Mazel Tov!

The community celebrates the dedication of the Goldie and Morris Mintz Center for Jewish Life, a new 10,000-square-foot facility for campus life that is a space for young people to comfortably explore their shared heritage.

Rabbi Yonah Schiller, executive director of Tulane Hillel, affixes a mezuzah at the door frame. The little box containing a parchment inscribed with a prayer in Hebrew marks the student center as a Jewish home.

Allison Schiller, left, wife of Rabbi Schiller and an architecture student at Tulane, greets Marjorie Cowen, right, wife of Tulane University President Scott Cowen, at the opening of the Goldie and Morris Mintz Center for Jewish Life on March 31.

Guests enjoy kosher desserts prepared by chef Harveen Khera at the dedication event. Construction of the center began in the winter of 2009, and it opened this semester with classes being taught in its meeting rooms.

Saul Mintz, (from left), a 1953 Tulane architecture grad, Bill Goldring, a 1965 business grad, Rabbi Yonah Schiller and Tulane President Scott Cowen celebrate the dedication of the new Mintz Center at 912 Broadway.