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By Andrew Adler Community Editor There was a time, not terribly long ago, when the idea of a woman becoming an ordained cantor was pretty much a contradiction in terms. It wasn’t until June 6, 1975, that Barbara Jean Ostfeld … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor On Monday, April 17, the Trager Family JCC will join the rest of the world in observing Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day. The hour-long ceremony begins at 6:30 p.m. and will unfold on the … Read More
By Lisa Hornung For Community A hot, beautiful, sunny day greeted about 2,000 guests at the Israeli Street Fair on Sunday, May 15, at the Traeger Family JCC. “We’ve been hearing raves all day long,” said Tricia Kling Siegwald, who … Read More
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