As the Trump administration steps up efforts to find and deport undocumented immigrants, the effects of the crackdown are being felt in Louisville. The Jewish Family & Career Services says many of its clients – all here legally, to JFCS’s … Read More
The 2019 Republic Bank Players Challenge brought together 90 golfers and 51 card players for a day on June 24 at Standard Club. While the tournament had to be cut short because of rain, everyone involved reported having had a … Read More
Jewish Louisville finally has an action plan for moving the worship community – and perhaps the community as a whole – forward. Rosov Consulting, the California-based firm that was retained about a year ago to do a synagogue sustainability study, … Read More
Fred Gross was a young newspaper reporter working at the New Haven (Connecticut) Journal Courier in 1966 when he got a phone call from some local “back activists.” They invited Gross to a meeting at a public housing project in … Read More
A technology entrepreneur, professional violinist and music teacher, healthcare professional and community leader, social entrepreneur and women’s advocate, and a journalist who chronicled the 60’s through the prism of the Holocaust will be recipients of the 2019 Mosaic Awards. These … Read More
Deborah Frockt didn’t have to start cold as the new CEO of the Jewish Family & Career Services, and she is grateful. The Louisville native, who spent the last six years at the Jewish Family Service of Seattle (JFS), spent … Read More
Cybil Flora, a U.S. census employee in Jeffersonville, Indiana, is still working during the partial government shutdown. Her days are filled with tasks related to employee development and training – the prime focus of her work – preparing story boards, … Read More
The Jewish Federation of Louisville has always been a community of philanthropists. Now, it is engaging women in that mission, and it’s working. Here in Louisville, the Women’s Philanthropy Division has been taking a novel approach to getting women to … Read More
Louisville native Deborah Frockt has been named the next chief executive officer of the Jewish Family & Career Services. She succeeds Judy Freundlich Tiell, who will retire on Dec. 31. Frockt will officially start on Feb. 1. “She is a … Read More
Every year at Passover, we recite the biblical words, “My father was a wandering Aramean,” recalling our history as a people that has been forced out of our homeland more times than we can count, seeking refuge and mercy in … Read More