When Rabbi Lewis Kamrass, the senior rabbi of Wise Temple, decided he was ready to retire at the end of a 40-year tenure, he wanted to avoid leaving the congregation […]
The 23rd annual Tribeca Film Fest, which took place in June, offered a number of Jewish-themed movies and documentaries, on subjects ranging from fashion to a late in life Bat […]
The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion has reached a temporary agreement with the Ohio Attorney General’s Office that prevents the college from selling any items from the Cincinnati Klau […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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’ […]
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 […]