Friday, October 31st 2025   |

Volunteers for Houston flood relief needed

Volunteers are desperately needed for this Sunday to assist the United Orthodox Synagogues of Houston (UOS) with picking up, moving and storing furniture for victims of last month’s floods in the densely Jewish section of the nation’s fourth largest city.

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JCC to hold Cardboard Races this Sunday

One of the most popular family events takes place this Sunday afternoon at the Uptown JCC pool with the 11th annual Cardboard Boat Races from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.

This year’s theme is “Navigate Your Way to the J.”...

NCJW selects Kierr as president, elects new board

By BARBARA KAPLINSKY

Susan Kierr has been elected president of the Greater New Orleans Section of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) for a two-year term. Kierr succeeds June Leopold, who finishes a three-year stint as president.

“The achievements...

Fannie Teles Regenbogen succumbs at 98

FANNIE TELES REGENBOGEN, a housewife and mother, died peacefully at Passages Hospice on Thursday, June 25. She was 98. A native of New Orleans, Regenbogen was known to hundreds of children she taught over the course of more than three...

Bette Sherman Mopsik is buried June 26

BETTE SHERMAN MOPSIK, a retired Jefferson Parish school teacher and reporter, died on Wednesday, June 24, 2015.  She was 78.

A graduate of Louisiana State University, she was an accomplished actress and director of several plays throughout her life. Mopsik...

OP-ED: The Circle Game

By ALAN SMASON, CCJN Editor

The fallout from the racially motivated shootings in Charleston has traveled to New Orleans and reignited a discussion among its citizens about statues and buildings named for heroes of the Confederacy or for former slave...

Jewish groups celebrate Supreme Court’s legalization of gay marriage nationwide

WASHINGTON (JTA) – How often do you get the opportunity to pack “109 years,” #LoveWins and the colors of the rainbow into 140 characters?

That’s how the American Jewish Committee celebrated the Supreme Court ruling Friday extending marriage rights to gays...

Retired T-P exec Joseph Ross is dead; funeral Sunday

JOSEPH I. ROSS, 86, a retired executive and associate publisher of the Times-Picayune newspaper for 40 years, died Wednesday, June 24 at the Villas at Woldenberg Village.

Ross came to New Orleans after graduating from high school in his native...

Two funerals planned for GOP on Sunday; memorial at Beth Israel

Funerals on Sunday for two members of Congregation Gates of Prayer have been announced. The first visitation begins at 9:00 a.m. for Joseph I. Ross, the retired Times-Picayune executive. His service will be conducted at 10:00 a.m. by Rabbi Robert...

Person in the Parsha: BALAK

By RABBI TZVI HERSH WEINREB

DOING IT MY WAY

Most of us have had occasions in our lives when we acted as supervisors over others. It might have been in our role as parents disciplining our children,...