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
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor With the coronavirus continuing to spread, Louisville’s five synagogues are coming together to celebrate Chanukah as one community of faith. The Louisville Council of Jewish Congregations (LCJC), which represents the synagogues, has announced a joint-virtual … Read More
By Lisa Hornung For Community Louisville’s five Jewish religious schools are taking different approaches to starting school this fall. Some have delayed their starts, some are meeting virtually, and some are conducting classes in person with serious sanitary measures. Louisville … Read More
The last major Jewish event of the year that was still scheduled, despite the coronavirus pandemic, has finally been canceled. Jewish Family & Career Services announced this week that the 15th Annual MOSAIC Awards, which had been slated for Thursday, … Read More
Anshei Sfard Knit & Qvell Thursday, March 5, 1-2 p.m. 3630 Dutchmans Lane, second floor All knitted/crocheted items donated to JCPS Clothes Closet, contact: Toby Horvitz, 502-458-7108. Sunday Night at the Movies Sunday, March 15 The Temple Pizza dinner, 6:30 … Read More