Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana

05/06/2022

REGISTER NOW! For our free professional advisory webinar. Robert Keebler will be speaking on mathematics of the estate tax and planned giving. https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FWdxqdxKQtukzUfHAgaHsw
This presentation has been approved for 1.5 hours of continuing education for Certified Financial Planners and LA Attorneys (including specialization credit for estate planning and tax).

04/20/2022

Professional Advisors - Join us on May 10 for a free webinar featuring Robert Keebler, chair of the AICPA Advanced Estate Planning Conference! Registration is now open: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FWdxqdxKQtukzUfHAgaHsw
JEF is proud to partner with Greater New Orleans Foundation, New Orleans Planned Giving Council, and New Orleans Estate Planning Council to bring you this event. Pending 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LA attorneys and CFPs.

10/12/2021

TOMORROW! JEF and the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans are partnering with Americans for Ben-Gurion University to present a free, informational webinar to help you with your year-end tax planning. Register now at https://americansforbgu.org/events/

10/06/2021

We are also pleased to announce that the RoseMary and Saul Brooks Fund for Jewish Youth Engagement is now accepting applications for Summer 2022!
This grant will provide at least $550 for up to ten Jewish children from outside the New Orleans and Baton Rouge metropolitan areas to attend a Jewish nonprofit sleepaway summer camp in 2022.
Find more information and the application on the JEF website:
https://jefno.org/youth-camping/brooks-fund/

10/05/2021

We are pleased to announce that the Goldring Family Foundation will be funding the Goldring Jewish Summer Camp Experience program for its 24th summer!
This grant provides up to $1,500 to help families send Jewish children attend a Jewish nonprofit sleepaway summer camp for the very first time.
Every Jewish, first-time camper in first through ninth grade living in Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and the Florida Panhandle is eligible.
Visit the JEF website for more information -
https://jefno.org/youth-camping/goldring-summer-camp/

04/29/2021

WORK/LIFE IMBALANCE IN THE AGE OF COVID -- Presented by: NCJW Greater New Orleans section, Hadassah New Orleans and JEF

Please join us for the third program of the three-part webinar series on Cross-Generational Issues for Women, funded by a grant from the Linda and Jack Zoller Designated Fund at the Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana. The presentation will be moderated by former state representative and political consultant Julie Stokes, who will facilitate a panel discussion of three female experts in workforce development, employment policy and human resources. Mrs. Stokes is a CPA, CEO of Flame Consulting, LLC, CFO of Stokes and Associates Inc., and the founder of Elevate Louisiana.

The three panelists for this program are:
Libbie Sonnier, ED of Louisiana Policy Institute for children
Ava Dejoie Cates, Sec. of Louisiana Workforce commission
Tracey T. Schiro, Exec. VP, Chief Risk and Human Resources Officer, Ochsner Health System

They will examine COVID related issues such as the first female employment recession, loss of seniority and long-term outcomes for women in the labor market. Other non-COVID related issues of women’s employment such as wage disparities and the Imposter Syndrome will also be discussed.
REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JMku9SCCQ_6_a_YLpbThGA

04/29/2021

Love & Religion: The Hopes, Fears, and Joy of Interfaith Families with Rabbi Shira Stutman
It is a rare American Jewish family that is not touched by interfaith marriage. And it is a rare Jewish community that does not contain non-Jews, even if many remain on the periphery - particularly here in New Orleans. But historically, the Jewish establishment has been reluctant to be authentically welcoming to non-Jews and to the Jews who marry them, and even sometimes to the offspring of these marriages. What is the path forward? Join Rabbi Shira Stutman on Tuesday, May 11 at 7:00 p.m. to hear a little about the hopes, fears, and joy of interfaith households in being welcomed into the Jewish community, exactly as they are.

Rabbi Shira Stutman, Senior Rabbi at Washington, DC’s innovative Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, was named one of “America’s Most Inspiring Rabbis” by The Jewish Forward in 2013. At Sixth & I, she and her colleagues strive to create a spiritually connected, reflective, intellectually challenging and engaging Jewish community for the area’s large millennial population. When not at Sixth & I, Rabbi Stutman teaches and speaks extensively at Jewish Federations throughout North America; teaches on the faculty of the Wexner Heritage program; and is on the board of Jews United for Justice. Rabbi Stutman graduated from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 2007, where she was a Wexner Graduate Fellow.

This program is made possible by the Sherry & Alan Leventhal Center for Interfaith Families, an initiative of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans. All are welcome, but please register using the link below.

Register Here- https://tinyurl.com/leventhalloveandreligion"

04/21/2021

Many thanks to The National WWII Museum for inviting JEF Board members to learn more about the Dimensions in Testimony exhibit and virtually interact with Alan Moskin, who helped liberate a concentration camp in Austria while serving as a US Army Sergeant. JEF is proud to sponsor such a meaningful and innovative exhibit that will preserve the stories of both Holocaust survivors and liberators to educate future generations.

04/12/2021

TONIGHT! Still time to register!

Emotional Well-Being in the Age of COVID-19 is this Monday at 7pm! The second in a series of three programs on Cross-Generational Issues for Women Presented by National Council of Jewish Women, Greater New Orleans Section, Hadassah New Orleans and the Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana.
This three part series is funded by a grant from the Linda and Jack Zoller Designated Fund at Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana.

Dr. Robin Gurwitch will present on issues related to mental health for various ages and the impact of the pandemic. She is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center and the Director of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) and Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE) Training at the Center for Child & Family Health. Robin Gurwitch, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist with close to 30 years of experience in evidence-based treatments and the impact of trauma/disaster/terrorism on children.
You can register here!
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1Wj7OOmVRZWIuzOlUtFmpQ

03/26/2021

Wishing you and yours a Happy Passover!
--from the JEF Board and Staff