The Joint Annual Meeting of the Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Community Federation celebrated the new Jewish Community of Louisville. The meeting was on Monday, June 29, at 7 p.m. at the JCC. All traditional community awards were presented.

Blanche B. Ottenheimer Award: Justice Lisabeth Hughes Abramson

Arthur S. Kling Staff Recognition Award: Andrea Cohen Melendez

Elsie P. Judah Award: Emily Podgursky

Lewis W. Cole Young Leadership Award: Jennifer Tuvlin

Joseph J. Kaplan Young Leadership Award: Allan Latts

Ronald and Marie Abrams Volunteer of the Year Award: Ann Klein

Ellen Faye Garmon Award: Nathan Spielberg

Stacy Marks Nisenbaum Award: Sarah Ensign

Joseph Fink Award: Daniel Ensign

Stuart Pressma Awards: Rachel Ford, Alyssa Lapin, Alyssa Wolff

June 19, 2009- Since the Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Community Federation merged to become the Jewish Community of Louisville on May 1, there has been a lot of excitement as members of the community anticipate restructuring that will result in the vibrant, responsive, energized agency communal leaders envision.

The Louisville Jewish Community has reason to be proud. On Super Sunday, February 22, and during the following week, more than 115 volunteers made calls to members of the Louisville Jewish community. More than 700 individuals responded, pledging approximately $230,000 to the 2009 Federation Annual Campaign. That represents a 8.5 percent increase over the amount pledged by the same people last year. More than 170 people who did not participate in last year’s Campaign made commitments to the 2009 Campaign.

The teachers at Western High School will tell you many of their students face real life challenges. A large portion of the student body qualifies for free or reduced cost lunches, which means they come from economically challenged families. Many students also deal with a variety of other problems prevalent in poverty-stricken homes: parents unavailable for them, having to fend for themselves, hunger, abuse, teen pregnancy, drugs, poor reading skills and much more.

After a one-semester hiatus, the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School is again operating in Louisville.
When the Louisville Jewish community launched its Melton site in 1999, it tapped into a population hungry to learn. Here was an opportunity to engage in serious Jewish learning, as adults, centered on finding meaning rather than learning facts.

The Federation Annual Campaign's Women's Event on December 4 was a celebration of what women can do and a challenge to those present to identify a vision then strive to achieve it. The event, held at The Temple, drew a crowd that filled the chapel, as Carolyn Neustadt received the Kipnis-Wilson/Friedland Award and Laurie Ann Goldman, the CEO of Spanx, told her story and inspired her listeners to strive to achieve their goals. more

“Mother's Circle is something I've been waiting for for nine years,” said Christon Segal.

The wait is over. Mothers Circle, a program of the Jewish Community Federation, is an educational and support program for mothers of different faiths who have chosen to raise their children Jewish. It began meeting  September 14. more

The mashgiach, or kosher supervisor, is the foot soldier of the kosher food industry. Thousands of them travel the world to inspect factories, kitchens, tanker trucks, slaughterhouses, bakeries, butchers and supermarkets, overseeing meal preparation for hotels, Jewish schools, synagogues and summer camps.

Federation Earns Four Star Rating From Charity Navigator

The smells of freshly baked dough, melting chocolate and sweet spices filled the Adath Jeshurun kitchen on Sunday, June 7, at the Traditional Jewish Desserts Baking Class, sponsored by the Jewish Community of Louisville.

Genesis tells the story of our origins and Exodus, our escape. Leviticus is a tale of sacrifice, and in Numbers, we wandered in the Wilderness. Deuteronomy sums up our story. So, too, the story of the Holocaust can be retold.

Daniel Ensign, a senior at duPont Manual High School's High School University program, is this year's recipient of the Ellen and Milton Cantor Israel Scholarship.

If you've ever moved to a new town, you know how challenging it can be. There are a myriad of details to attend to, and you don't know where anything is. Even after a few months, making the right connections to find doctors, places of worship and friends can be difficult.

“For a limited time, our community's retirees have a unique opportunity to make significant contributions to the Jewish Community Federation's Annual Campaign and its Foundation for Planned Giving using their IRA distributions,” said the Federation's Foundation for Planned Giving Director Frances Skolnick,” and I'm excited to tell them about it. Many donors have found this to be a smart and useful way to support our community.”  more

During a tree planting ceremony held in honor of JFVS' 100th anniversary on Sunday, December 7, Judy Freundlich Tiell, executive director of the Jewish Family & Vocational Service, announced that the Board of Directors has changed the organization's name to the Jewish Family & Career Services. The new name, which was chosen to better reflect the organization's mission, will go into effect on January 1. more

In June, Ed Cohen was elected president of the Jewish Community Federation. Recently, he sat down with Community to share his vision for the Louisville Jewish community and some of his thoughts about how to achieve those goals. more

July 11, 2008 - Jewish Hospital has been ranked as one of America's Best Hospitals for the fifth year in a row in U.S. News's 2008 publication accessible online at www.usnews.com/besthospitals and on sale at newsstands. more

Every day, we watch the prices at the gas pumps go up and wonder how much higher they are going to go. And as gas prices rise, so do the prices on almost everything else. We are all feeling the pinch.

That makes the Federation Annual Campaign even more crucial this year. more