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By Jessie Gindea The launch of the Jewish Learning Experience, starting in August 2026, is a moment of deep excitement and possibility for the Louisville Jewish community, an opportunity to build on a strong and meaningful legacy while deepening Hebrew … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor Corey Shapiro and Carol Jones are among the most passionate and hardest working members of Louisville’s Jewish community. Five years ago — about the time that Covid was upending life across the globe – they … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor It was a question at once inevitable and unanswerable: How could one people hate another people so virulently, so murderously, to produce what became to be called the Holocaust? “I think the main reason was … Read More
By Michael Ginsberg For Community When the COVID pandemic reached Louisville in early 2020, the leaders of the city’s Hebrew schools responded the same way as most other U.S. educators: They switched to virtual learning and scrambled to find ways … Read More
By Lisa Hornung For Community Louisville’s five Jewish religious schools are taking different approaches to starting school this fall. Some have delayed their starts, some are meeting virtually, and some are conducting classes in person with serious sanitary measures. Louisville … 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
Why should you donate to the Federation Annual Campaign? The answer can be found locally and around the world. It even transcends age groups. Individuals from all backgrounds depend on the Federation and the people who give to it. But … Read More
A delegation of 10 teachers from Louisville’s Partnership2Gether region, the Western Galilee, visited Louisville April 10-12. They visited Louisville’s Jewish religious schools and preschools as well as some secular schools, sharing their ideas and practices and learning from ours. Efrat … Read More
Dear friends, I am much too often surprised when good folks I am soliciting for our all important Annual Campaign ask me who benefits from the monies raised? … what Jewish agencies share our allocations? So here’s a novel new … Read More
LBSY is completing a very busy March and is looking forward to a short, but extraordinarily busy April. In March, many of our middle school students started participating in the Richtol Challenge, a two-month simulation where students choose five of … Read More