Yom HaShoah
« All Events Yom HaShoah April 13 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Please join us for our annual Yom HaShoah Community Event. Monday, April 13, 6:30 – 8 p.m. Adath Jeshurun2401 Woodbourne Ave, Louisville, KY 40205 Our keynote speaker will …
Yom HaShoah
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
Trager Family JCC to host Yom HaShoah commemoration
By Andrew Adler Community Editor On Monday, April 17, the Trager Family JCC will join the rest of the world in observing Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day. The hour-long ceremony begins at 6:30 p.m. and will unfold on the … Read More
Steamship Quanza remembered YH program puts spotlights on refugees saved during Holocaust, and today
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
Remembering the Quanza: Film slated for 2020 Yom Hashoah program to be seen in Louisville at last
By Community staff This year’s Yom Hashoah program will finally include a film about a steamship bound for freedom, which Jewish Louisville was supposed to have seen two years ago. Nobody Wants Us, a documentary by Laura Seltzer-Duny, will be … Read More
Grandson to remember Ann, Sandor Klein at annual Yom HaShoah program
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor Ann and Sandor Klein lived lives that resonate to this day. Childhood sweethearts from the same village in Hungary, Sandor left for America in 1938, serving as an Army Air Corps sergeant during World War … Read More
Louisville to mark Yom HaShoah with taped program
(Editor’s note: This is a corrected version of the story, noting that the program can be streamed on YouTube; the time and date are the same. The link is embedded in the text.) Every year, hundreds of Louisvillians gather somewhere … Read More
Chiune Sugihara: Yom HaShoah program pays tribute to Japanese diplomat
Sonia Milrod said she wouldn’t be here – meaning alive – were it not for the courage of a wartime Japanese diplomat named Chiune Sugihara. Likewise, she wouldn’t be here – meaning America – if post-war immigration laws mirrored today’s … Read More
What Passover, Yom HaShoah and Sean Spicer teach us
Late last year, Rabbi Irwin Kula gave a compelling community address titled “Embracing Change.” During his address, he noted that the most observed Jewish practice today is the Passover Seder. The order and structure of the Seder are much the … Read More
Children perform ‘I Never Saw Another Butterfly’ for Yom HaShoah program
Like butterflies, the names of the children filled the air. It wasn’t just their names, though. It was their drawings, their music, even their dreams. One said she would eat nothing but white bread when she went home, another would … Read More