Tag: JCP Memphis

  • Our Partners Secure Community Network Recognized as Leader by DHS, FBI

    Our Partners Secure Community Network Recognized as Leader by DHS, FBI

    By Mark Wilf, Chair of Jewish Federations of North America Board of Trustees. Last summer, Jewish Community Partners partnered with the Secure Community Network (SCN), the official homeland security initiative of the organized North American Jewish community, to launch a Regional Security Director program with the hiring of Memphis resident,…

  • An Israeli in Memphis: I Feel an Embrace

    An Israeli in Memphis: I Feel an Embrace

    Tali Versano Eisman, resident of Memphis’s Israeli partner city Shoham and a member of the Memphis-Shoham project’s steering committee, visited Memphis in October to deepen ties between the two communities, and to speak at this year’s Israel Festival. In this piece, she reflects on her visit, the love for Israel…

  • Bringing Hanukkah to Christian Brothers University

    Bringing Hanukkah to Christian Brothers University

    By Dr. Stan Eisen, Professor and Director  of Preprofessonal Health Programs, Biology Department, Christian Brothers University Photos by Mary Nikkel   Christian Brothers University prides itself as welcoming students and staff of all traditions and faiths. Even so, there has never been a Hanukkah Menorah lighting ceremony until now. On…

  • Omri Casspi Celebrates Hanukkah with the Memphis Jewish Community

    Omri Casspi Celebrates Hanukkah with the Memphis Jewish Community

    When all 6 feet and nine inches of Israeli basketballer Omri Casspi ducked under the door and into the MJCC’s Belz Theater, the crowd gathered for this one-of-a-kind Hanukkah celebration knew they were experiencing something special. Rabbis from every Memphis congregation and agencies like the MJCC and Hillels of Memphis…

  • 70 Faces Project Highlights Community’s Compelling Personal Narratives

    70 Faces Project Highlights Community’s Compelling Personal Narratives

    Memphis Jewish Federation’s yearlong celebration of Israel’s 70th birthday will culminate with an exhibit highlighting individuals from the Memphis Jewish community as well as from Shoham, Memphis’s partner city in Israel, announced Laura Linder, President and CEO of Jewish Community Partners. The 70 Faces exhibit will launch on Monday, December…

  • Lauren Luskey Taube: Driven by Community and Family Values

    Lauren Luskey Taube: Driven by Community and Family Values

    What values do you live by? How do you express your values in your work and personal life? What makes a value Jewish? How do these values shape who you are and who you want to become? At the first seminar of the Next Gen Jewish Federation Fellowship last May,…

  • Memphis Jewish Federation Announces Need-Based Israel Travel Subsidies for First Timer Adults

    MJF is thrilled to announce the creation of a new Lemsky Endowment Fund initiative providing travel subsidies for first-time Memphis Jewish adults participating in an organized Israel trip, who have demonstrated financial need. Any Jewish Memphian over age 32 (post Birthright) who joins a Memphis-based Federation, Synagogue or JCC trip…

  • A Closer Connection to Israel: Teen Israel Experience

    A Closer Connection to Israel: Teen Israel Experience

    By David Mashinsky   This past summer, I went to Israel on NCSY TJJ (The Jerusalem Journey). I had already been to Israel multiple times to visit family. I heard about the trip from a friend and thought I would go because my friends are going. I wasn’t expecting to…

  • University of Tennessee Speaks Out Against Anti-Semitism

    University of Tennessee Speaks Out Against Anti-Semitism

    Earlier this month, violent anti-Semitic messages and imagery were twice spray-painted onto the Rock, a beloved centerpiece of the University of Tennessee Knoxville campus. When the UTK administration responded with a mild message of admonishment, Jews across the state of Tennessee were disappointed and confused by the University’s reluctance to…

  • Hate on Campus: A Letter to UT President Randy Boyd and UTK Chancellor Wayne Davis

    Hate on Campus: A Letter to UT President Randy Boyd and UTK Chancellor Wayne Davis

    In the wake of two incidents of anti-Semitic messages scrawled on the iconic “rock” at University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK), the four Jewish Federations of Tennessee (Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga and Knoxville) sent a joint letter to UT President Randy Boyd and UTK Chancellor Wayne Davis, asking the university system to condemn…