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Touro Synagogue

Speakers at the annual event have included Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Brown University President Ruth Simmons.


Isaac Leucht

Regarding Leucht's Jewish communal work, his great grandson, Bill Rosen, in a nostalgic letter detailing his own departure from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, wrote that during his great-grandfather's years in New Orleans, Leucht "started or helped develop every major Jewish institution of his time - he built Touro Synagogue, laid the corner stone of Touro Infirmary and worked ten years to develop the Newman School," institutions that continue to service New Orleans.


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