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Nora Rubel, associate professor at the University of Rochester, speaks during the “Too Jewish? Imagining the Ultra-Orthodox and America" Zoom webinar on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023.

‘Jewish Orthodoxy Today’: UK Jewish Studies Program hosts lecture series

Owen Chesemore, Reporter February 22, 2023

Professor Nora Rubel delivered a lecture, “Too Jewish? Imagining the Ultra-Orthodox and America,” on Feb. 19, as a part of the Zoom webinar series “Jewish Orthodoxy Today,” sponsored by UK’s...

Ten members of the UK and Lexington communities took part in a prayer during the event held in solidarity with UK's Jewish community on Thursday, January 25, 2018 at the Jacobs Science Building on UK's campus in Lexington, Ky. Photo by Arden Barnes | Staff

Vandalism, violence: Jewish student center weathers the danger of rising storm

Daniel Jeong January 12, 2021

Chabad of the Bluegrass is no stranger to antisemitism.The organization, which in part runs the Jewish Student Center at UK, has been the target of repeated vandalism. The sign outside of its campus house...

UK Jewish Student Center shines light on attack

By McKenna Horsley November 10, 2016

Rabbi Shlomo Litvin and one of his colleagues came to the UK Jewish Student Center and Chabad on the morning of Thursday, Oct. 27 to find someone had vandalized the center.The center's Mezuzah, a scroll...

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