How Holocaust Education Took Jodi Elowitz From MN To Cincinnati To Working For Ohio
As Jodi Elowitz puts it, the field of Holocaust education has a habit of choosing people, whether they intended to work in it or not. For her, that moment of […]
HUC-JIR Alludes To ‘Agreement’ As Judge Grants Temporary Restraining Order Against The College
In a Tuesday email to staff, students, and faculty at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, President Andrew Rehfeld tried to dispel concerns about the legal action that the […]
Ohio AG Takes Legal Action Against HUC-JIR For Klau Library Mishandling, Potential Sales
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with an internal email from HUC-JIR President Andrew Rehfeld. In legal action sparked by Cincy Jewfolk’s reporting on the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute […]
Abby Schwartz & Sheri Besso To Leave Skirball In June
Sheri Besso, the collections manager and preparator at the Cincinnati Skirball Museum, and Abby Schwartz, the museum’s former director and now part-time curatorial consultant, will be leaving the Skirball in […]
Linda Strauss Pens Children’s Book On The Sarajevo Haggadah
Shortly after 9/11, Linda Strauss decided to write a children’s book about the 600 year old Sarajevo Haggadah. Originally from Spain, and carried elsewhere by a family fleeing the Inquisition, […]
How To Close A Campus: HUC-JIR Bleeds Money While Cincinnati Pays The Price
In this story: How to close a campus ‘Crushing’ deficits and fundraising woes Loss and loathing in Cincinnati Strife and success in the Great Recession The crazy-making of ‘One HUC’ […]
Why Cincy Jewfolk Reported On HUC-JIR
In July 2022, when Jewfolk, Inc., received a major grant from the Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati to create Cincy Jewfolk, I may have been a little too excited. All I […]
Talia Smolkin Talks Being Jewish Fertility Foundation Cincy Manager
For Talia Smolkin, being the Cincinnati manager of the Jewish Fertility Foundation, and helping to support people struggling with infertility, is another way to live up to life-long Jewish values. […]
How Geri Kolesar Wrote A Children’s Book About Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise
Several years ago, Geri Kolesar was chatting with Andrea Rapp, the librarian at the Isaac M. Wise Temple, when Rapp brought up an interesting point. “The namesake of our temple […]
Rabbi Julie Schwartz Continues Chaplaincy Work With New Teaching Program At Jewish Hospital
In spring 2022, when the board of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion voted to shut down its rabbinical school in Cincinnati, Rabbi Julie Schwartz saw the writing on […]