University of Louisville
Three Louisville arts groups are collaborating with performances honoring International Holocaust Remembrance Day
By Andrew Adler Community Editor Two inmates at a Nazi concentration camp create an opera, only to perish in Auschwitz along with their entire cast and orchestra – except for a pair of prisoners. One of them, a teenage violinist who … Read More
Felice Sachs’s textile art launches an ongoing Jewish Artists exhibition series at U of L
By Andrew Adler Community Editor If you venture up to the second floor of the University of Louisville’s Ekstrom Library and find your way to the Susan and William Yarmuth Jewish Studies Reading Room, you’ll spot a pair of display … Read More
Out of a forgotten file box, a vibrant Jewish life emerges
By Andrew Adler Community Editor For years – decades, even – the unassuming file box had occupied an equally unassuming space in the garage of a home on Louisville’s Wendell Ave. Measuring about a cubic foot, colored a dull avocado … Read More
Twenty years after merger, “Mayor for Life” Jerry Abramson recalls how we moved from division to unity
By Andrew Adler Community Editor It was two decades ago that – after generations of missteps and misstarts, pledges, projections and all manner of political maneuverings – the City of Louisville and Jefferson County reconciled their differences and became one entity: … Read More
Abigail Goldberg heads up youth programs from teens to adults
By Community Staff Fresh out of college, Louisville native Abigail Goldberg has joined the Jewish Federation and Jewish Community Center as Teen Director and Philanthropy Outreach. Goldberg will oversee BBYO and Teen Connection as well as serve as the new … Read More
Abramson named to UofL BOT
By staff and releases Former Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson has joined the University of Louisville Board of Trustees. Abramson, who attended his first meeting of the board in September, was named to the panel in late July by Gov. Andy … Read More
Ottenheimer award goes to Houstons — community leaders
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor To Wade and Alice Houston, business and sports have something important in common: Both are ways that the couple gives back to their community. Wade, a former basketball player and Division I college coach, and … Read More
Yarmuths’ gift to make Jewish Studies Reading Room a reality
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
Greenberg announces his run for mayor
By staff and releases Louisville businessman Craig Greenberg, a Democrat, announced his candidacy for mayor Wednesday, entering a growing field that already includes three other candidates. If he wins, it will mark the return of a Jewish Louisvillian to the … Read More