Human Resources Lee Chottiner I am an American, a Jew and a stranger The exterminator walked from room to room of my house, spraying the corners and baseboards as he does during every quarterly inspection, strains of David’s Harp lilting … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor When a gunman entered the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27, 2018, opening fire and killing 11 worshippers, Bari Weiss felt as though something important in America had changed. The Pittsburgh native … Read More
Guest Columnist Joanna Mann Don’t get me wrong, I love my “Jewish nose.” But when more and more #nosejob and #nosejobcheck videos started popping up on my TikTok For You Page, it brought back those old unwanted feelings of hating … Read More
Anti-Semitic incidents in Kentucky rose to a historic high in 2020, according to the latest audit by the Anti-Defamation League, according to The Audit of Antisemitic Incidents 2020, which was released Tuesday. The findings are part of a pattern of … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor Anti-Semitic incidents in Kentucky rose to shockingly high levels in 2020, according to the latest audit by the Anti-Defamation League, as cases of harassment, vandalism and assault against Jews stayed stubbornly high nationwide. The Audit … Read More
Guest Columnist Melody Muhlrad (This article that first appeared on Kveller.) The horrifying shootings in Atlanta, in which six women of Asian descent were killed, came at a time of alarming xenophobia and bigotry against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. … Read More
Gov. Andy Beshear has recognized March as Anti-Semitism Awareness and Mitigation Month. In a two-minute video posted Monday to Twitter, Beshear appealed to Kentuckians to “help protect our people,” noting “troubling trends” of anti-Semitic acts in the commonwealth. He singled … 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
(Editor’s note: Please note that the dates of performances have changed since Community’s print deadline. Mother Courage will now be staged from Feb. 13-23.) When German playwright Bertold Brecht wrote his classic work, Mother Courage and Her Children, in 1939, … Read More
Guest Columnist Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks LONDON – The last two festivals to be added to the Jewish calendar prior to modern times – Purim and Chanukah – are both about anti-Semitism. There is one obvious difference between them: Haman, … Read More