We have received and listened to some strong concerns expressed by several families about moving HSJS to Wednesday evenings. After lengthy discussions and much thought, the HSJS board has responded and voted to maintain the Sunday 12:30-2:30 schedule. We hope that all our families will, in turn, respect that our community has a vested interest […]
Today we shared a terrific last day of classes and celebrated the end of the school year and some important milestones for HSJS: >Our Moot Beit Din team took second place in their division in the national competition! >Our end of the semester course evaluation results continue to impress—on a scale of 1 to 5, […]
We were a small but mighty group of Jewish learners today. The confirmation students were honored to learn from Rabbi Or Zohar, who’s here in Louisville for a week of teaching and sharing. Next week is our last Sunday of the school year! We’ll have our usual classes, but they’ll run consecutively, with no break […]
We had a fabulous and extraordinarily enlightening tour of Old Jewish Louisville today! We covered everything from the old/original Adath Jeshurun, Keneseth Israel, Temple/Adath Israel Brith Sholom, and Jewish Hospital buildings to Levy’s Department Store and Louis Brandeis’s childhood home. We all wished it had been a little warmer and dryer, but I think everyone […]
I hope everyone had a delicious and meaningful Passover! This Sunday, April 15, we’ll be taking our all school field trip to tour Old Jewish Louisville. We’ll be leaving JFCS PROMPTLY at 12:30, so make sure you drop off no later than 12:15 so you don’t miss the bus. We’ll return at approximately 2:45 so […]
What a great day we had—our usual, engaging, inspired Jewish learning bookending a delightful performance by Hooshir, the Jewish a cappella group from IU that’s in town this weekend. We’re off the next two weeks: Chag Pesach Sameach and a safe spring break to all. When we return on April 15 we have a special […]
Thank you to Rabbi Jacowitz Chottiner for keeping us politically and socially aware: the Holocaust Education bill is coming up for a floor vote this week—please use the link below to find the contact info for your legislator and call and urge them to support this Judaically-vital piece of legislation: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/Find%20Your%20Legislator/Find%20Your%20Legislator.html If you’d like to […]
Our Moot Beit Din team handily countered the arguments presented to them by a competing team from Memphis; we had several students getting their Torah yoga on; and our Jews and Video Games students just finished taking a critical look at how Jews in the Holocaust are depicted in the newly released Call of Duty […]
Even with our small numbers because of a regional BBYO convention this weekend, we had an especially engaging afternoon. As part of the WZO Educators’ weekend here in Louisville, we had the opportunity to learn with Yosefi Perlmuter, who led a fascinating program about human rights in Israel. Ask your kids about it! And our […]
We were honored to see the film, Fanny’s Journey, today as part of the 20th Annual Louisville Jewish Film Festival. Huge thanks to Marsha Bornstein and her committee for assembling such a great array of fabulous films, and a special thanks to the Ann and Coleman Friedman Children’s Judaic Activity Fund for making the film […]