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By Rabbi David Ariel-Joel What is the biggest challenge for our community in Louisville, Kentucky? How can we meet this challenge? There is a wonderful debate in the Babylonian Talmud asking: What is the most important principle of Judaism? What principles should … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor “We’re at the witching hour with the Iranians.” So said Peter Anik, a former JCRC staffer, Federation staffer, and Hillel director, speaking from his home near the northern Israeli city of Karmiel. Like everyone else … Read More
By Rabbi David Ariel-Joel The Temple commemorates national LGBTQ+ Pride month with many events, including our special 10th Annual Pride Shabbat on Friday evening, June 13 and Shabbat morning on June 14. Pride Shabbat at The Temple represents the first-ever … 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
Rabbi Emeritus Chester B. Diamond of The Temple, a giant of Reform Judaism, has passed away at 88 By Andrew Adler Community Editor Rabbi Chester B. Diamond, who spent his entire career – an astonishing 60 years – at The … Read More
By Rabbi David Ariel-Joel Jews are a people who know very well what to do when the Jews are in trouble. We have a lot of experience in this. Our tradition teaches us that one of the things we need … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor Let’s say you’re an older teenager or a young adult, and you’re looking for the best place to get news about the ongoing conflict in Israel. Where do you turn to first? Your friends? Social … Read More
On the cusp of retiring after 42 years with Congregation Adath Jeshurun, Rabbi Robert B. Slosberg was honored Sunday (May 28) at the synagogue, along with two retiring colleagues: Melton School co-director Deborah Slosberg (his wife) and 35-year synagogue administrator … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Managing Editor After 34 years at The Temple, Rabbi Joe Rooks Rapport is retiring in a fitting way: He is being its rabbi. In addition to being the guest of honor at the congregation’s May 21 celebration … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor In a historic moment for Louisville’s oldest Jewish congregation, The Temple has hired its first cantor to be its next full-time spiritual leader. Cantor Lauren Furman Adesnik, of Atlanta, Georgia, will succeed Rabbi Joe Rooks … Read More