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Liba Kornfeld, who is related by marriage to the author of this blog, has a tremendously lovely guest post up at the official blog of Mayyim Chayyim, the community mikvah in Boston. Somewhat ironically, the post is entitled “Niddah Anonymous: … Continue reading

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Great article in The Forward about the post-Katrina influx of young Jews to New Orleans.  And I’m not just saying it’s great because of stuff like this: Laura Taishoff never intended to stay in New Orleans beyond her year with … Continue reading

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Fixing New Orleans

Shir Chadash member Josh Lichtman, who is the director of Avodah in New Orleans, and Moshe Kornfeld, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan (who also happens to be my brother-in-law) have a nice article up at PresentTense, one of … Continue reading

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Here’s a great article about covering Katrina and the BP Oil Spill from Mark Schleifstein, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter at the Times Picayune and an active member of Shir Chadash.  Here’s a teaser, but read the whole thing: At … Continue reading

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Hosting

This Shabbat we hosted a great group from Ikar, a terrific schul out in Los Angeles.  Here is a blog they are keeping with some of their reflections.  They were a great group.  It’s always inspiring to have people come … Continue reading

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Blog Love

I just wanted to thank Rabbi Menachem Creditor for re-posting one of my posts on his blog TheTisch.  Rabbi Creditor’s blog is well worth a regular look. I also want to thank Zach Silver, a regular reader, for giving me … Continue reading

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And We’re Back…

Sorry about the radio silence for the last few days…we’ve have some slightly technical issues.  But now we’re back and better than ever.

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Uh Oh

From an article in The Pittsburgh Post Gazette about Jets fans visiting Pittsburgh for the AFC Championship game tonight: “I have to say, usually when there’s this much hype about something, you’re disappointed,” said Rob Lanz, 37, who grew up … Continue reading

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Good News for NOLA Jews

Jordan Aiken, a member of Shir Chadash, e-mailed me to let me know that a new and important organization is getting going here in the New Orleans area.  The group is called LGBTQ Jewish NOLA and they don’t (yet) have … Continue reading

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Tu B’Shevat Seder

Last night was a great night for Shir Chadash.  We held our first-ever stand alone Tu B’shevat seder and we had over 60 people attend.  It was a terrific evening, of singing, eating and celebration.  If you want to see … Continue reading

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Nice piece from a local TV station on the Martin Luther King day march held in downtown New Orleans, and if you watch to the end, you’ll see a member of the family… Update: The video I had embedded here … Continue reading

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Here’s a nice article about the celebration of Martin Luther King Day from the Times Picayune. It’s written by Andrew Adler who is a member of Shir Chadash and it quotes the Chief Conservative Rabbi of the State of Louisiana.

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Miss Massachusetts, Jews and New Orleans

Never thought you’d see that title on this blog, huh?  Me either.  Well, it turns out Miss Massachusetts, one Loren Galler Rabinowitz, has a deep New Orleans connection.  Her grandparents, Eva and Henry Galler, both Holocaust survivors came here after … Continue reading

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New Jews in NOLA

Back when we didn’t have a blog (okay, when I didn’t have a blog) I read this nice piece from Molly Flink, one of this year’s Avodah Corps members in New Orleans and really liked it…and not just because it … Continue reading

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News about Jews

Every year since 2006, Adam Shapiro has been bringing a group of students from Solomon Schechter of West Orange down to New Orleans to see the city, performs good works, and get to know the Shir Chadash community.  It’s nice … Continue reading

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