Katrina’s Jewish Voices

Sue Halpern describes the Cinderella Initiative, a project of the United Jewish Communities (UJC), which gathered hundreds of prom gowns, graduation dresses, tuxedos, suits, and accessories to donate to high school teens in the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Louisiana.

This photograph of a meeting of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans was taken by Howard Feinberg, Managing Director of UJC Consulting, on a United Jewish Communities (UJC) Emergency Committee study trip to the Gulf Coast, February 13-17, 2006.

This photograph of a meeting of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans was taken by Howard Feinberg, Managing Director of UJC Consulting, on a United Jewish Communities (UJC) Emergency Committee study trip to the Gulf Coast, February 13-17, 2006.

This photograph of a meeting of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans was taken by Howard Feinberg, Managing Director of UJC Consulting, on a United Jewish Communities (UJC) Emergency Committee study trip to the Gulf Coast, February 13-17, 2006.

This photograph of a meeting of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans was taken by Howard Feinberg, Managing Director of UJC Consulting, on a United Jewish Communities (UJC) Emergency Committee study trip to the Gulf Coast, February 13-17, 2006.