Next Year In New Orleans

Bored? Looking for a change of scenery? Or maybe you just need an excuse to stalk the Jolie-Pitts in their adopted hometown?

Well, New Orleans synagogues are “recruiting Jews”:http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-jewish19jul19,0,2988023.story?coll=la-tot-topstories&track=ntottext. Apparently 3,000 of the city’s 10,000 Jews have left and those remaining 7,000 are getting pretty worried. So New Orleans is holding a recruitment drive, hoping to get Jews down south by stressing the concept of tikkun olam. Says the _Los Angeles Times_ article:

They also plan to lure them with cash. Starting next month, any Jew who has relocated to the city since Jan. 1 will be eligible for up to $5,500 for moving and housing expenses, interest-free loans of up to $30,000, half-price tuition at Jewish day schools, and a year of free membership at a synagogue and a Jewish community center.

And if the appeals to your conscience and genetic predisposition for money lust (Where’s “Caro”:http://heebmagazine.com/blog/view/242 when you need him?) don’t convince you, maybe this mouth-watering image of a delicious po boy will put you over the edge.

What do you think?

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