<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience]]></title><description><![CDATA[Explore the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in New Orleans through exhibitions, programs, education, and Southern Jewish history.]]></description><link>https://www.msje.net/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 19:00:32 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.msje.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Times-Picayune: "New exhibit looks at Holocaust survivors who formed a social club in New Orleans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[New Orleans, May 3, 2026- Dave Walker pays a visit to MSJE's special exhibition on the New Americans Social Club of New Orleans A photograph from 1952, displayed in a section of the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience’s permanent galleries, shows a group of people posing on the front steps of the New Orleans Jewish Community Center. They are members of the New Americans Social Club — European Holocaust survivors who’d made their way to new lives in the American South. “I remember when I...]]></description><link>https://www.msje.org/post/the-times-picayune-new-exhibit-looks-at-holocaust-survivors-who-formed-a-social-club-in-new-orlean</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f8affc356085c6404f60e3</guid><category><![CDATA[MSJE in the News]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 15:12:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7b9dc7_9d1d0561239b4bec811377018510cfa8~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>eleanor017</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[MSJE to Open Special Exhibition About Holocaust Survivors in the South: The New Americans Social Club offers lessons about patriotism, community]]></title><description><![CDATA[New Orleans, March 16, 2026  – The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience (MSJE) will open its newest special exhibition to the public on Friday, March 20. “Holocaust Survivors in a New Land: The New Americans Social Club of New Orleans”  tells the story of Holocaust survivors who made new lives in the South, becoming citizens, opening businesses, organizing Yiddish-language entertainment and Holocaust memorial programs, and even confronting neo-Nazis. Executive Director Kenneth Hoffman...]]></description><link>https://www.msje.org/post/msje-to-open-special-exhibition-about-holocaust-survivors-in-the-south-the-new-americans-social-clu</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c442efe15007f12d6c145c</guid><category><![CDATA[Press Release]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:24:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7b9dc7_5e59e21c7d2e4569b6fffab4bbdd7664~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_885,h_593,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>eleanor017</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[2026 Middle School Writing Contest: New Americans and You]]></title><description><![CDATA[Enter the 2026 MSJE Middle School Writing Contest. Students in grades 5-8 are invited to write about welcoming new Americans and sharing cultural traditions.]]></description><link>https://www.msje.org/post/2026-middle-school-writing-contest</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b02086be29996eed55f759</guid><category><![CDATA[Contest]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:04:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_499553dce49441b090e35782a4f3e111~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator></dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[MSJE Hosts Culture-Melding King Cake Challah Events]]></title><description><![CDATA[New Orleans, January 30, 2025  – For the fourth year, the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience has partnered with New Orleans-area baker SerenaBakesBread to host a series of workshops that fuse Jewish food heritage with New Orleans traditions. On January 25th, the museum hosted a King Cake Challah workshop for children. On the 29th, adults were invited for an evening King Cake Challah Happy Hour. Guests smile with King Cake Challahs In both cases, attendees decorated challah—a traditional...]]></description><link>https://www.msje.org/post/msje-hosts-culture-melding-king-cake-challah-events</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b2ec20881f20099b2d92cc</guid><category><![CDATA[Press Release]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7b9dc7_e94a797bf73e413b949c3413a968e1d8~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_779,h_587,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>eleanor017</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[MSJE Partners with St. Charles Parish Library for New Holocaust Exhibition]]></title><description><![CDATA[Destrehan, December 6, 2025  – Michael Jacobs, Curator at the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience (MSJE), delivered the keynote address at the St. Charles Parish Library’s opening of Americans and the Holocaust , a traveling exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association. At the invitation of the library, Jacobs has guest-curated a parallel exhibition, New Americans in a New Land, spotlighting the unique journey that brought one couple through the...]]></description><link>https://www.msje.org/post/msje-partners-with-st-charles-parish-library-for-new-holocaust-exhibition</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b2e978100d2ff063a5c9fc</guid><category><![CDATA[Press Release]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7b9dc7_28f5f153b2ca4879a17b1a1624d9885a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_492,h_643,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>eleanor017</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atlanta Jewish Times: "New Orleans Museum Builds Rooftop Sukkah"]]></title><description><![CDATA[AJT covers MSJE's annual rooftop Sukkah tradition In honor of Sukkot, the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience (MSJE) partnered with unCommon Construction to build a traditional sukkah on the museum’s rooftop. The museum’s sukkah served as both a free communal gathering space and as a venue for a weeklong slate of structured programming. https://www.atlantajewishtimes.com/new-orleans-museum-builds-rooftop-sukkah/During this annual harvest festival, Jewish households and communities...]]></description><link>https://www.msje.org/post/atlanta-jewish-times-new-orleans-museum-builds-rooftop-sukkah</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a01fcf7e0af128698efabcf</guid><category><![CDATA[MSJE in the News]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:04:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7b9dc7_4563ca2452e946dcb1e0923019570ec9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_915,h_875,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>eleanor017</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Museum Builds Rooftop Sukkah in Partnership with unCommon Construction]]></title><description><![CDATA[New Orleans, September 30, 2025  – In honor of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot (October 6-13) the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience (MSJE) has partnered with unCommon Construction to build a traditional Sukkah on the museum’s rooftop. The museum’s Sukkah will serve as both a free communal gathering space and as a venue for a weeklong slate of structured programming. During this annual harvest festival, Jewish households and communities traditionally construct a Sukkah: a hut-like outdoor...]]