Author: JCPConnect
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Majdanek Death Camp: “We lit a Yizkor candle and recited the El Maleh Rachamim prayer.”
A large group departed from Memphis International Airport Sunday, traveling to Poland to begin their journey from Warsaw to Israel. The JCP/MJCC-sponsored trip will connect the travelers to their Jewish history, taking them to important sites from the recent past. Here, our director of community impact, Bluma Zuckerbrot-Finkelstein, shares her thoughts from…
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The Warsaw Jewish Ghetto 2016: “There are monuments, memorials and plaques, but no buildings.”
A large group departed from Memphis International Airport Sunday, traveling to Poland to begin their journey from Warsaw to Israel. The JCP/MJCC-sponsored trip will connect the travelers to their Jewish history, taking them to important sites from the recent past. Here, our director of community impact, Bluma Zuckerbrot-Finkelstein, shares her thoughts and…
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A Jewish Exodus to a New Nation
Reprinted from the New York Times. Photo above by Mark Kauzlarich for The New York Times. -By Joseph Berger IF such events can be said to have an upside, the Inquisition had one for Spanish and Portuguese Jews: It propelled them to the Americas, where they largely found the tolerance and…
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Memphis Travelers Visit Warsaw Jewish Cemetery During JCP/MJCC-Sponsored Journey
A large group departed from Memphis International Airport Sunday, traveling to Poland to begin their journey from Warsaw to Israel. The JCP/MJCC-sponsored trip will connect the travelers to their Jewish history, taking them to important sites from the recent past. Here, our director of community impact, Bluma Zuckerbrot-Finkelstein, shares her thoughts and…
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Memphis Through a New York Lens
The following is excerpted from an article originally published in The New York Jewish Week. It was written by Associate Editor Jonathan Mark and can be read in full here. If you have friends or family that would thrive in the Memphis community, invite them to the Taste of Jewish Memphis…
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Celebrate the life of Dr. Karin Blinder Gubin on October 30 with Pause for Paws
On Sunday, October 30 at 10:00 a.m. family, friends and “furry friends” will gather in the rose garden at Temple Israel for “Pause for Paws,” a dog walk to honor the late Dr. Karin Gubin. The event, being held almost exactly 2 years to the day of her untimely passing, …
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Show Off Your Sukkah
Have you built your family sukkah this year? Snap a photo and share it with us. We want to see how your family celebrates the holiday, eating or even sleeping outside in the wilds of your Mid-South backyard. We’ll compile a pictorial of all submissions and share it with the community…
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Lunch Break Video: The Rock N Roll Abraham
The Nobel Prize goes to global titans in literature. Harold Pinter. Alice Munro. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Toni Morrison. Bob Dylan? Citing Dylan’s “new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,” the Swedish Academy has named the iconic Jewish singer/songwriter as the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in literature, the…
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Now Accepting Applications to the Kay Usdan Saslawsky Institute for Ethical Leadership
Jewish Community Partners President and CEO Laura Linder announced that applications are now being accepted for participation in a new 7-part leadership seminar created to honor the memory of long-time Jewish communal leader Kay Usdan Saslawsky. The Kay Usdan Saslawsky Institute for Ethical Leadership grew out of a desire to…
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Andy Cohen, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Rep. John Lewis Walk Into a Conference Center…
The General Assembly convenes thousands of volunteer and professional leaders from Federations across North America, along with those in the business of Jewish philanthropy from around the world. Obviously, we’re pretty into Jewish philanthropy around the world. But we’re also pretty into Watch What Happens: Live, mostly because we feel…