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
By Lee Chottiner Managing Editor “We used to help refugees because they were Jewish. Now, we help them because we are Jewish. – Mark Hatfield, CEO of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) In other words, Jews know what it’s … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor On Rabbi Joshua Corber’s recent visit to Louisville, somebody shared with him the city’s unofficial motto: “Keep Louisville weird.” That’s when Corber, a 39-year-old Canadian rabbi, and the next spiritual leader of Adath Jeshurun, knew … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor Thirty years ago, when Slava Nelson lived in the Soviet Union, which included her native Ukraine, it was unlike any place most Americans have experienced. “It was not a country; it was a big prison,” … Read More
Rabbi Joshua Corber has been hired to be the next senior rabbi of Adath Jeshurun, the congregation announced Tuesday. Corber, who will start his new rabbinate on July 1, will be responsible for all rabbinic duties at AJ, but Rabbi … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor (Editor’s note: This is a revised version of an earlier story; it contains new information throughout.) Earlier this summer, Louisville synagogues were throwing off the shackles imposed by a year-old COVID pandemic, opening their … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor When a gunman entered the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27, 2018, opening fire and killing 11 worshippers, Bari Weiss felt as though something important in America had changed. The Pittsburgh native … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor The Jewish Studies experience at the University of Louisville is about to move forward. UofL officials announced Monday that the long-awaited Jewish Studies Reading Room at the Ekstrom Library is about to become a reality, … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor For there is always light, If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it. … Read More
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor “I’m a slow walker, but I never walk backward.” — Abraham Lincoln Three hours before Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States, and Kamala Harris as Vice President, Louisville … Read More