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Chabad Sets Down Roots in Baton Rouge

Ten years ago this month, Baton Rouge, La., was a primary destination for rescue workers and supplies dispatched in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina from Lubavitch World Headquarters in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y. As many as 200,000 residents had fled the floods for the relative safety of the state’s capital and second largest city, about 80 miles to the northwest of New Orleans.

Info to Be Menachem Avel Mrs. Yaakova Weber

Mrs. Yaakova Weber is sitting Shiva after the passing of her brother, Daniel Levine, OBM, at 562 New York Ave. [corner Maple St.] until Sunday morning. Visiting hours: 10:00am to 10:00pm. Memories and condolences can be sent to jamilevyweber@yahoo.com. Phone: 718-774-7021. Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch […]

Ten Years After Katrina: Jewish New Orleans Keeps on Growing Younger

A decade after Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf coast of Louisiana—ripping into a huge swath of land and leaving it awash in floodwaters for nearly a week—Jewish life has worked its way back to a new normal.