Tag: Bornblum Jewish Community School
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Dixon Gallery & Gardens Hosts TuBishvat Community Day
By Sarah VanderWalde On Sunday February 5, more than 500 people walked through the Dixon Gallery & Gardens to celebrate TuBishvat, the Jewish New Year for trees. The sun was shining outside, music was playing inside, and community members of all ages discovered new ways to observe TuBishvat. While planning…
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Jewish Community Partners Pilots School Counselor Collaboration
Once again, Jewish Community Partners (JCP) has served as the central organization to facilitate a collaborative community effort that will benefit Jewish Memphis. In October, Vanessa Akeredolu will begin her post as the first joint school counselor serving students at Bornblum Jewish Community School (Bornblum) and Margolin Hebrew Academy-Feinstone Yeshiva…
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Memphis Jewish Federation Invests in Israel Experiences for Local Youth
By Gila Golder Exciting. Meaningful. Spiritual. Special. Amazing. Outstanding. These are just some of the adjectives student participants used to describe their Spring 2019 Israel experiences, led by Bornblum Jewish Community School and Margolin Hebrew Academy/Feinstone Yeshiva of the South and made possible by significant grants from Memphis Jewish Federation’s…
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Memphis Jewish Federation’s Senior Services Collaborative Finds Innovative Ways to Make an Impact
By Gila Golder Under the leadership of its new chair, Mary Elizabeth Jones, the community-wide Senior Services Collaborative (SSC) convened by Memphis Jewish Federation is making a deep impact, engaging seniors through multiple channels to fulfill its mission of ensuring that seniors in the Memphis Jewish community are cared for,…
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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), a…
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My Israel Story #63- Jaynie Judaken
We’re marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of Israel with a year-long celebration! Keep an eye out for “Memphis Celebrates Israel at 70” branding at your synagogue, at events around town, and online. In this My Israel Story series, we’re asking Memphians to tell their personal Israel stories. Do you have a…
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My Israel Story #53- Aaron Canales
We’re marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of Israel with a year-long celebration! Keep an eye out for “Memphis Celebrates Israel at 70” branding at your synagogue, at events around town, and online. In this My Israel Story series, we’re asking Memphians to tell their personal Israel stories. Do you have a…
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Jewish Community Partners Brings Mayor of Shoham, Israel to Memphis
Gil Livne, mayor of Shoham, Memphis’ partner city in Israel, recently visited Memphis for a packed four days of engagement with the Memphis Jewish community and Memphis at large. Mr. Livne’s trip was a program of Memphis Jewish Federation’s Memphis- Shoham Partnership. He was accompanied by his wife, Anat, and…
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My Israel Story #4: Lizie Ann Fry
We’re marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of Israel with a year-long celebration! Keep an eye out for “Memphis Celebrates Israel at 70” branding at your synagogue, at events around town, and online. In this series, we’re asking Memphians to tell their personal Israel stories. Do you have a story to tell? …
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Benjamin Blumenthal- The Many Cultures of the Land
Each year, Memphis Jewish Federation provides a travel subsidy from the Lemsky Endowment Fund for students making the Bornblum Jewish Community School 8th Grade Trip to Israel. About ten students make the journey each year and return to Memphis with tangible personal connections to Israel. In this series, we’ll publish the…