First week of Carnival season is a busy one

The first week of the Carnival season began in earnest on Wednesday night – Twelfth Night –  with the streetcar ride of the Phunny Phorty Phellows that left the Carrollton barn and traveled up to Lee Circle and back as well as with the St. Joan of Arc marching krewe parade that ran into the French Quarter and Faubourg Marigny neighborhoods.

Last year’s B’nai B’rith Mitzvah Makers parade goers. (Photo by Hunter Thomas)

Next week the B’nai Brith Mitzvah Makers Hospital Parade will kick off its 37th annual indoor event for shut-ins and hospital patients at Touro Infirmary, on Sunday, January 17, beginning at 9:30 a.m. The tour will include patients at Touro as well as those as nearby Kindred Hospital and Home Life in the Gardens on Aline Street.

The B’nai B’rith members will be joined by family and well-wishers, including the Clown Unit of the Farhad Grotto. Parade participants will gather at the Prytania Street entrance, 3500 Prytania Street.

Meanwhile, at the same time across town, the Greater New Orleans Chapter of Hadassah will hold its installation brunch and event at the Lake Vista home of former Hadassah Southern Region director Lee Kansas.

Charisse Sands is slated to take over as president, replacing current president Ilana Reisin with a new slate of candidates. All members and associates are invited to attend with a couvert of $36 requested to defray the cost of the brunch and to raise money for the Hadassah Youth Aliyah program.

An interview with the incoming president will be run soon in the CCJN.

For more information about the installation event, call Sands at 504-231-6464.

On January 23,  two Jewish sub-krewes will roll in two parades of the Krewe Du Vieux and Krewe Delusion, respectively. The Krewe du Mishegas, which is included in the older mother krewe of the Krewe du Vieux, and the Krewe du Jieux, which is the oldest Jewish parading sub-krewe, will follow each other along parade routes in the Bywater, Faubourg Marigny, Vieux Carré, and Central Business District.