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Despair and Depression Hang on the Guarded Gates: JCP Connects Young Poets to Memories of the Holocaust

By Gila GolderDespair and depression hang on the guarded gates, while the beating wind often knocks the people down into the muddied waters of tears.More people should have helped fight for the Jews’ freedom.These impassioned words are taken from poems written by young students in Memphis who…

by JCPConnect- May 16, 2019

Arts & Culture, News

Working Together to Serve the Most Vulnerable

By Laura Linder and Larry SkolnickPictured above: Jewish Family Service staff members Mary Elizabeth Jones, Bill Monroe, Teresa Hughes, Audrey May, Rashki Osina, Miriam Cauley-Crisp, and Dale Steele pose for a photo in the JFS Kosher Food Pantry. With the MJCC managing JFS and Memphis Jewish Federation securing…

by JCPConnect- May 9, 2019

Arts & Culture, People

Sustaining Culture and Community: The Many Faces of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto

This year’s winning entry in Memphis Jewish Federation’s 10th Annual Holocaust Essay contest was written by Nashville resident and Franklin High School 12th Grader Jake Bengelsdorf. He traveled to Memphis to read this essay at Yom HaShoah, which took place Thursday evening.There is one course of action…

by JCPConnect- May 2, 2019

Arts & Culture, People

Warren Kramer: A Survivor’s Story

95-year-old Warren Kramer, pictured above in his youth with his parents and grandparents, spends the colder half of each year in Memphis with his daughter, Adina Samberg, and her family, living in New York City with his other daughter Evelyn Moskowitz for the spring and summer months. Jewish…

by JCPConnect- April 22, 2019

Arts & Culture, News

Holocaust Art & Essay Winners Announced

Memphis Jewish Federation’s 10th Annual Holocaust Artand Essay Competition invited students to respond to the topic SustainingCulture and Community: The Many Faces of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto. Open to all students in Tennessee and the Mid-South, the contestdrew submissions from a diverse group of…

by JCPConnect- April 18, 2019

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