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February 2021

Suspect named in shooting attempt of Jewish Louisville mayoral candidate

By Lee Chottiner Commuity Editor Police have arrested Quintez Brown for the attempted assassination of Louisville mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg. Brown, 21, a newspaper columnist and community activist, has been charged with attempted murder and four counts of wanton endangerment … Read More >

Latest News February 14, 2022

Grandson to remember Ann, Sandor Klein at annual Yom HaShoah program

By Lee Chottiner Community Editor Ann and Sandor Klein lived lives that resonate to this day. Childhood sweethearts from the same village in Hungary, Sandor left for America in 1938, serving as an Army Air Corps sergeant during World War … Read More >

JCC Latest News March 12, 2021

Picture This: Archive Shots

This is the second in a series of photo galleries made possible by the Louisville Jewish Archives Committee. The panel is seeking help from Community readers to identify photos from its collection, which depicts 100 years of Jewish life in … Read More >

JCC Latest News March 9, 2021

American Jewish poetry teaches us plenty if only we explore it

Guest Columnist Michael Jackman Have you read any Jewish poetry lately? Would you? Those aren’t really fair questions. If you have been to synagogue, if you have read the Hebrew Bible, if you have recited any of the liturgy, you … Read More >

Latest News March 3, 2021

The Holocaust will always be a part of my heritage; here’s why

Guest Columnist Rabbi Hillel Smulowitz Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, I knew that my parents’ families perished in concentration camps, but I never understood why they did not talk about it. As I got older, through my own experiences … Read More >

Latest News February 26, 2021

Twerski’s toughest fight is also ours

Human Resources Lee Chottiner As a kid growing up in Pittsburgh, what I knew of Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski came exclusively from the 6 o’clock news. I knew he was a doctor, a rabbi and, of course, a Jew. I … Read More >

Latest News February 26, 2021

Ari Lesser talks truths with his raps at Sunday Night Live

By Lee Chottiner Community Editor Ari Lesser has no problem telling you what kind of Jew he is: “You know I’m a party Jew Ashkenazi-but-I-still-love-a-Sephardi Jew a fast-rapping Jew the toe-tapping Jew I’m-a-gonna-get-the-whole crowd-to-start-clapping Jew a free-thinking Jew l’chaim-drinking Jew … Read More >

Latest News February 26, 2021

D’var Torah: A 2021 Passover lesson — we’ll get through this

In the Passover story, the Jews were faced with the sea on one side and the Egyptian army on the other. “Let’s fight,” some cried. “Let’s surrender,” others said. “Let’s pray,” still others advised. But Moses said, “Now is not … Read More >

Latest News February 26, 2021

JCC, AJ, present Golden Globe nominee for film fest interview

By Lee Chottiner Community Editor For Israeli actress Shira Haas, playing a teenage girl with a degenerative motor disease, as she did in the movie Asia, had a familiar ring to it. Haas, 25, was diagnosed with kidney cancer just … Read More >

Latest News February 26, 2021

The fighting rabbi: Foreman’s road to title goes through Louisville

By Lee Chottiner Community Editor In 2005, Yuri Foreman, a young Belarusian Jew from Israel and a struggling boxer, was living in New York – broke. He worked in the Garment District of Manhattan by day and trained at a … Read More >

Latest News February 15, 2021

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