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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
The first Afghan family to be sponsored by a Louisville synagogue arrived Thursday night. Members of Temple Shalom were on hand at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport to greet Jalaludin and Razia Shirzad, and their two-week-old son, Hewad, following their … 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
Racism is on the rise. Anti-Semitism is accelerating. Islamophobia is increasing. Mass shootings are multiplying. The world needs some love … so let’s sing. That’s exactly what Louisville is about to do. A coalition of faith-based and civic partners, led … Read More
I just wanted to express my deepest shock and sorrow over the mass killings at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. The shooter’s last public reference as relates to his motive was to Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society’s (HIAS) involvement in … Read More
Jewish Hospital was founded on a mission to provide free care to all, especially Jewish immigrants arriving to this country with little to no resources. The Torah teaches us that as we were once strangers in a strange land, so … Read More
As we prepare for Passover next month, many of us are reflecting on the words of Leviticus: “The strangers who sojourn with you shall be to you as the natives among you, and you shall love them as yourself, for … Read More
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