Tag: Yom HaShoah
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1st Place Essay from 14th Annual Holocaust Art and Essay Contest
By: Nadav Lowell, 11th grade, Cooper Yeshiva High School for Boys According to the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1,350,000 Jewish children were killed in the Holocaust, leaving only 150,000 surviving. Those that survived did not escape unscathed; many witnessed horrific deaths and horrible crimes. Children were forced to grow…
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Memphis Jewish Federation Names Chairs and Featured Speaker for the 61st Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration
Pictured Below: Dorothy Goldwin (L) Michelle Goldwin Kaufman (R) Memphis Jewish Federation has announced that the mother-daughter team of Dorothy Goldwin and Michelle Goldwin Kaufman will chair its 61st Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration, taking place this year on Monday, April 17 at 6:30 P.M. in the Belz Social Hall of…
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Federation’s Yom HaShoah Commemoration and Facing History Help CBHS Teens Understand Judaism, Antisemitism
CBHS seniors in Dr. Keith Wood’s Facing History and Ourselves class virtually attended Memphis Jewish Federation’s 60th Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration in April. Wood takes pride in the a-ha moments the curriculum delivers to his almost exclusively non-Jewish students, guiding them to reexamine their relationships with Jewish friends and neighbors…
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Maintaining Their Memory: A Remembrance of the Holocaust – Julia Zabek’s 1st Place Essay in MJF’s 13th Annual Holocaust Essay Contest
By: Julia Zabek, 11th grade, Knoxville Catholic High School. Internationally, January 27th is dedicated as a day of Holocaust remembrance to keep alive the memory of millions of lives taken heinously in this genocide. But is a singular day enough to encapsulate the grief and tragedy that plagued those directly…
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Rabbi Abe Schacter-Gampel Taps Memories of His Grandfather for Federation’s Yom HaShoah Commemoration
On Thursday, April 28, 2022, at 6:30 P.M., Memphis Jewish Federation’s 60th annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration will feature Elisha Wiesel, son of Nobel Laureate, Holocaust survivor, and memoirist Elie Wiesel, “in conversation” with Rabbi Abe Schacter-Gampel of Memphis Jewish Home & Rehab (MJHR). Advance registration for in-person or virtual attendance…
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Holocaust Art & Essay Winners Announced
Memphis Jewish Federation’s 10th Annual Holocaust Art and Essay Competition invited students to respond to the topic Sustaining Culture and Community: The Many Faces of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto. Open to all students in Tennessee and the Mid-South, the contest drew submissions from a diverse group of students from…
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Yom HaShoah 2017- Monday April 24 in the Belz Social Hall, MJCC
(Photos from Yom HaShoah 2016, Steve Conroy- photographer) Laura Linder, President and CEO of Jewish Community Partners (JCP), announced this week that the Memphis Jewish community is invited to attend JCP’s 55th annual Yom HaShoah observance, featuring Better Together’s Names, Not Numbers program. The event will honor Holocaust survivors living…