Author: JCPConnect

  • My Israel Story #43- Ben Mayer

    My Israel Story #43- Ben Mayer

    We’re marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of Israel with a year-long celebration! Keep an eye out for “Memphis Celebrates Israel at 70” branding at your synagogue, at events around town, and online. In this My Israel Story series, we’re asking Memphians to tell their personal Israel stories. Do you have a…

  • My Israel Story #42- Linda Ostrow Schlesinger

    My Israel Story #42- Linda Ostrow Schlesinger

    We’re marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of Israel with a year-long celebration! Keep an eye out for “Memphis Celebrates Israel at 70” branding at your synagogue, at events around town, and online. In this My Israel Story series, we’re asking Memphians to tell their personal Israel stories. Do you have a…

  • My Israel Story #41- Rachel Shankman

    My Israel Story #41- Rachel Shankman

    We’re marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of Israel with a year-long celebration! Keep an eye out for “Memphis Celebrates Israel at 70” branding at your synagogue, at events around town, and online. In this My Israel Story series, we’re asking Memphians to tell their personal Israel stories. Do you have a…

  • Memphis Celebrates Israel at 70 with Collaborative Photography Project

    Memphis Celebrates Israel at 70 with Collaborative Photography Project

    The photos included here are from the artist’s Humans of Tel Aviv website. You can see many more on exhibit now in the MJCC lobby.  JCP is excited to announce the 70 Faces project – a joint program with Memphis’ sister city in Shoham, Israel. Through the art of photography…

  • My Israel Story #40- Rabbi Bess Wohlner and Rabbi Jeremy Simons

    My Israel Story #40- Rabbi Bess Wohlner and Rabbi Jeremy Simons

    We’re marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of Israel with a year-long celebration! Keep an eye out for “Memphis Celebrates Israel at 70” branding at your synagogue, at events around town, and online. In this My Israel Story series, we’re asking Memphians to tell their personal Israel stories. Do you have a…

  • My Israel Story # 39- Sheryl Alexander

    My Israel Story # 39- Sheryl Alexander

    We’re marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of Israel with a year-long celebration! Keep an eye out for “Memphis Celebrates Israel at 70” branding at your synagogue, at events around town, and online. In this My Israel Story series, we’re asking Memphians to tell their personal Israel stories. Do you have a…

  • My Israel Story #38- Sally Baer

    We’re marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of Israel with a year-long celebration! Keep an eye out for “Memphis Celebrates Israel at 70” branding at your synagogue, at events around town, and online. In this My Israel Story series, we’re asking Memphians to tell their personal Israel stories. Do you have a…

  • People-To-People Connections: Memphis Cohort Hosted By Israeli Counterparts in Shoham

    People-To-People Connections: Memphis Cohort Hosted By Israeli Counterparts in Shoham

    Members of our Memphis-Shoham Steering Committee are in Israel right now, meeting with their counterparts from our partner city, Shoham. Bluma Zuckerbrot-Finkelstein, our Director of Community Impact, sent these dispatches to us, along with the photos. You can see the full album of Memphis-Shoham Winter 2018 photos on Facebook.  1…

  • My Israel Story #37- Erin Katz

    My Israel Story #37- Erin Katz

    We’re marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of Israel with a year-long celebration! Keep an eye out for “Memphis Celebrates Israel at 70” branding at your synagogue, at events around town, and online. In this My Israel Story series, we’re asking Memphians to tell their personal Israel stories. Do you have a…

  • Jewish Memphis Celebrates Launch of Rhodes College Hillel with Memphis Jewish Federation

    Jewish Memphis Celebrates Launch of Rhodes College Hillel with Memphis Jewish Federation

    Photos by Ronnie Booze The evening of January 22, a large crowd gathered in stately Palmer Hall on the Rhodes College campus to celebrate an historic milestone for the community. A standing-room crowd gathered for the official launch of Hillel at Rhodes College, representing all corners of Memphis; college students,…