BATON ROUGE — A fire-damaged house on Old Hammond Highway is being transformed into a permanent cultural center for Baton Rouge’s Jewish community.
The house sat gutted and vacant for years after a fire, with tarnished paint and boarded-up windows. It will now serve as the new home for Chabad at LSU’s Jewish Cultural Center.
Rabbi Peretz Kazen, director of Chabad at LSU, said the center has been serving the community for more than a decade but always operated out of temporary spaces…