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JCRS Staff at Houston’s Yom Limmud February 17, 2013

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Pictures from our November 18 Gathering in Dallas, TX

On Sunday evening, November 18, 25 Dallasites gathered at Gina and Alan Tolmas’s Dallas home for dinner and a chance to learn about JCRS activities from the agency’s staff and officers. Current President Bruce Miller spoke briefly, along with JCRS Executive Director Ned Goldberg and Development Director Mark Rubin. Also, in attendance were two JCRS [...]

Volunteers Participated in 2012′s Wrapathon in Metairie and Dallas

In October, Jewish groups in Dallas and New Orleans held events to wrap Hanukkah gifts for clients in the JCRS Hanukkah Gift and Card program. On October 4, the Younger Set of the Dallas Jewish Federation gathered, wrapped, labeled, and then shipped the 373 gift items they collected. Click here for photos from the Dallas [...]

Pictures from JCRS President Bruce Miller’s Recent Trip to Touch Base with Arkansas’s Jewish Leadership

Scott and Jane Levine and Leah Elenzweig represented the Little Rock Jewish Community at a recent lunch welcoming JCRS President and New Orleans attorney Bruce Miller and his wife, Jane, to Little Rock. The group met at the home of James Pfeifer and Robynn Zinser and discussed the partnership between the Little Rock community and [...]

PJ Library’s 2012 Summer Pool Parties Were a Blast

    In June 2012 and August 2012, the PJ Library hosted community pool parties for young Jewish families in conjunction with the New Orleans Jewish Day School and area congregations. The swim parties, which took place at the Metairie JCC, featured PJ Library story reading (see Rabbi Robert Loewy reading Noah’s Swim-a-thon),water games, face [...]

Jewish (Single) Dad’s Club Meets in New Orleans

The August 2012 meeting of the Dad’s Club of JCRS met on August 14 and was comprised of six single dads who met over lunch, networked, and discussed their unique families. The names of participants and their discussions are all confidential. Since inception in 2008, 20 single Jewish dads have participated at informal lunch meetings [...]

First Photos from Jewish Roots of Jazz

Pictures from Our Fascinating Panel on Jewish Outreach