Sharon already has a Bat Mitzvah lined up. sold his home and all four restaurants at a tidy profit “One of the biggest challenges I have here is to teach before he arrived in the Crescent City. the local workers how to cook Mediterranean food,” he e restaurant’s bill of fare has all manner of fresh explained. “What was basic for me was something totally Israeli-style food. e centerpiece is the hummus, which new for them.” he makes daily and with which he offers several different Now, after months of work and training, Sharon con- side items to enhance the taste. e creaminess of the tended he has amassed “the perfect team. ey are very, concoction is giving Shaya’s roasted cauliflower and mint very good.” variation a run as best hummus in the city. Tal’s Hummus at 4800 Magazine Street is open 11 a.m. to Most of the items are vegetarian, although he does 10 p.m. seven days a week. stock non-kosher beef and chicken for several of his dishes. Shakshuka, the Israeli meal with eggs and fresh tomatoes, is a big favorite. Falafels are also quite popu-

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