Tag: Jewish Foundation of Memphis

  • 70 Faces Project Highlights Community’s Compelling Personal Narratives

    70 Faces Project Highlights Community’s Compelling Personal Narratives

    Memphis Jewish Federation’s yearlong celebration of Israel’s 70th birthday will culminate with an exhibit highlighting individuals from the Memphis Jewish community as well as from Shoham, Memphis’s partner city in Israel, announced Laura Linder, President and CEO of Jewish Community Partners. The 70 Faces exhibit will launch on Monday, December…

  • Lauren Luskey Taube: Driven by Community and Family Values

    Lauren Luskey Taube: Driven by Community and Family Values

    What values do you live by? How do you express your values in your work and personal life? What makes a value Jewish? How do these values shape who you are and who you want to become? At the first seminar of the Next Gen Jewish Federation Fellowship last May,…

  • Memphis Jewish Federation Announces Need-Based Israel Travel Subsidies for First Timer Adults

    MJF is thrilled to announce the creation of a new Lemsky Endowment Fund initiative providing travel subsidies for first-time Memphis Jewish adults participating in an organized Israel trip, who have demonstrated financial need. Any Jewish Memphian over age 32 (post Birthright) who joins a Memphis-based Federation, Synagogue or JCC trip…

  • A Closer Connection to Israel: Teen Israel Experience

    A Closer Connection to Israel: Teen Israel Experience

    By David Mashinsky   This past summer, I went to Israel on NCSY TJJ (The Jerusalem Journey). I had already been to Israel multiple times to visit family. I heard about the trip from a friend and thought I would go because my friends are going. I wasn’t expecting to…

  • University of Tennessee Speaks Out Against Anti-Semitism

    University of Tennessee Speaks Out Against Anti-Semitism

    Earlier this month, violent anti-Semitic messages and imagery were twice spray-painted onto the Rock, a beloved centerpiece of the University of Tennessee Knoxville campus. When the UTK administration responded with a mild message of admonishment, Jews across the state of Tennessee were disappointed and confused by the University’s reluctance to…

  • Hate on Campus: A Letter to UT President Randy Boyd and UTK Chancellor Wayne Davis

    Hate on Campus: A Letter to UT President Randy Boyd and UTK Chancellor Wayne Davis

    In the wake of two incidents of anti-Semitic messages scrawled on the iconic “rock” at University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK), the four Jewish Federations of Tennessee (Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga and Knoxville) sent a joint letter to UT President Randy Boyd and UTK Chancellor Wayne Davis, asking the university system to condemn…

  • Layers of Learning: My Teen Israel Experience

    Layers of Learning: My Teen Israel Experience

    By Batya Salomon   In January, I set off on the adventure of a lifetime. I left Memphis and all my friends and family behind to spend a semester in Israel. I was terrified of being gone for four whole months, but I was also sure that I was going…

  • Travel to Europe, Israel Builds Lifelong Friendships, Memories for Memphis Teen

    Travel to Europe, Israel Builds Lifelong Friendships, Memories for Memphis Teen

    By Sarah Unowsky Prior to my BBYO trip this past summer, my knowledge of Israel was rudimentary. I had been able to learn the basics: Israel has a parliamentary form of government, Israel’s capital is Jerusalem, Israel is a world leader in technology, etc.  What no one had ever attempted…

  • Jewish Federations Across North America Mourn, Heal, and Prepare for an Insecure Future

    Jewish Federations Across North America Mourn, Heal, and Prepare for an Insecure Future

    Yesterday in an off-the record briefing held for hundreds of Jewish Federation leaders, Meryl Ainsman, Board of Trustees Chair and Jeff Finkelstein, President and CEO of The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh discussed the stress and trauma of the past week after a gunman opened fire in a local synagogue…

  • Healing After Horror: Outpouring of National and International Support

    Healing After Horror: Outpouring of National and International Support

    Support from Around the World In the wake of the horrific violence at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood, community gatherings like the one in Memphis Sunday evening have taken place across the country. Many, like ours in Memphis, were attended by Jews and non-Jews alike, perhaps…