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By Andrew Adler Community Editor For more than three decades at Congregation Adath Jeshurun – working with three rabbis, preparing dozens of Bar and Bat mitzvah students, leading services for High Holidays, untold Shabbat mornings, plus many regular holidays and … Read More
By Rabbi Laura Metzger Maybe the sun is shining while you are reading this. Maybe not. It’s raining today as I write. All the past week, the sun has remained muted behind a scrim of gray. The days have been … Read More
D’var Torah Rabbi Laura Metzger Mah nishtanah ha-hodesh ha-zeh – how is this month different? Though the words are almost the words we say during the Passover seder, they speak of this month, the month of Elul and how very … Read More
D’var Torah Rabbi Laura Metzger Does it seem there have been a lot of funerals recently? Maybe it’s my age. As we get older, we’re increasingly aware of death’s reality. Or maybe it’s the season; there are more funerals in … Read More
As parshat Yitro opens, Moses, an inexperienced and inarticulate leader of the Hebrew people, has, at last, negotiated their release from bondage to Pharaoh and led them into the wilderness. The wilderness is not a good place to be directionless, … Read More
As the vigil for 11 worshippers killed in a Pittsburgh synagogue and two shoppers gunned down at the Jeffersontown Kroger got under way, Shalom Malka’s mind went to happier thoughts. He had attended Tree of Life, scene of Saturday’s carnage, … Read More
Jewish Louisvillians were among the thousands of people to pack the plaza of the Muhammad Ali Center Monday night to protest President Donald Trump’s executive order barring citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. The Rally … Read More
Yes, February is way early to begin getting ready for Passover. Or is it? True, the first Seder is months away on April 22. Stores in Louisville won’t even start putting out Passover groceries ’til March. We can put off … Read More
When an individual is honored with one of Jewish Family & Career Service’s MOSAIC Awards, it is a clear signal that that individual is a refugee or immigrant who has come to Louisville and achieved great things. It is also … Read More
Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it … Read More