Arnie Fielkow was CEO and president of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans for five years, stepping down earlier this year. Under his tenure, the Goldring Family Foundation for Jewish-Multicultural Affairs and the Sherry and Alan Leventhal Center for Interfaith Families were established to bolster inter-religious and cultural outreach as well as to connect to families with Jewish and other faith observance. Before serving at the federation, Arnie twas an executive with the New Orleans Saints organization and was elected to several terms as a New Orleans City Councilman-at-large.