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By Lee Chottiner Community Editor When Chris Easterly left for Los Angeles to start his screenplay-writing career, the last thing on his mind was the Holocaust. After all, the Frankfort native grew up in a town where few Jews live. … Read More
Guest Columnist David Y. Chack As an Ashkenazi Jew, cis-male and white, I have privilege in American society. So seeing the protests expressing outrage and the need for change after the horrific deaths of Black people, including George Floyd and … Read More
JCRC Scene Matt Goldberg “What are we doing? What can we do?” These are the questions I have been asked persistently over the last three weeks. What happened to Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and many others has rightly awakened our … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor Above all else Rabbi Michael Wolk did in Louisville, he will always remember this town as the place where he met his wife. The year was 2012. Wolk, a Long Island native recently ordained by … Read More
By Community Staff Jewish Louisville has joined the calls for reforms following the killings of Breonna Taylor, David McAtee, George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, and it is joining efforts to address the structural inequalities that have existed for a centuries … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor Melanie Maron Pell moved home to her native Louisville in 2013, giving her employer, the American Jewish Committee (AJC), an informal presence in her hometown. The managing director of regional offices, Pell oversaw the network … Read More
Guest Columnist Melanie House-Mansfield As Jews, we marked the 75th year anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps this year. A somber milestone depicted in film and pictorial accounts, the Holocaust showed what institutional hate can become when it … Read More
By staff reports Something was missing at the Jewish Community Center following its partial reopening this month – kids. The Health and Wellness Center was again open to adults jonesing for their weight training, aerobics and other classes, but there … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor Seek the well-being of the city in which you live … for in its peace you shall find peace.” — Jeremiah 29:7 Farrah Alexander stood in the crowd outside the Jefferson County Courthouse on Friday, … Read More
The Jewish Federation of Louisville has joined the calls for reforms to policing and the unequal treatment of people of color following the killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. Taylor, 26, a Louisville EMT, was shot to death on … Read More
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