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By Andrew Adler Community Editor Confronting one of their gravest challenges in generations, Jews from Louisville and across the U.S. are responding the way they always have: by joining together as one people and declaring that evil will not stand. … Read More
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — For more than a week, Herbert Block’s phone has been buzzing nonstop with messages from people he doesn’t know who want to give him money. He doesn’t mind the unsolicited callers, all of whom … Read More
We want to share the below information from our national partners at Jewish Federations of North America. The death toll from the recent earthquake in Morocco is staggering, and a number of teams are already on the ground to help. … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor Nature – capricious, arbitrary, furious and deadly – unleashed itself on the Hawaiian island of Maui earlier this month. Wildfires swept through large portions of Maui’s landscape, consuming the historic town of Lahaina and killing … Read More
Jewish Federations of North America has issued the following statement regarding the wildfires that have ravaged the Hawaiian island of Maui: As you have likely seen on the news, wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui have devastated communities on that … Read More
By Ron Kampeas (JTA) — Jewish groups in the United States and in Hawaii are launching relief efforts following the devastation caused by wildfires that have killed at least 115 people as of Wednesday morning, Aug. 23. More than 1,000 … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor By the thousands, workers nationwide in Jewish communal organizations have been furloughed or laid off outright, victims of the coronavirus pandemic and its economic decimation of institutions. Now, career counselors and social workers from Jewish … Read More
In October it was the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. In April it was the Chabad of Poway near San Diego. Think a third attack won’t happen? The threat facing the Jewish community is real, so we must act … Read More
Ben Vaughan didn’t need to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to know that civil rights remains a volatile issue in America. The 36-year-old electrical engineer from Louisville is knee-deep in the struggle right here in Kentucky. “I’m … Read More
Rabbi Uri Regev delivered a bleak message to Louisville last week: Israeli Jews are facing a threat to their country’s future, and they need help. He wasn’t talking about an external threat from Hamas or Hezbollah. He meant internally, from … Read More