Category: Arts & Culture
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1st Place Essay from 14th Annual Holocaust Art and Essay Contest
By: Nadav Lowell, 11th grade, Cooper Yeshiva High School for Boys According to the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1,350,000 Jewish children were killed in the Holocaust, leaving only 150,000 surviving. Those that survived did not escape unscathed; many witnessed horrific deaths and horrible crimes. Children were forced to grow…
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Memphis Jewish Federation Launches Israel at 75 Programming Calendar
Familiarizing Jewish Memphians to the land, people, and culture of Israel is a major priority for Memphis Jewish Federation, and anniversaries are a great opportunity to do it in a big way. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, and to mark this…
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Memphis Jewish Federation Launches 14th Annual Holocaust Art and Essay Competition
Memphis Jewish Federation has announced its fourteenth annual Holocaust Art and Essay Competition for Mid-South and Tennessee students in grades 6-12. This year’s contest theme is Courage and Hope: The Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Child. Middle school students in grades 6-8 are invited to submit artwork, and high…
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Jewish Pride Art Workshop for Teens a ‘First Step’ in Combating Antisemitism
By Rebecca (Brown) Eisenstadter, Director of Memphis NCSY/JSU Chapter In the face of rising global antisemitism, local Jewish teens will have the opportunity to celebrate their Judaism at a Jewish pride art workshop being offered by Memphis Israel Scholars on Sunday, December 4, 2022. The program, to be held at…
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Maintaining Their Memory: A Remembrance of the Holocaust – Julia Zabek’s 1st Place Essay in MJF’s 13th Annual Holocaust Essay Contest
By: Julia Zabek, 11th grade, Knoxville Catholic High School. Internationally, January 27th is dedicated as a day of Holocaust remembrance to keep alive the memory of millions of lives taken heinously in this genocide. But is a singular day enough to encapsulate the grief and tragedy that plagued those directly…
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A Prayer for Ukraine this Passover
By Laura Linder I came across a prayer, used by Federation in the 1980s when we were fighting for the freedom of our Jewish family in the Former Soviet Union. With just a few word changes, this prayer again is so relevant for our times. I hope these words will…
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Memphis Jewish Federation Launches 13th Annual Holocaust Art and Essay Competition
With her piece entitled Life in a Jar, Colonial Middle School student Whitney Ousley took the first place ribbon in Art in Memphis Jewish Federation’s 2021 Holocaust Art & Essay Competition. Submissions for this year’s contest, themed Safeguarding the Sacred: Perspectives on Holocaust Memory, must be submitted by close of…
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The Importance of Allies and Questions for Tragedy
By Chana Rovner10th Grade, Goldie Margolin School for GirlsFirst Place, Memphis Jewish Federation’s 12th Annual Holocaust Essay Contest During the Second World War, a great tragedy happened to us and others like us in Nazi Germany. The Nazis put people they thought were lesser in concentration camps in an attempt to…
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Memphis-Made Holocaust Documentary Screened for Teens at Baton Rouge Jewish Film Festival
Lives Restarted, the award-winning documentary film chronicling the story of Holocaust survivors who made their home and began rebuilding their lives in Memphis, was shown at this year’s Baton Rouge Jewish Film Festival (BRJFF), which is a program of the Jewish Federation of Greater Baton Rouge. Commissioned by Jewish Community…
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Jewish Community Partners Now Accepting Grant Applications for 2020-2021
Photo above– Jason Caplan, to the left with the guitar, leads a group of seniors at the MJCC through an exercise with his unique program, the Universal Language Room. Funded in part by a Memphis Jewish Federation Fedovation Impact Grant, Universal Language Room guides participants to exchange ideas and communicate…