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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Before Oct. 7, Jews in Cincinnati and across the U.S. had already seen a multi-year rise in antisemitism. But since Oct. 7, when Hamas – the Iran-backed terrorist organization in […]
In the week after Oct. 7, when 1,200 people were massacred in Israeli communities near Gaza by Hamas, a donor called Danielle Minson to set up a brief meeting. “We […]