Author: JCPConnect

  • Super Sunday: Be A Hero

    Super Sunday: Be A Hero

    We’re bringing a successful 2017 Annual Campaign to a close, but are mounting one last push to close the last round of gifts. Sunday, February 5, Memphis Jewish Foundation staff and volunteers will be calling past and prospective donors in the annual heroic effort known as Super Sunday. To those…

  • Casting Call for Steven Spielberg Film: Looking for a Jewish Boy 6-9 Years Old

    Casting Call for Steven Spielberg Film: Looking for a Jewish Boy 6-9 Years Old

    Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment is hosting open casting calls for the role of EDGARDO in the film, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. Online video submissions are also accepted (see below). The production is casting a boy age 6-9, and the search is on across Europe and North America.  Amblin Entertainment issued…

  • Four New Israeli Technologies Ahead of the Cutting Edge

    Four New Israeli Technologies Ahead of the Cutting Edge

    This week, Bloomberg News released their Bloomberg Innovation Index for 2017, which ranked 50 countries based on the strength of each country’s research and development, productivity, high-tech density, higher education, concentration of researchers, added value in manufacturing, and patent activity. Israel took the 10th spot this year, living up to one of…

  • Free Expressions of Faith

    Free Expressions of Faith

    By Ariel Wexler My trip to Israel was a life-changing experience that connected me to my sense of spirituality and Judaism, and also allowed me to form friendships that will last a lifetime. My trip was through BBYO, and it was called ILSI (International Leadership Seminar in Israel). One of…

  • Jewish Foundation of Memphis Distributes Record-Breaking $6.5 Million in  Grants to Non-Profits in 2016

    Jewish Foundation of Memphis Distributes Record-Breaking $6.5 Million in Grants to Non-Profits in 2016

    By Alyson Chensasky Last year was a banner year for the Jewish Foundation of Memphis’ grants to non-profits. Through the generosity of individuals and families who work with the Foundation to make their charitable grants, $6.5 million was distributed in 2016. This amount was dispersed to 684 non-profits locally and…

  • 2016: JCP Made an Impact

    2016: JCP Made an Impact

    Though we’re still smack in the middle of our 2017 Annual Community Campaign and need every donor to give, we wanted to pause and share our pride in what community giving was able to accomplish in 2016, in Memphis, in Israel, and around the world. It’s because of you, the…

  • JAFI: Connecting Jews to Israel

    JAFI: Connecting Jews to Israel

    The latest download of news from our partners at The Jewish Agency for Israel is filled with stories about action, passion, and impact. Read on to learn more about the lives we change together through philanthropy.   BRINGING ISRAEL TO JEWISH COMMUNITIES Building bridges in the face of adversity. After…

  • A Secret Jew, the New World, a Lost Book: Mystery Solved

    A Secret Jew, the New World, a Lost Book: Mystery Solved

    Originally published in the New York Times, Jan. 1, 2017 It is perhaps the most significant artifact documenting the arrival of Jews in the New World: a small, tattered 16th-century manuscript written in an almost microscopic hand by Luis de Carvajal the Younger, the man whose life and pain it…

  • Finding Enlightenment on a Multi-Cultural Adventure

    Finding Enlightenment on a Multi-Cultural Adventure

    By Maddie Bullard Last summer, I had the amazing, once in a lifetime opportunity to take a trip to Israel, the Holy Land. The trip itself was amazing, but even better, I got to experience it along with a big group of friends. We started in Prague and Poland with…

  • Celia’s Chanukah Miracle

    Celia’s Chanukah Miracle

    “I think it would be a surprise to get a Chanukah present you didn’t know you were going to get. And happy. You would have something to play with. I didn’t think there would be very much kids who didn’t get Chanukah presents, but there are some. If we have…