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Louisville Vigil for Pittsburgh & Kroger Shootings

October 28, 2018/in Featured, News

Louisville Vigil From WLKY:

Hundreds of people attended a vigil at a local temple Sunday night in memory of the 11 people killed in a synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday.

“Regardless of our faith and traditions, we are all one and that is one human race,” said Haleh Karimi, the executor director of Interfaith Paths to Peace.

It was standing room only at Temple Shalom as more than 200 people gathered to honor those killed at the Tree of Life Synagogue.

“There are Jews, there are Christians, there are Muslims, there are Hindus,” explain Rabbi Gaylia R. Rooks. “I mean its just so meaningful and touching and I think that we all wanted to come together as a community just to say ‘Not in our America.'”

For many, like Rooks, the news of Saturday’s shooting came as a painful shock.

“That this could happen on such a sacred day in the synagogue, I couldn’t believe it,” Rooks explained.

“I have been through too many of these, as we all have,” said Rep. John Yarmuth, who attended Sunday’s vigil.

Yarmuth called people of every faith to action.

“We have to commit ourselves to pushing back against hatred, racism, bigotry in any form,” Yarmuth said.

Many joined hands as rabbis from throughout Louisville shared messages of peace and led the crowd in prayer.

“When we come together as one, that’s when we can recognize each other’s similarities and be able to connect as one,” Karimi said.

Rooks said these tragedies can only be stopped if people open their hearts to one another.

“I think that if you can sit down with someone and show them pictures of your kids, and share a meal, break bread together, get to know who they are and their hopes and dreams, and see them as human beings,” Rooks said.

Links to other news articles:

  • http://www.wdrb.com/story/39373174/hundreds-attend-local-vigil-to-remember-victims-of-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting
  • https://www.wave3.com/2018/10/29/louisville-comes-together-comfort-unity-sunday/

Trager ECEC Fall Ball

October 28, 2018/in Featured, News

What fun was had at the 2018 Temple Trager ECEC Fall Ball at The Temple! Thanks for coming out and enjoying the fun!


The Temple Trager ECEC fosters a learning environment.  We encourage intellectual, social-emotional, spiritual and physical experiences for ages 6 weeks – Kindergarten. The Temple Trager Early Childhood Education Center (ECEC) is a Liberal Jewish Preschool. It presents a broad-based curriculum within the context of moral and ethical values. Our students study the Jewish holidays as they arise throughout the year. At the Temple Trager ECEC, we learn about their Biblical and historical basis as well as the songs, foods, symbols, and games associated with each.

Young Adult Pumpkin Picking

October 21, 2018/in Featured, News, Young Adult

Our Young Adult group had fun at Joe Huber’s for a day of pumpkin picking and delicious food!

Young Adult Pumpkin Picking
Young Adult Pumpkin Picking
Young Adult Pumpkin Picking
Young Adult Pumpkin Picking

The Temple Young Adult Group offers fun social outings for adults age 22-36. Past events included Evan Williams Bourbon Experience, Young Adult Seder, Hanukkah Party, and Painting Event. For more information, please contact Benji Berlow.  Join the Young Adult Group on Facebook to find out about upcoming events!

If you are new to Louisville, we invite you to look around our website and join us for some of our upcoming events, learn more about our Religious School and top-rated Pre-school, meet our rabbis, and worship with us. For more information about The Temple or the Jewish Community in Louisville, please fill out this form.  We hope to see you soon!

Annual Peace by Piece Concert brings communities together through song

October 20, 2018/in Featured, News

What a great crowd at our annual interfaith concert, Peace by Piece. Thank you to all that attended.


Each year, this concert expands, bringing more and more people together in song.  Made possible by the Rabbi Gaylia R. Rooks Fund for Music.  Many members look for meaningful ways to honor a special occasion (birthday, anniversary, birth, etc.), express personal thanks (Rabbi, friends, family) or to memorialize a friend or loved one. Temple Funds are established to financially support a specific initiative or type of program.  You can offer a simple yet impactful opportunity to do so while supporting The Temple.

Rabbi Rick Jacobs at The Temple

October 19, 2018/in Featured, News

The Temple & Temple Shalom were honored to have Rabbi Rick Jacobs join our congregations for a special Shabbat service.

