Tag: Memphis to Jerusalem

  • Memphis Jewish Federation to Host Shoham Mother of Fallen Soldier

    Memphis Jewish Federation to Host Shoham Mother of Fallen Soldier

    Memphis Jewish Federation announced that the Memphis-Shoham Partnership is bringing to Memphis Zehava Shneor, mother of fallen Shoham Israeli soldier Sarit Shneor. While in Memphis, Zehava will interact with a broad swath of the Memphis Jewish community, including Beth Sholom teens, Bornblum middle school students, Margolin Hebrew Academy middle school…

  • Hannah Siegler: My Teen Israel Experience

    Hannah Siegler: My Teen Israel Experience

    Hannah Siegler, the daughter of Stacy and Jerry Siegler, is an 11th grade student at Lausanne Collegiate School. Memphis Jewish Federation’s Lemsky Endowment Fund provided her with a Teen Israel Experience grant to help offset the costs of her Summer 2019 NFTY program in Israel. All rising juniors and seniors…

  • Jewish Foundation of Memphis Kicks Off Year-Long 25th Anniversary Celebration with Latkes & Vodka

    Jewish Foundation of Memphis Kicks Off Year-Long 25th Anniversary Celebration with Latkes & Vodka

    Twenty-five years ago, the Memphis Jewish community came together to create an organization that would work to ensure that our children and grandchildren would benefit from a thriving Jewish community. This invaluable resource evolved quickly into Jewish Memphis’s trusted partner in charitable giving, the Jewish Foundation of Memphis. The Jewish…

  • Sophie Skolnick: My Teen Israel Experience

    Sophie Skolnick: My Teen Israel Experience

    My experience in Israel was amazing and had a major impact on my life. The trip was filled with amazing teens and staff who made me feel excited about Israel and Judaism. My time in Israel would not have been nearly the same without all of these wonderful people I…

  • Alex Rochkind: My Teen Israel Experience

    Alex Rochkind: My Teen Israel Experience

    Alex Rochkind, the daughter of Leslie and Bill Rochkind, is an 11th grade student at Lausanne Collegiate School. Memphis Jewish Federation’s Lemsky Endowment Fund provided her with a Teen Israel Experience grant to help offset the costs of her Summer 2019 BBYO program in Israel. All rising juniors and seniors…

  • Dispatch from Israel: A Jew by Choice

    Dispatch from Israel: A Jew by Choice

    By Melissa Faber Melissa is currently in Israel with a group of women coordinated through Memphis Jewish Federation. The JWRP MOMentum Trip to Israel is designed to empower women to change the world through Jewish values that transform themselves, their families, and our community. This year, the cohort from Memphis…

  • Jason Schubert: My Teen Israel Experience

    Jason Schubert: My Teen Israel Experience

    Spending the summer on NCSY JOLT Israel was truly life-changing for me. There were so many incredible aspects of this once in a lifetime trip to Israel. This was not my first trip to Israel, but it was by far the best way to experience Israel! NCSY and the Federation’s…

  • My Israel Story- Rebecca Sabin

    My Israel Story- Rebecca Sabin

    This past summer, I was fortunate to be able to spend 10 weeks in Israel. One of the highlights of my trip was the 6 days I spent in Shoham, Memphis’s sister city. I stayed with two host families, and I helped at the Gan (preschool), assisting in a classroom…

  • Newly Elected Memphis Jewish Federation Chair Cindy Finestone is Passionate About Philanthropy

    Newly Elected Memphis Jewish Federation Chair Cindy Finestone is Passionate About Philanthropy

    Cindy Finestone isn’t your typical Memphis Jewish lay leader, donor, or Federation chair. Neither she nor her husband, Mark, grew up in Memphis, and neither of them have family here. So how did Cindy and Mark become so involved that she now serves as chair of Memphis Jewish Federation? “My…

  • Faces of Memphis and Shoham: Dorothy Goldwin

    Faces of Memphis and Shoham: Dorothy Goldwin

    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.…