re: Do you know any Jewish people?

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There is a very large contingent in the Metairie area.

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Believe Metarie is the second largest eruv is the world, or maybe just the US.

NOLA eruv is pretty big these days as well though.

My great grandfather ran a department store in New Orleans first half of the 20th century. A common thing he and other merchants did was set up new immigrants (largely from Russian/Poland fleeing pogroms) with a years worth of inventory to get started with a store of their own in places like bogalusa, Opelousas, meridian, etc.

It was an act that could be described as many things, but it was in part an early form of crowd sourcing. About once a year a trip to New York would be made to purchase goods for the upcoming year for an entire region and shipped down and distributed amongst the network. This is part of why you will see Jewish surnames in buildings and businesses in just about every town in America.

New Orleans has a museum of Jewish southern history. Louis Armstrong wore a Star of David his entire life. The first Rex was Jewish. Great stories abound.

Low key one of the best jobs in the world - the rabbi in Vail, Colorado. It exists. Beautiful wife. Not sure anyone living better than him.

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Do you know any Jewish people?

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I knew a few Jewish people when I lived in New Orleans, but I don't believe I know any in the Acadiana area.

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Isn’t Lafayette’s thing having a weirdly high Muslim/ME population?

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No

We do have a decently large Lebanese population, pretty sure most of them are Christian though.

There's some bad arse hebrews making the desert eagle.

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The Metairie one is pretty big,

[quote]The Metairie one is pretty big, but there are bigger ones in North America.

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It has been many years since I heard the claim; may never have been true.

Think the Metry one is around 10-12 miles in length

I did business with one who would cry tears if he didn't get 5 dollars off his already discounted deal.

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El Paso, Dayton have a larger population

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Never been there.

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There is a very large contingent in the Metairie area

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I don't know if there are more or less Jewish people living in Metairie, but there were at least three Jewish families on my street.

Sol Gothard was a long time juvenile judge. He had four or five sons who were all high achievers in high school. I would be shocked to hear if they all weren't successful later in life.

Dr Finger was a dentist who's son is now either the Assistant or Chief Medical Officer at Children's Hospital. His daughter is an ACLU lawyer.

Mr Rosenberg lived across the street and worked for NASA, I think. (It was the late 60's) He had a very large and impressive picture of Albert Einstein in his den. I don't know what his son's turned out to be.

There may have been other Jews lurking in the neighborhood. I wasn't seeking them out. But the ones I met as a child all seemed to be of above average intelligence and academically focused.