By Comunity Staff The 2022 Jewish Communinty of Louisville Award winners, which will be presented on July 14 at the Annual Meeting, include lifetime volunteers to the community, emerging young leaders and indispensable Federation and Trager Family JCC staff members. … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Managing Editor Google Stephen Reily and Emily Bingham. You will find that they both describe themselves as community builders. But each of this year’s Blanche B. Ottenheimer Award winners have chosen very different ways to do their … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Managing Editor As LIFE & LEGACY – a national four-year program that encourages after-life gifts to Jewish organizations through incentive grants – surpasses the 500-commitment mark in Louisville, leaders here have learned that it’s not a four-year … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Managing Editor “We used to help refugees because they were Jewish. Now, we help them because we are Jewish. – Mark Hatfield, CEO of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) In other words, Jews know what it’s … Read More
By Community staff This year’s Yom Hashoah program will finally include a film about a steamship bound for freedom, which Jewish Louisville was supposed to have seen two years ago. Nobody Wants Us, a documentary by Laura Seltzer-Duny, will be … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor Like many other Americans, Michael Masters followed the news about the Feb. 14 attempted assassination of Louisville mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg. However, Masters, a career security expert, saw the incident from a far different perspective. … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor Jews in Louisville and elsewhere are stepping up to help the people in the tornado-ravaged region of western Kentucky. The death toll from the tornados, which flattened several communities, causing millions of dollars in damage, … Read More
(This is an updated version of an earlier story) By Community Staff Jews in Louisville and elsewhere are stepping up to help the people in the tornado-ravaged region of western Kentucky. The Tornado Relief Fund set up by the Jewish … Read More
JCRC Scene Beth Salamon On a recent walk I was listening to a Freakonomics Radio podcast entitled “How Much Does Discrimination Hurt the Economy?” The guest on the podcast, an economist from the University of Chicago, had studied the effects … Read More
By Community Staff The Jewish Federation of Louisville’s 2021-22 Annual Campaign will be donor-centric and data-driven as it aims to reach new donors and reconnect with old ones. The campaign will also place great emphasis on sharing with donors the … Read More