A Jewish Mardi Gras

This Mardi Gras season Moishe House New Orleans was invited to join the Krewe du Mishigas. Yiddish for ‘craziness’ the Krewe du Mishigas is an all Jewish Mardi Gras Krewe, which parades in the Krewe du Veiux Parade. The first large-scale parade of the carnival season, the Krewe du Veiux is known for it’s satirical humor, social commentary, and general lewd nature. This year’s parade theme was ‘Stimulus Package’. While I’d love to share in great detail the bawdy visual experience that is Krewe du Veiux, we made a promise to our Moishe House regional director that we’d keep our Mardi Gras content PG; that said, the theme for the Mishigas float was ‘foreskin and foreclosures’, featuring a mechanical falling deck of cards, and the entire Krewe was dressed as ‘bankers’ and ‘wankers’. We were wankers.