 Topolosky and his family left Beth Israel the following year , citing " the deteriorating Jewish educational landscape in New Orleans " . New Orleans ' only Jewish school , which had been established in 1996 , closed for a year after Hurricane Katrina , and was never able to regain its peak enrollment of over 80 students . Although by then New Orleans ' Jewish population exceeded its pre @-@ Katrina size , demographic changes negatively affected the school 's population . In 2012 the school 's board began recruiting non @-@ Jewish students , and changed the name from New Orleans Jewish Day School to Community Day School , but enrollment continued to fall to 29 students , half non @-@ Jewish , by 2013 . The same demographic changes affected Beth Israel ; its Saturday morning service only attracted around 40 worshipers , its Friday night service only 25 , and it had no daily minyan . 
