D’var Torah Cantor Sharon Hordes It’s not unusual to see rabbis, cantors and synagogue administrators joke about how we are in their favorite month right now … Marcheshvan or “Bitter Cheshvan,” the month devoid of any holidays. What’s bitter about … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor For there is always light, If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it. … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor For Ben Freed, journalism and the rabbinate are two similar jobs. He should know; he’s done both. Freed, 32, spent four years as a general assignment reporter at the Ann Arbor News in Michigan. He … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor Three days after the fire that gutted the old Keneseth Israel synagogue at the corner of Floyd and Jacob, Jerry Abramson visited the site. He walked around the building, surveying the damage to the place … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor “I’m a slow walker, but I never walk backward.” — Abraham Lincoln Three hours before Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States, and Kamala Harris as Vice President, Louisville … Read More
D’var Torah Cantor Sharon Hordes I distinctly remember sitting down to write my annual D’var Torah for Community last March. I had just found out that school would be cancelled for both of my girls, due to something called the … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor First, you turn into the Keneseth Israel driveway from Taylorsville Road, motoring slowly past the synagogue into the parking lot. Then you see it, erected on the far end of the pavement, looking a little … Read More
By Lee Chottiner and Michael Ginsberg Community Staff For this year’s High Holy Day observances, you could say some rabbis have written the book, or at least compiled it. In the case of The Temple, Rabbis Joe Rooks Rapport and … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor Come Kol Nidre, cantors in Louisville will once again stand before their open arks, beseeching God on behalf of their congregations to declare all vows in the coming year null and void if, after honest … 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