Rabbi Rick Jacobs at The Temple
Rabbi Rick Jacobs at The Temple
Rabbi Rick Jacobs at The Temple
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Rabbi Rick Jacobs at The Temple

Rabbi Rick Jacobs at The Temple
Rabbi Rick Jacobs at The Temple

Rabbi Rick Jacobs is president of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), the most powerful force in North American Jewish life. The URJ leads the largest and most diverse Jewish movement in North America, with almost 900 congregations reaching nearly 1.5 million people. Immediately after his nomination as URJ president, Newsweek placed him at number seven on their 2011 list of “America’s 50 Most Influential Rabbis,” describing him as “magnetic” and “known for prioritizing social justice … and rethinking worship to engage the disaffected.”

Under the dedicated and creative leadership of Rabbi Jacobs, the URJ is engaged in the ongoing implementation of the URJ’s strategic 2020 Vision, a bold and ambitious action plan for the future of Reform Judaism structured around three core priorities: Strengthening Congregations, Audacious Hospitality and Tikkun Olam (social justice). Deeply committed to the State of Israel, Rabbi Jacobs has studied for two decades at Jerusalem’s Shalom Hartman Institute, where he is now a senior rabbinic fellow.

Jordan Goldberg awarded Health & Hope Hero Award

Jordan Goldberg awarded Health & Hope Hero Award

October 19, 2018/in Featured, Mazal Tov, News

Jordan Goldberg was awarded the first Health & Hope Hero Award at the Supplies Over Seas 2018 Health & Hope Breakfast.  Jordan has been working to send a container to the Friends Eye Center in Ghana. Dr. Seth Wanye, chief ophthalmologist at the Friends Eye Center, was able to personally award Jordan at the Breakfast.  For more information about Supplies Over Seas, please go to http://www.suppliesoverseas.org/.  The Temple wants to give Jordan a big Mazal Tov!

Operation Finale comes to Religious School

October 8, 2018/in Featured, News

On Sunday, October 7, The Temple Religious School had a wonderful program with Avner Avraham.  Mr. Avraham is a former Mossad Agent and Curator of Operation Finale: The Capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann.

It was a truly meaningful program for our students and teachers. Students were able to ask questions and were so engaged. Thank you to our co-sponsor Temple Shalom for making this possible.


THE CHESTER B. DIAMOND RELIGIOUS SCHOOL MISSION STATEMENT:
Our learning community strives to create a caring atmosphere of friendship while encouraging meaningful understanding and a dedicated commitment to Jewish life – in school and at home. The wonderful teaching faculty is diligent that all classroom experiences are valuable and nurture a positive Jewish identity. In addition, our goal is for each student to participate in enjoyable experiences that are part of Temple life, be exposed to and internalize our biblical stories, and to embrace Jewish culture as well as Reform ethical beliefs and values.

Student cantor starts yearlong internship at The Temple

October 5, 2018/in Featured, News

Throughout its 175-year history, The Temple and its antecedents – Adath Israel and Brith Shalom – have never had a professionally trained cantor. But things are changing at Kentucky’s oldest Jewish congregation with the arrival of Student Cantor Mike Jarvis. Jarvis, 42, who was introduced to the congregation at its August 31 Rabbi’s Dinner, is starting a yearlong internship at The Temple. The second-year cantorial student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York sang in Louisville for the High Holy Days and will be here once a month through next spring.

“It’s brand new to us,” The Temple President Matt Schwartz said of the internship. Jarvis said he felt an immediate connection to the congregation when he was interviewing for internships.
“I spent a lot of time in the South,” he said. “There’s something about Southern congregations that emphasizes warmness and togetherness, and I could feel it through the screen during my interview. I could feel the warmth of that congregation.”

Jarvis’ presence at The Temple could be a prelude of things to come at The Temple. When Schwartz surveyed the members in 2014, asking them open-ended questions about what they want from their congregation, he got some eye-opening answers. “One thing that came up – and it probably came up 30 or 40 times in the survey without a question – was, ‘hey what about a cantor?’” Schwartz said. “It was just out there in the ether.” While he stopped short of calling Jarvis’ internship a test run, he did say the congregation will be regularly surveyed throughout the year, gauging the membership’s response to a cantorial presence.