></description><link>https://www.msje.org/post/museum-builds-rooftop-sukkah-in-partnership-with-uncommon-construction</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69419f09e8d0a69a0c30886f</guid><category><![CDATA[Press Release]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:04:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/05766b_7e22216ff228472b8d1f8d08889c0889~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator></dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Exhibition Explores the History of the Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans]]></title><description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS, March 10, 2025  –  A new Special Exhibition, Most Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans , will open at the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience (MSJE), in New Orleans, on April 10, 2025, and run through the end of the year. Based on author and historian Marlene Trestman’s critically acclaimed book of the same name, the exhibition explores this unique institution and the legacy it left for thousands of Jews across the South.  The Jewish Orphans’ Home...]]></description><link>https://www.msje.org/post/most-fortunate-unfortunates-the-jewish-orphans-home-of-new-orleans-special-exhibition</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69419f564d149c1676cf54b0</guid><category><![CDATA[Press Release]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:05:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/05766b_8987932b6d9d4f08ab26dbbe03c1e205~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_673,h_418,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator></dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[MSJE Acquires its Oldest Artifact – Seventeenth Century Kiddush Cup Pre-Dates City of New Orleans by 41 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS, March 6, 2024 – The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience is now displaying the oldest artifact in its collection: a silver kiddush cup made in the year 1677. The cup was recently donated to the museum by members of the Fraenkel family, in honor of Albert Fraenkel II (1928-2023) and his brother Francis “Shorty” Fraenkel. Albert had been the eighth-generation keeper of the family heirloom.  Kiddush cups are used by Jews when saying a prayer for “the fruit of the vine,” or wine....]]></description><link>https://www.msje.org/post/msje-acquires-its-oldest-artifact-seventeenth-century-kiddush-cup-pre-dates-city-of-new-orleans-by</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69419fb048fd5daafe2270c5</guid><category><![CDATA[Press Release]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:06:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/05766b_78fe72a0850145e6ba5d00e1d892999a~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator></dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Museum Receives Transformational $1.25 Million Gift]]></title><description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS, January 9, 2025 – The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience (MSJE),  in New Orleans, is excited to announce that it has received a $1.25 million gift from Dave and  Amy Chapman Fulton to name its new research center, which opened in November 2024. The  Chapman Family Research Center (the Center) will honor Amy Chapman’s Southern Jewish  ancestors, and give scholars, historians, and people seeking to research their Southern Jewish  roots a new home for exploration and...]]></description><link>https://www.msje.org/post/museum-receives-transformational-1-25-million-gift</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69419f8a48fd5daafe227071</guid><category><![CDATA[Press Release]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 18:06:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/05766b_b121c4a9e6534b8b84e3ebe7a03600e4~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator></dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Museum to Open Southern Jewish Family Research Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS, October 14, 2024 –  The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience (MSJE), in New Orleans, will cut the ribbon on its new Southern Jewish Family Research Center (the Center) on Thursday, November 7, 2024. The new center is the first major expansion of the museum since it opened in spring 2021. The logo for the new Chapman Center The new Center, located on the museum’s third floor, will include an area devoted to artifact conservation and digitization, a secure vault to hold the...]]></description><link>https://www.msje.org/post/museum-to-open-southern-jewish-family-research-center</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b2e7eaf0e950e3b388aa98</guid><category><![CDATA[Press Release]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/05766b_eab1c5c88daf4488937d2f60eed28057~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_750,h_750,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>eleanor017</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Exhibit Shines Light on South’s Rosenwald Schools and Progressive Era-Partnership of Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington]]></title><description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS, October 26, 2023 –  A new Special Exhibition, A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America,  will open at the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience  (MSJE), in New Orleans, on November 17, 2023, and run through April 21, 2024. Pleasant Plains School in Hertford County, North Carolina Through photographs taken and stories collected by photographer Andrew Feiler, a fifth-generation Jewish Georgian, the...]]></description><link>https://www.msje.org/post/new-exhibit-shines-light-on-south-s-rosenwald-schools-and-progressive-era-partnership-of-julius-rose</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b2e12d60bf8f6bb4efdbe4</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7b9dc7_a32f96e0728042b48d3e53da4ac13fde~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>eleanor017</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New York Times: "A New Showcase for the Story of Jews in the South"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Claudia Dreifus covers MSJE's opening for the paper of record With thousands of artifacts, a New Orleans museum tells of a different immigrant experience, far from the cities of the North. Continue reading in the New York Times.]]></description><link>https://www.msje.org/post/the-new-york-times-a-new-showcase-for-the-story-of-jews-in-the-south</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0203cb0e085586d4794192</guid><category><![CDATA[MSJE in the News]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2021 16:38:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/7b9dc7_a9436bb55f6c488993dece24ce2b11c8~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_863,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>eleanor017</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>