Author: JCPConnect

  • MJCC to Host Left vs. Right: The Battle for Israel’s Soul in January

    MJCC to Host Left vs. Right: The Battle for Israel’s Soul in January

    On January 9th at 7:00 P.M. the Memphis Jewish Community Center, through their Center for Jewish Living and Learning, is hosting a lively conversation, entitled “Left vs. Right: The Battle for Israel’s Soul.” MJCC’s two special guests, Jonathan Tobin, senior online editor and chief political blogger of Commentary Magazine, and J.J. Goldberg, editor-at-large…

  • Crisis in Syria: We Can Help

    Crisis in Syria: We Can Help

    The following message was sent this morning from Jewish Federations of North America President and CEO Jerry Silverman. You can also jump directly to Memphis Jewish Federation’s Aleppo Assistance Fund. Dear Friends, Now entering its sixth year, the conflict in Syria continues to take a drastic toll on the lives…

  • After the Fire, the Gift of Family

    After the Fire, the Gift of Family

    Reprinted from our partners at The Jewish Federations of North America. Your giving to Memphis Jewish Federation’s Annual Community Campaign makes funds available for families in need, in Memphis, Israel and around the world. This story is an example of the impact your giving can have on people in communities…

  • Memphis: A Welcoming Community

    Memphis: A Welcoming Community

    By Gila Golder- Gila is JCP’s community impact associate and a transplant from Baltimore.  In fall 2014, I was living in upstate New York with my husband, Rob, and we were looking for a change. Rob was commuting two hours each way from Rochester to Ithaca, in his final year at Cornell Law…

  • Till Next Time, Take Care of Yourselves and Each Other

    Till Next Time, Take Care of Yourselves and Each Other

    Photos by Ronnie Booze Wednesday, December 7, Jewish Community Partners hosted An Evening with Jerry Springer. The TV talk show host is well-known for the antics of guests on his syndicated show, now in its 26th season. Less famous is his Jewish heritage and a family history sadly familiar to…

  • Jerry Springer Said That? 7 Quotes That Defy His Crazy TV Host Persona

    Jerry Springer Said That? 7 Quotes That Defy His Crazy TV Host Persona

    Tomorrow night we welcome the iconic Jerry Springer to the MJCC stage, for a completely unique Annual Community Campaign donor event, never to be duplicated again. All of us at JCP are pretty excited about hosting him and hearing what he’s got planned for the night, but mostly we’re looking…

  • BBYO: Forming Jewish Identity

    BBYO: Forming Jewish Identity

    -By Sam Canales, pictured above (second from the left) with his immediate family- brother Aaron, mother Stacy, and father Art Canales. Photos by Barry Markowitz Sam Canales read an abridged version of this speech at Jewish Community Partner’s Pillars of the Community event this week, honoring the families, organizations, and…

  • I Didn’t Realize How Connected to Judaism I Was Until I Wasn’t Surrounded By It

    I Didn’t Realize How Connected to Judaism I Was Until I Wasn’t Surrounded By It

    By Justin Waldrip, pictured above (right) with Jacob Klaven, Executive Director of BBYO Memphis (left) and Rachel Mullaney, Hillel of Memphis Vice President Elect (center). Photos by Barry Markowitz Justin Waldrip read an abridged version of this speech at Jewish Community Partner’s Pillars of the Community event this week, honoring the…

  • Upstanders Mural: Extraordinary Memphians

    Upstanders Mural: Extraordinary Memphians

    Photos and some text taken from the Memphis Daily News. Nina Katz, Lucy Tibbs and Rev. Billy Kyles are among the social justice figures in Memphis history honored in a new Downtown mural unveiled on Tuesday, Nov. 22. Katz is one of a few Jewish Mempians honored in the mural.…

  • Captain Ben Schaffer: Eyewitness to Horror

    Captain Ben Schaffer: Eyewitness to Horror

    The letter below was written by Captain (Dr.) Ben Schaffer to his wife Fagie Schaffer while he was in Austria at the end of World War II as one of the first medical staff to enter Mauthausen concentration camp. Captain Schaffer, a dentist serving in the medical corps of the…