✡ We Stand With the People of Israel ✡
JCRC Scene Matt Goldberg I have been involved in Federation for a long time. I started in college, where my exciting Hillel experience was, in part, supported by the local Federation. Over the years, I have used the services of … 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
JCRC Scene Matt Goldberg Things have not always been this bad. Until recently, incidents of anti-Semitism have been at historic lows. Jews generally felt safe in their own communities, in their Jewish institutions, and in their houses of worship. But … Read More
Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger, a West Bank settler, lives less than a mile from his Palestinian neighbors, but they might as well be a world apart. Despite the close proximity, their two communities share virtually nothing. They drive cars with different … Read More
Roots Unlikely Partners for Peace: The Israel/Palestine conflict Through Different Eyes November 10, 2019 Dinner at 6:00 pm | Program at 7:00 pm RSVP required for Dinner Co-sponsored with Temple Shalom, JCRC, Interfaith Paths to Peace and Middletown Christian Church. …
Hanan Schlesinger is an Orthodox rabbi, and a settler living on the West Bank of Israel. Shadi Abu Awwad is a Palestinian student and activist, also from the West Bank. You may not think they would have much in common, … Read More
JCRC Scene Beth Salamon I recently returned from a three-day fact-finding mission to the Arizona-Mexico border with Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA). We were 23 Jewish advocates from 13 states who joined together to bear witness to the immigration … Read More
JCRC Scene Matt Goldberg President’s Trump recently took to Twitter and called for four American congresswomen of color to go back to the countries from which they came. The president’s tweets are not something that can easily be dismissed as … Read More
As you read this issue of Community, you find yourself on a spiritual and historic journey of the Jewish people. We move in time from Pesach (Passover) Zman Heruteinu (Our season of freedom) to Shavuot, recalling receiving the Ten Commandments … Read More
When Bob Sachs was wrapping up his term as chair of the Jewish Community Relations Council, he asked Beth Salamon to take the job. The mother of two said she was interested, but only after her oldest son, Alex, went … Read More
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