Grade 4 Shabbat and Family Dinner – Anniversary Blessings
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Word of the Month: Why should every Jew Celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month?
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
Students will lead when JCRC presents this year’s Yom HaShoah remembrance April 23 at The Temple
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
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
A song steeped in bitterness: Emily Bingham deconstructs ‘My Old Kentucky Home’ as the SJHS gathered at The Temple
By Andrew Adler Community Editor There was plenty of activity, inquiry and a fair bit of matters culinary this past Nov. 1 at The Temple, when the Southern Jewish Historical Society (SJHS) opened its 2024 annual conference with a tour … Read More
D’var Torah: The joy of coming home
By Rabbi Matthew Derrenbacher Not long ago, we began the book of Numbers, Bamidbar, which opens with God speaking to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai and commanding him to take a census of all the men age 20 and … Read More
2024 Yom HaShoah Commemoration will tell Halina Preston’s Story
By Matt Golden Director, Jewish Community Relations Council The intricate stories of the Holocaust are as unique as snowflakes, melting. Each story of loss or survival is extraordinarily rare and precious but fading. Yet, when combined, those individual tragedies lose … Read More
Sarah Harlan named executive director of National Council of Jewish Women, Louisville Section
By Andrew Adler Community Editor National Council of Jewish Women, Louisville Section has a new executive director: Sarah Harlan, currently head of The Temple’s religious school and the Louisville High School of Jewish Studies. Harlan will begin her new job on … Read More
Nancy Chazen resigns as executive director of NCJW, Louisville Section to become executive director of The Temple
(This story will be updated) By Andrew Adler Community Editor Nancy Chazen announced today (July 6) that she was stepping down as executive director of National Council of Jewish Women, Louisville Section, to become the new executive director of The … Read More
Further statement on the Monday, April 10 shootings in downtown Louisville
The Jewish Federation of Louisville, Jewish Family & Career Services, the Jewish Community Relations Council, congregations Adath Jeshurun, Anshei Sfard, Chabad of Kentucky, Keneseth Israel, The Temple Adath Israel Brith Sholom, Temple Shalom, the Louisville Board of Rabbis and Cantors … Read More