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This is a picture of Angela Rochstein, Rachel Putterman, and Samantha Stiles, three University of North Carolina students who participated in Hillel's alternative spring break trip to Gulfport and Biloxi Mississippi. They were part of a group of students from Hillels across the country that spent their winter and spring breaks learning basic roofing and construction skills and repairing local homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina. This photograph was taken by Dorie Ain, a staff member at the...
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Spring Planting Will be at HOME This Year
Please find attached a creative and spiritual update I wrote on our recovery from the Federal Flooding following Hurricane Katrina. We will finally be living in a new house soon, after over two and a half years of waiting.
Biggest Impression
Lynne Himelstein wrote these reflections after attending a National Women's Philanthropy board meeting in New Orleans in January of 2008.
Reflections
Bobbie Higer reflects on a volunteer mission to New Orleans with a group from UJC's National Young Leadership Cabinet in April of 2006, as well as a more recent trip when UJC's National Women's Philanthropy held their Board meetings in New Orleans in January of 2008.
NAJC December 2007 Newsletter
This article, written by Rabbi Myrna Matsa, was published in the December 2007 National Association of Jewish Chaplains (NAJC) Newsletter. Rabbi Matsa is a rabbi and pastoral-trauma counselor serving in support of clergy in Mississippi, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans through a partnership between the United Jewish Communities and the New York Board of Rabbis.
Caregiving for Caregivers
This article by Rabbi Myrna Matsa was published in Network News Winter 07-08 5768 Volume 13, No. 2, published by United Jewish Communities, disseminated to UJC's Network of Independent Communities. Rabbi Matsa is a rabbi and pastoral-trauma counselor serving in support of clergy in Mississippi, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans through a partnership between the United Jewish Communities and the New York Board of Rabbis.