NPR

The Bluegrass Schmooze

When Shani Abramowitz and Ben Freed took their first jobs as rabbis in Lexington and Louisville, they got one question from their classmates and friends: There are Jews in Kentucky? The short answer ...
WDRB

Lexington rabbi says Texas synagogue attack was 'clearly targeting Jews'

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Rabbi Shlomo Litvin, of the Chabad of the Bluegrass, rattled off the names of some of the attacks on synagogues that have occurred in recent months and years. Since 2018, ...
NPR

As American Jews speak out on Israel, some see rifts in their communities

In the wake of October 7, and the bombardment of Gaza by the Israeli government, many American Jews have found themselves questioning something that had long felt like a consensus: that Jewish safety ...
Rolling Stone

How Nefesh Mountain Are Fighting Anti-Semitism With Traditional Bluegrass

Eric Lindberg and Doni Zasloff, the core of the bluegrass group Nefesh Mountain, had just returned from a family trip to Poland and the Ukraine in 2018 when news broke about a mass shooting at the ...
lex18

'This was clearly targeting Jews': Lexington rabbi saddened by latest attack at Texas synagogue

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Rabbi Shlomo Litvin, from the Chabad of the Bluegrass, rattles off the names of all the attacks on synagogues we've seen in recent months and years. Since 2018, or less than ...