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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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