AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps, recognized estate planning attorney Carol Neff as its first honoree of a Partner in Justice Jazz Brunch on Sunday at Tulane Hillel’s Goldie and Morris Mintz Center for Jewish Life.
Carole Neff accepts the Partner in Justice Award from the local AVODAH chapter. (Photo courtesy of Stu Weg)
Neff, a partner with the firm of Sessions, Fishman, Nathan & Israel, LLC, was selected to receive the award because of her involvement in the local Jewish community and especially her work with AVODAH, since its inception here in 2007. Marilyn Sniderman, AVODAH’s Executive Director was on hand to congratulate Neff, who has just completed her four-year term as the local chapter’s Advisory Council chair. Following late morning cocktails and brunch by Hillel’s Kitchen with music provided by Picnic, event chair Karen Weissbecker Remer presented Neff with the Partner in Justice Award. The award is a large painting bearing the phrase “Justice, Justice, You Shall Pursue,” which comes from Shoftim (Deuteronomy) 16:20.
The AVODAH Partner in Justice Award (Photo courtesy of Stu Weg)
Following Neff’s acceptance of the award and a short speech, Sophie Rosen, a current AVODAH Corps member from Madison, Wisconsin and Rebecca Waxman, a New Orleans newcomer from New York and one of the first AVODAH Corps members to work in New Orleans, each spoke on the important work they have done with AVODAH. Lynne Wasserman, AVODAH Advisory Council chair-elect and Dani Levine, AVODAH New Orleans Director, shared closing remarks with the crowd.
