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The honors continue for Shaya, which on May 2 won the James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant in the United States. Last year, Chef Alon Shaya was named Best Chef: South at the James Beard Awards. In accepting the award, Shaya said of his immensely popular Israeli restaurant, which opened in February 2015, “Who would have thought, hummus in New Orleans?” He added, “New Orleans is the best food city in the world right now.”
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Kurtz-Lendner is new Jackson rabbi On April 17, Beth Israel in Jackson named Rabbi Jeffrey Kurtz-Lendner as the congregation’s next rabbi. He will begin on July 1. This concludes a two-year process since the departure of Rabbi Valerie Cohen. Rabbi Ted Riter was the first interim rabbi, and Rabbi Stephen Wylen has been Beth Israel’s interim rabbi this year. Wylen’s final visit for the year will be from June 10 to 25, and there will be a special oneg following the 6:15 p.m. service on June 24 in Wylen’s honor. Kurtz-Lendner spent many years just down Interstate 55, serving as executive director of Hillel at Tulane from 1994 to 2001, assistant director of the New Orleans Jewish Community Center from 2001 to 2004, and rabbi of Northshore Jewish Congregation in Mandeville from 2002 to 2007. In 2007 he became rabbi of Temple Solel in Hollywood, Fla., and spent the past year as director of Jewish learning, education and outreach at the David Posnack JCC in Davie, Fla.
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Rebekah Goldman, Lake Charles’ first “home-grown” rabbi, ordained This month, Rabbi Rebekah Goldman will become the rabbi of Farmington Valley Jewish Congregation — Emek Shalom in Simsbury, Conn. But first, she is heading back home to Lake Charles. Her father, Michael Goldman, said she is the first home-grown rabbi from Southwest Louisiana, “let alone Lake Charles’ small Jewish community.” He credits Temple Sinai in Lake Charles and the Henry S. Jacobs Camp as giving her a Jewish foundation. A graduate of Louisiana State University, Goldman was a founder of the LSU Hillel, then directed camp at the New Orleans Jewish Community Center. Goldman was scheduled to receive her ordination at Hebrew College in Newtown, Mass., on June 5. She is leading the June 10 Shabbat service in Lake Charles and will receive a presentation from the mayor. Her husband, Saul Mag, grew up in the Simsbury congregation, and his Bar Mitzvah was officiated by Goldman’s predecessor, Rabbi Howard Herman, where he has served since 1980.
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