Tag: Jews in Memphis

  • Anthony Morrison Elected to Chair Jewish Foundation of Memphis

    Anthony Morrison Elected to Chair Jewish Foundation of Memphis

    Photo: At Our Annual Meeting in June, Anthony Morrison, left, was elected Chair of Jewish Foundation of Memphis. For the next two years, he will work closely with newly elected Chair of Memphis Jewish Federation Cindy Finestone and Chair of Jewish Community Partners Ken Steinberg. Photo by Rena Knopf Long-time…

  • Ken Steinberg Elected 3rd Chair of Jewish Community Partners

    Ken Steinberg Elected 3rd Chair of Jewish Community Partners

    Long-time Jewish communal leader Ken Steinberg was elected the 3rd chair of Jewish Community Partners at its annual meeting, Tuesday, June 18.  Steinberg, a life-long Memphian, served a two-year term as Chair of Memphis Jewish Federation and a one-year term as Chair of Jewish Foundation of Memphis prior to his…

  • Charles Jalenak Passes Jewish Foundation of Memphis Torch to New Leader

    Charles Jalenak Passes Jewish Foundation of Memphis Torch to New Leader

    By Susan Nieman On June 18, 2019, at the joint annual meeting of Jewish Community Partners (JCP), Memphis Jewish Federation (MJF), and Jewish Foundation of Memphis (JFOM), Charles Jalenak passed the torch as Foundation Chair after serving in the role for two years. Mr. Jalenak has spent a lifetime connected…

  • Faces of Memphis and Shoham: Dessie Sewell

    Faces of Memphis and Shoham: Dessie Sewell

    Part of Memphis Jewish Federation’s ongoing efforts to connect Memphis and Israel, the 70 Faces of Memphis and Shoham project was designed to form real connections between the people of Jewish Memphis and the people of Shoham, Israel, Memphis’s partner city through the Jewish Agency for Israel’s Partnership 2Gether program.…

  • Faces of Memphis and Shoham: David Ross

    Faces of Memphis and Shoham: David Ross

    Part of Memphis Jewish Federation’s ongoing efforts to connect Memphis and Israel, the 70 Faces of Memphis and Shoham project was designed to form real connections between the people of Jewish Memphis and the people of Shoham, Israel, Memphis’s partner city through the Jewish Agency for Israel’s Partnership 2Gether program.…

  • Outgoing Jewish Community Partners Board Chair Michael Greenberg Helped Strengthen Security, Education, and Social Programs

    Outgoing Jewish Community Partners Board Chair Michael Greenberg Helped Strengthen Security, Education, and Social Programs

    Tuesday, June 18, 2019, at the joint annual meeting of Jewish Community Partners (JCP), Memphis Jewish Federation (MJF) and Jewish Foundation of Memphis (JFOM), Michael Greenberg’s tenure as Chair of the Executive Board of JCP will come to an end after serving in the role for two years. “I feel…

  • Memphian One of Nine Yeshiva University Graduates Named Valedictorians for Outstanding Academic Achievements

    Memphian One of Nine Yeshiva University Graduates Named Valedictorians for Outstanding Academic Achievements

    Editor’s note: When this press release came to us, it was because Yeshiva University wanted Jewish Memphis to know that a Memphian was named as one of nine valedictorians in this year’s graduating class. This brought us great joy, as this particular valedictorian-Memphian is the son of our colleague Bluma…

  • Memphis Jewish Federation Invests in Israel Experiences for Local Youth

    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…

  • Charles Jalenak Passes Jewish Foundation of Memphis Torch to New Leader

    Charles Jalenak Passes Jewish Foundation of Memphis Torch to New Leader

    By Susan Nieman Above: L.R. Jalenak, Jr. and son Charles Jalenak, two generations of Jewish Foundation of Memphis Chairs. On June 18, 2019, at the joint annual meeting of Jewish Community Partners (JCP), Memphis Jewish Federation (MJF) and Jewish Foundation of Memphis (JFOM), Charles Jalenak will pass the torch as…

  • Memphis Jewish Community Welcomes Teen Scouts from Israel

    Memphis Jewish Community Welcomes Teen Scouts from Israel

    By Gila Golder School’s out, temperatures are climbing, grills are popping up in backyards— and two vivacious and energetic Israeli teens are in town, engaging with the community and serving as informal goodwill ambassadors for Israel. Must be summer in Memphis! Reut Shnitzer, 17 (on the left above), and Ella…