Author: JCPConnect
-
JCP Staff Spotlight: Carrie Richardson
Many readers know the Jewish Community Partners staff through our work. Each Friday, you’ll hear from a different member of the team in our own words, sharing more of the story of who we are. Carrie Richardson Executive Administration Assistant to the CEO Birthplace: Memphis, Tennessee College: UT…
-
Advisor Spotlight: Renee Castle
By Alyson Chensasky Professional advisors play a unique and important role in the development of current and planned charitable gifts by helping you make informed decisions about charitable giving. Through our Professional Advisory Group (PAG), the Foundation encourages professional advisors to promote charitable giving with their clients, using the Foundation as…
-
The Impact of Better Together’s Names, Not Numbers
The 55th Annual Yom HaShoah Community Observance will feature a film produced by students at the Margolin Hebrew Academy/Feinstone Yeshiva of the South (MHA/FYOS), who have spent this year interviewing local Holocaust survivors. The students’ work is a part of Better Together’s Names, Not Numbers program, an interactive, multi-media Holocaust…
-
“We Want People to Know They’re Still Women”: JDC Takes the Fight Against Breast Cancer to Eastern Europe
It started, like so many revolutions these days, with a blog Breast cancer is a taboo subject in much of Eastern Europe, and women there often feel alone in their struggles against the disease. Bori Halom started blogging in 2012, largely out of a need to break this silence. Soon…
-
JCP Staff Spotlight: Alyson Chensasky
Many readers know the Jewish Community Partners staff through our work. Each Friday, you’ll hear from a different member of the team in our own words, sharing more of the story of who we are. Alyson Chensasky Director, Endowment and Professional Advisor Development Birthplace: Duncan, Oklahoma. College/Graduate school:…
-
Camp Ramah Yachad: Vital Jewish Experiences
By Annabelle Baer Last summer, I spent two weeks at a Russian-speaking Jewish summer camp in Ukraine. Eleven Jewish teens, including myself, represented different Ramah camps as counselors at Camp Ramah Yachad. With Judaism as our common bond, and Hebrew as our common language, this was one of the hardest,…
-
The Morris and Mollye Fogelman International Jewish Film Festival
Because our offices are tucked inside the MJCC, it’s been impossible to miss the buzz as they prepared for the Morris and Mollye Fogelman International Jewish Film Festival, which kicks off this Thursday, February 16, with a screening of Remember, 7:30 P.M. at the Malco Paradiso. With nine screenings over eleven…
-
Rhodes College Presents Jerry Brotton and James Shapiro: Jews and Muslims in Shakespeare’s World
On Rhodes College campus on February 22 at 6:00 P.M., renowned Renaissance scholars Jerry Brotton and James Shapiro will discuss Jews and Muslims in Tudor England. Two preeminent cultural historians, Shapiro and Brotton will engage in a far-ranging dialogue about how Judaism and Islam were – and remain – part…
-
Seniors Starting Over
By Jay Menuskin Moving to Memphis has been a real adventure for Marcia and me. I had lived in Chattanooga for all my life, and Marcia had lived there since shortly after we got married in 1958. My parents were both born in Chattanooga, and Marcia’s parents lived in Knoxville, where…
-
Community Member Calls for Activism, Looks to Form Chavurah
Charlie Belenky is calling on progressive Jews in Memphis to coalesce around a cause: promoting mishpat (justice for all), and tikun olam (repairing the environment). This as yet unnamed Chavurah is open to members of all congregations as well as the unaffiliated and non-observant. It’s part of a county-wide initiative and will not…