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By Rabbi Scott Hoffman Far and away the most confounding part of the Jewish calendar occurred this past week and the previous one. We observed Yom Ha-shoah, the day of Holocaust Remembrance, and marked the greatest tragedy in the four-thousand-year history of our people last … Read More
By Rabbi Scott Hoffman Between 2018 and 2025, I moved from Long Island to suburban Philadelphia, then to suburban D.C., then to New Orleans, then back to suburban D.C. before arriving in Louisville in May. I’ve learned to make the … Read More
By Rabbi Scott Hoffman In present-day U.S. politics, I notice a diminished interest in what is known as “soft” power. In contrast to “hard” power, which is a measure of a nation’s military might, “soft” power is a way in … Read More
By Andrew Adler Community Editor When Rabbi Scott Hoffman was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania four decades ago, he majored in the Biological Basis of Behavior — hardly the expected academic prelude to a rabbinical career. Medical school, … Read More