Katrina’s Jewish Voices

This is a photograph of the sanctuary of Congregation Beth Israel in New Orleans. Courtesy of the Atlanta Jewish Times.

This is a photograph of the sanctuary of Congregation Beth Israel in New Orleans. Courtesy of the Atlanta Jewish Times.

This photograph, taken by Paula Picker, shows the flooded small sanctuary of Beth Israel Synagogue. Furniture is knocked over and broken, and there is visable water damage.

This photograph was taken by Paula Picker inside Beth Israel Congregation. Pews are on either side of the still-flooded main floor. Pulpit and torahs are at far end of the photo.

This photograph, of the Mrs. Hillel Rosenbaum Sanctuary inside a synagogue, 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.