Meanwhile, he doesn’t anticipate serious changes to the way The Temple worships, though he does expect to learn a thing or two. “There may be opportunities for new events,” Schwartz said. “He may bring some current thinking on music and style, things to enhance the service, but he’s, number 1, a student, and, number 2, at the direction of our rabbis.”

For Jarvis, a native of northern Virginia, the cantorate is a second career. Previously, he worked as a business process developer, helping companies streamline their operations. “It was fulfilling in a business sense, and I certainly made money from it,” he said, “but it made rich people richer, and after going into it day in and day out, I said there has to be something more fulfilling than making rich people richer.” So he went to work for the World Wildlife Fund, but was laid off after two years due to a weak economy.

That was about when Sharon Steinberg, then-cantor of Beth El Hebrew Cong in Alexandria, Virginia, where Jarvis was a member, suggested that he go to cantorial school. Jarvis, who was already helping to train b’nai mitzvah students, had an affinity for middle school kids coming of age, so it seemed like a good fit. “As a cantor, part of my job is to help kids know that Judaism is relevant and interesting,” he said, “and they are encouraged to ask questions, explore and find what’s relevant. When I was a kid, it was like, ‘you’re going to learn this whether you like it or not.’”
He went back to school, earning a degree in vocal performance and religion from James Madison University before enrolling at HUC-JIR.

While The Temple has never had a professionally trained cantor, it has had religious leaders who were musically knowledgeable. B.H. Gothelf was the “chasan” of Adath Israel from 1866-67. According to Judah M. Cohen, associate professor of music at Indiana University, the position involved many different tasks back then. “People were being hired into the position of chasan who were knowledgeable about the liturgy, [had] the ability to lead the liturgy, engage in debates as to how the liturgy was to go, and to do so meaningfully in relation to the congregation,” he said. By the 1860s and 70s, though, the cantorate and rabbinate were splitting into separate spheres that required certified trained professionals, Cohen said.

More recently, The Temple has had a choir, Shir Chadash and its leader, Louis Bailey; a vocalist, Jennifer Diamond; and a musically trained rabbi, Gaylia Rooks, to take care of its religious musical needs. “If you’re going to be leading a congregation,” said Cohen, who is coming out with a book on Jewish religious music in 19th century America, “you want to have some kind of musical knowledge.” Fully aware that he’s still a student, subject to direction from Rabbis Joe Rapport and David Ariel-Joel, Jarvis is just happy to be doing what he loves.
“I have the opportunity to bring joy to the lives of people while I’m learning,” he said.

by Lee Chottiner, from https://jewishlouisville.org/student-cantor-starts-yearlong-internship-at-the-temple/

Simchat Torah at ECEC

October 1, 2018/in Featured, News

Rabbi David teaches our preschool about Simchat Torah.

Simchat Torah at ECEC
Simchat Torah at ECEC
Simchat Torah at ECEC
Simchat Torah at ECEC
Simchat Torah at ECEC
Simchat Torah at ECEC
Simchat Torah at ECEC
Simchat Torah at ECEC
Simchat Torah at ECEC

Simchat Torah at ECEC
Simchat Torah at ECEC

Simchat Torah, Hebrew for “rejoicing in the Torah”, celebrates the completion of the annual reading of the Torah. Simchat Torah is a joyous festival, in which we affirm our view of the Torah as a tree of life. At The Temple we welcome our first grade students with a service of Consecration, the Torah scrolls are taken from the ark and carried or danced around the synagogue in a special family oriented service that is shared by all.

The Temple Trager ECEC fosters a learning environment.  We encourage intellectual, social-emotional, spiritual and physical experiences for ages 6 weeks – Kindergarten. The Temple Trager Early Childhood Education Center (ECEC) is a Liberal Jewish Preschool. It presents a broad-based curriculum within the context of moral and ethical values. Our students study the Jewish holidays as they arise throughout the year. At the Temple Trager ECEC, we learn about their Biblical and historical basis as well as the songs, foods, symbols and games associated with each.

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