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Pride Shabbat at The Temple

June 22, 2019/in Featured

Thank you, everyone, for coming to our Pride Shabbat at The Temple!  It was an incredible day of equality, inclusion, spirituality, and rainbows!  Thank you INNER VOICES of Kentuckiana and everyone for making it such a success!

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The Temple commemorates Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Pride Month with our Fifth Annual Pride Shabbat. The Temple represents the only Jewish congregation in Kentucky that commemorates LGBTQ Pride Month with a special Shabbat Service.

The Temple has always promoted the two central ideals in Jewish teachings “Love thy neighbor” and “all people are created in God’s image.” Throughout The Temple’s 175 year history Rabbis and lay leaders have been active in civil rights and in advocating for fair treatment of all people including LGBTQ individuals.

Judaism teaches that the differences between humans are a divine act: God created us different and distinct from each other. Every one of us has our own face, opinions, and orientation. Some of us have one sexual orientation and one gender identity, and some have another. We were all created in God’s image.

Together with our lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender members, we celebrate the sanctity of every human life.  Additionally, we seek to realize the divine image inherent in us all. The Temple is leading religious discourse that seeks to welcome LGBTQ members as equals in society at large and in our own community. A genuine invitation to join our community requires recognition of the unique value and life stories of LGBTQ people and celebration of the contribution they make to our Temple.

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/

Yom Kippur

September 20, 2018/in Featured, News

Yom Kippur ended with a special musical event with Student Cantor Mike Jarvis, an educational with Rabbi Rapport, and our closing Nehilah service.

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As Fall approaches, Jews throughout the world prepare for a unique ten-day period of prayer, self-examination, fasting, and repentance. It is time for the Yamim Noraim, the Days of Awe, the High Holy Days: Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. These holidays are preceded by a month of reflection: the Hebrew month of Elul. During this time, morning worship includes special penitential prayers and concludes with the blowing of the shofar as a reminder of the approaching season of atonement.  High Holy Day services at The Temple are led from Mishkan Hanefesh, the new Machzor of Reform Judaism, Creative Children’s Services feature storybook themes, and Classical Services are led from the Sinai Edition of the Old Union Prayer book.

 

Welcoming Student Cantor Mike Jarvis

August 31, 2018/in Featured, News

Over 120 Temple members joined us for dinner, services and a special Oneg to welcome our new Student Cantor, Mike Jarvis.

Mike Jarvis spent the first part of his life as a business process developer working in downtown Washington D.C. before he began to question whether he wanted to devote his whole life to making the wealthy wealthier. In 2012 he graduated with a dual-major in Vocal Performance and Interdisciplinary Religion before beginning the process of Cantorial ordination program at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion. He is excited for the opportunity to tend to the spiritual and emotional needs of the Jewish people and especially to show young people that Judaism can be interesting, rewarding, and even cool.



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