Weekend features Temple Sinai, Yom Hashoah events
The Passover holiday will be barely a memory when Temple Sinai removes the wrapping off its 145th anniversary gala this Saturday night, April 11.
Temple Sinai turns 145 this weekend. (Photo by Alan Smason)
Rabbi Ed Paul Cohn will lead his congregation in a benefit, starting with a 6:00 p.m. patrons’ party that is designed both to fundraise and congratulate the largest Jewish house of worship in Louisiana on its milestone event.
Temple Sinai is the oldest area Reform temple that was founded originally as a Reform congregation. Dinner for attendees begins at 7:00 p.m. in the social hall.
Music will be provided by The Gold Standard with additional entertainment by the Pussyfooters dance troupe.
Then, 24 hours later, Cohn, one of the founding members of the annual Community Wide Yom Hashoah event, will help usher in a meaningful remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust at the Uptown Jewish Community Center, beginning at 7:00 p.m. The event chaired by JCC Jewish Enrichment director Liba Kornfeld will begin with the traditional entry of the survivors, their offspring and grandchildren.
The Community Wide Yom Hashoah event is free and open to the public.
Alexandra Zapruder
The keynote speaker for the Yom Hashoah event will be Alexandra Zapruder, the author of “Salvaged Pages: Young Writers Diaries of the Holocaust.” The event is also an opportunity for the Yom Hashoah Committee to present Caitlin Meehan-Draper, with its 10th Annual Educator of the Year Award. Meehan-Draper, a teacher at Samuel L. Green Elementary School, is expected to be joined with many of her pupils, their parents and other faculty members.
This award recognizes local teachers who effectively integrate the teaching of the Holocaust into their curriculum.
South Central Region director of the Anti-Defamation League, Allison Goodman-Padilla, is expected to announce the ten youth members of the Donald R. Mintz Youth Leadership Mission to Washington D.C. These students have traveled to Washington, D.C. to learn about the Holocaust first-hand and to tour the National Holocaust Museum.
