{"id":12988,"date":"2014-03-14T16:39:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T22:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=12988"},"modified":"2014-03-14T16:53:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T22:53:28","slug":"federation-campaign-celebration-jazzes-nocca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/federation-campaign-celebration-jazzes-nocca\/","title":{"rendered":"Federation Campaign Celebration jazzes NOCCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the splendor of the Lupin Auditorium at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts (NOCCA), the state&#8217;s official school of the arts, the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans gave itself a post-Mardi Gras celebration designed to express a job well done for campaign co-chairs Brian Katz and Susan Good.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12989\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2324.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12989\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12989 lazyload\" title=\"Jazzin' it up\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2324-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2324-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2324-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12989\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12989 \" title=\"Jazzin' it up\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2324-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2324-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2324-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-12989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Campaign co-chairs Brian Katz and Susan Good frame NOCCA Jazz Department chair and pianist Mike Pellera with bassist Martin Masakowski at right. (Photo by Alan Smason)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Katz&#8217;s father, Morton, who happens to be the Federation president acknowledged that even though he is president, tonight he would simply be known as &#8220;Brian Katz&#8217;s father.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Following a <em>d&#8217;var Torah<\/em> from Touro Synagogue Rabbi Alexis Berk, Katz turned the podium over to his son, who introduced his co-chair. The two of them expressed thanks to the audience, many of whom were former campaign chairs or former presidents of Federation themselves.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the Bissinger family, Nancy Bissinger Timm was called upon to recognize Kathy Shepard as the recipient of this year&#8217;s Roger Bissinger Memorial Award, given annually to the top community volunteer since 2005.\u00a0 Shepard spoke lovingly of Bissinger&#8217;s high ideals and how she felt her long and hard volunteer work was never a chore, but a pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>The evening was capped off by a performance of the Mike Pellera Trio with Khari Lee on saxophones and Martin Maskowski on bass. Pellera recounted between numbers his trip with Lee this past summer to Israel and to visit with the jazz musicians of Rosh HaAyin, all of whom had visited with them in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>Pellera recounted other tales of how impressed he was with Rosh HaAyin and later how he and his wife travelled to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to enjoy the food and culture of Israel. Pellera finished the performance with a thanks to Federation and the sponsoring Partnership2gether committee that had put on the music festival and arranged for the Rosh HaAyin musicians to be guests in New Orleans earlier in the year.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was looking forward to a repeat performance of another New Orleans-Rosh HaAyin music festival this summer too.<\/p>\n<p>For pictures from the Campaign Celebration event click on the thumbnails or wait for the slideshow that follows:<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Federation%20Campaign%20Celebration%20jazzes%20NOCCA\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13000,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12988\/revisions\/13000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}