BILOXI, Miss. (JTA) — Standing on an empty lot at the corner of Camellia Street and Southern Avenue, Brad Kessie wistfully inspected one of two sago palms that marked the pathway to Congregation Beth Israel, which had stood here for nearly five decades before Hurricane Katrina struck 10 years… Read more »
10 years on, Katrina echoes for Mississippi Jews
The new Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Gulfport, Miss., June 2015. (Josh Tapper)
