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
Judy Freundlich Tiell will end her service to Jewish Family & Career Services in December when the long-time executive director of the agency retires. “I joined the staff in 1979 and had been a part of the management team for … Read More
For the first time in more than a decade, The Republic Bank Players Challenge at the Standard Club was almost rained out. Ironically, the special gift for each player at this year’s event, which took place on June 25, was … Read More