Sara’s View Sara Klein Wagner I traveled to Israel for the first time in 1981 as part of BBYO’s Israel Summer Institute. I felt an instant connection and knew it would not be my last visit. Over the years, I … Read More
After three years as The J’s point man on all things sustainable, Michael Fraade has decided to make a big life change: He’s going back to school. Specifically, he’s going back to yeshiva. Fraade, the director of The J’s Jewish … Read More
Mark Horowitz had two reasons for visiting The J’s Early Learning Center on Aug. 20. First, the vice president of the JCC Association of North America (JCCA) and director of the Sheva Center for Innovation in Early Childhood Jewish Education … Read More
June at The J is the best time of year. Happy faces and laughter are front and center. Hundreds of campers and teen counselors (the best role models ever) converge on our campus for Camp J, our summer camping program. … Read More
Amy Ryan and Seth Gladstein took part in the Esther Leah Ritz Institute for Emerging JCC Leaders Institute at this month’s JCC Association of North America biennial in Memphis, Tennessee. Ryan and Gladstein were part of the broader Louisville delegation … Read More
NEW YORK (JTA) — The FBI and Department of Homeland Security will assist local Jewish community centers in bolstering security after 16 JCCs received bomb threats on the same day. Louisville was not one of the cities targeted by the … Read More
Imagine if we could … “see ourselves in a world in ways we have never seen before?” Lisa Eisen, vice president Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. Why did this one specific slide from one presentation at the three day … Read More
To deepen the connection between educational professionals in North America and the land of Israel, JCC of Louisville Early Childhood Assistant Director Angie Hiland attended JCC Association’s Early Childhood Education Leadership Seminar in Israel from March 9-20. The program was … Read More
Seven Times, Seven Ways. That’s the accepted norm for how one can successfully communicate a message. Sounds daunting at first. The concept is to make each time the message is communicated be interesting so that the recipient, after hearing the … Read More
Mike Steklof, assistant camp director of Jewish Community Center of Louisville’s Summer Camp, is receiving 24 books from PJ Library, a program within the Harold Grinspoon Foundation for the summer of 2014 to be used as part of Camp Keff. … Read More