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Persona Non Grata: Tennessee Film Premiere Tells Untold Holocaust Story

During the chaos of the Second World War, a Japanese diplomat working in Lithuania concocted a desperate plan to save as many Jews as he could, ultimately securing the safety of some 6,000 Jewish refugees. A powerful film depicting this important but lesser-known story will have its Tennessee…

by JCPConnect- September 20, 2018

Arts & Culture, News, People

Through Jewish Community Partners, Jewish Memphis Delivers Smiles to the Most Vulnerable Memphians

When the call was sent to all corners of the Mid-South that Metropolitan Interfaith Association (MIFA) was celebrating a milestone with a campaign to bring different parts of Memphis together to do good on a massive scale, Jewish Memphis went above and beyond to deliver.Jewish Community Partners (JCP…

by JCPConnect- September 14, 2018

Arts & Culture, People

Local Jewish Blues Musician to Headline Federation’s Memphis-Shoham Partnership Projects

Laura Linder, President/CEO of Jewish Community Partners, announced this week an exciting array of projects for 2018-2019 as part of the Memphis Jewish community’s partnership with the city of Shoham, Israel. JCP launched the partnership in 2016 through the Partnership2Gether Peoplehood Platform (P2G), a program of JAFI…

by JCPConnect- August 28, 2018

Arts & Culture

Israeli Scouts Build Meaningful Relationships with Memphians

Two Scouts. Twelve weeks. Eleven host families. Forty-five days of camp. One incredible summer to add to the decades-long tradition of Israeli Scouts in Memphis.Tzuf Bitton and Adam Levy, both 17, had each been a part of the Israel Scout (Tzofim) youth movement in Israel since 4th…

by JCPConnect- August 10, 2018

Arts & Culture, People

Jewish Foundation of Memphis Facilitates Grant to Israel Scouts in Memory of Art Wolff, z”l

By Sarah VanderWaldeThose who leave legacies live on in the hearts of the people they touch. Their achievements become immortal, spreading from generation to generation. Art Wolff, of blessed memory, was an avid supporter of Tzofim, a national Zionist youth movement in Israel, known locally in Memphis as the…

by JCPConnect- July 26, 2018

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