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By Matt Golden Director, Jewish Community Relations Council The intricate stories of the Holocaust are as unique as snowflakes, melting. Each story of loss or survival is extraordinarily rare and precious but fading. Yet, when combined, those individual tragedies lose … Read More
By Cantor Sharon Hordes As the High Holidays approach, one of the things I look forward to the most is observing the various reunions unfolding in the sanctuary during services. Your hugs and smiles fill my heart as I watch … Read More
The Jewish Federation of Louisville, Jewish Family & Career Services, the Jewish Community Relations Council, congregations Adath Jeshurun, Anshei Sfard, Chabad of Kentucky, Keneseth Israel, The Temple Adath Israel Brith Sholom, Temple Shalom, the Louisville Board of Rabbis and Cantors … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Managing Editor As the community continues to emerge from the two-year-old COVID-19 pandemic, Keneseth Israel has revised its weekday minyan policy to tighten conditions under which Zoom worshippers may be counted towards the religiously required quorum of … Read More
Shaky ground for synagogues? I am concerned that the future of Conservative Judaism is on shaky ground in Louisville. It is obvious to anyone who has gone to shul in the last few years that we have aging Conservative congregations. … Read More
D’varTorah Rabbi Ben Freed During the Passover seder, we use one of the rarer names of God: “םוקמה” Ha’makom. This name of God literally means “the place,” and its two best-known uses are in seder and at Shiva minyans when … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor Jalaludin and Razia Shirzad were mere children, growing up in the remote Afghan province of Nuristan when U.S. troops were deployed to the country in 2001. It was a simple life. Most people in the … Read More
D’var Torah Cantor Sharon Hordes It’s not unusual to see rabbis, cantors and synagogue administrators joke about how we are in their favorite month right now … Marcheshvan or “Bitter Cheshvan,” the month devoid of any holidays. What’s bitter about … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor Jewish Louisville is helping to settle and acclimate new arrivals from Afghanistan as the city prepares to accept hundreds of people recently evacuated from the war-ravaged country. Kentucky Refugee Ministries (KRM) is settling as … Read More
Months after a fire tore through the roof of the old Keneseth Israel building on Jacob Street, causing extensive damage, a demolition crew finally razed what remained of the historic synagogue on Friday, Oct. 8. “It was determined that there … Read More
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