Rabbi Ben Freed will be the new spiritual leader of Keneseth Israel, the congregation has announced. He plans to begin his rabbinate here on July 1. Freed’s hiring caps a 14-month process during which KI’s search committee “reviewed resumes from … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor Three days after the fire that gutted the old Keneseth Israel synagogue at the corner of Floyd and Jacob, Jerry Abramson visited the site. He walked around the building, surveying the damage to the place … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor Deborah Slosberg had no idea what was up when she Zoomed in January for Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning’s International Directors Conference. What was “up” was the Florence Melton Award. Named for the … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor Jewish leaders have begun an initiative to improve the way Jewish Louisville educates its children and teens. The Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence (JHFE) and the Jewish Federation of Louisville are partnering on the community-wide … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor LEXINGTON – Dec. 12’s violent incident during the Chabad menorah-lighting event serving the University of Kentucky is the worst sustained by that Jewish organization, but hardly the first. In an interview with Community, Rabbi Shlomo … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor Snaking more than six miles through the Upper Highlands and other neighborhoods hugging the Watterson Expressway, a series of 238 PVC pipes attached to utility poles, plus a highway wall, are making it easier for … Read More
By Lisa Hornung For Community An outdoor art installation at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest celebrates Kentucky women and native plants – the work of an Israeli American woman, a daughter of Hungarian Holocaust survivors. Gabriella Boros, the 2020 artist-in-residence … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor As the world watched Tuesday while the United Kingdom became the first western nation to administer a clinically approved vaccine to its people, one man in Jewish Louisville was intimately familiar with the experience. Dr. … Read More
By staff and releases Kentucky officials scrambled Tuesday to respond to the latest use of anti-Semitic symbolism or statements to train police and emergency workers. Jewish leaders were “outraged” by the report, the second of its kind in one month, … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor Albert Goldin loved Yiddish. He loved the language; he loved the culture. He loved the music; he loved the jokes. He loved all things Mama Loshen-related. So, when the longtime Louisville physician passed away this … Read More