Philanthropic Community Selects New Orleans

Tim Walter is CEO and executive director of the Association of Small Foundations, a group of over 3,100 foundations with few or no staff, representative of the vast majority of foundations…

Thoughts on the Fourth Anniversary of Katrina by Rabbi Edward Paul Cohn

New Orleanians and our proud neighbors, we salute you! Your human grandeur and your decency, your character and your faithful perseverance have far surpassed the example of those upon whom we all counted to be our leaders. All in all, few of us have been other than stalwart and people of integrity.

In the wake of Katrina, the ongoing religious question has not been “Why” but “What shall we do?” And in churches, synagogues and mosques, along with fervent prayers for the victims, the injured and the bereaved, the response has been one of heroic labor, and generous relief and determined future.

Many of the faithful still wonder, “Why, dear God?” But really, isn’t the only worthy response to that question the summons to embrace our duty: