Tag: Memphis Jewish history
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Archive: Shabbat Shalom from Laura Linder and Guests
Jewish Community Partners President and CEO Laura Linder, or a special guest writer, sits down most Friday mornings to write a personal and timely letter to our beloved Memphis Jewish community. June 11- Longing for an Ordinary Day (by Bluma Zuckerbrot-Finkelstein) May 14- We Stand with Israel, Now and Forever…
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Memphis’ Pinch District: The Jewish/Irish Melting Pot
ABOVE: Residents of Memphis’s historic Pinch neighborhood, early 1900s. Jewish business men with an Irish cop. The immigrant story in many American cities almost always prominently features two groups of people- the Irish and the Jews. Both came for the promise of a new start in America, which is shared among…