May 20, 2024
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 […]
May 16, 2024
Seventy-six years ago, in the Tel Aviv Museum, today known as Independence Hall, the founders of the modern state of Israel held a ceremony. For the first time in 2,000 […]
May 13, 2024
To be recognized as a Ger Tzaddik, Righteous Among the Nations is a rare honor given by Israel to those who saved Jewish lives during the Holocaust. Chiune Sugihara was […]
May 10, 2024
A Progressive Queer Jew’s Thoughts on Israel/Palestine, Antisemitism, and Zionism Over the last six months, friends and peers have asked unique questions because of my identity and position as a […]
May 4, 2024
Several hundred community members will unite in solidarity with the people of Israel on Thursday, May 16, 2024, at 8:30 am, for Jewish National Fund-USA’s annual Breakfast for Israel in […]
April 29, 2024
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, […]
April 19, 2024
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’ […]
April 19, 2024
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 […]
April 16, 2024
Around 280 people gathered at the Mayerson JCC on Apr. 15 for the Jewish Federation’s “After Oct. 7” series, a conversation, and Q&A with Israeli activist Hen Mazzig. Mazzig is […]
April 8, 2024
Good Morning Jewfolk! It is officially the day I have been waiting for when a Total Solar Eclipse will pass over a large swath of the United States. While our […]