Category: News From the Memphis Jewish Federation
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How is Genocide Justified?
Memphis Jewish Federation’s 8th Annual Holocaust Art and Essay Competition drew an unprecedented 87 essay entries and 85 art entries from students in Tennessee and the Mid-South. This year’s theme was Degradation and Dehumanization: The Nazi Assault on Human Dignity. The contest was sponsored by the Memphis Commissioners of the…
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Memphis Lions of Judah Celebrate Judaism in New York
Last week, a pride of Memphis Lions of Judah traveled to New York City at their own expense, on a mission of sisterhood and Jewish discovery. The trip brought Memphis Lions from different walks of life together in the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple, where they were able…
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CentreStage Theatre’s Judgment at Nuremberg Examines Historic, Current Issues
CentreStage Theatre presents one of the classic courtroom dramas: Judgment at Nuremberg, which examines responsibility and justice in post-war Germany. Listen to cast members Skip Howard and Evan Mann discuss their staging of the play on WKNO’s Checking on the Arts. CentreStage Theatre, in partnership with Facing History and Ourselves, presents one…
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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…
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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…
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Watch: Celebrate Sunny Memphis with Purim Video from Memphis Recruitment Committee
The latest video from our friends on the Memphis Recruitment Committee, the team behind 100newfamilies.com, is a fun slice-of-life from the heart of Jewish Memphis. You might have seen it making the rounds on social media, where it grabbed something like 4,000 views in the first 24 hours of its release.…
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Amal Elsana Alh’jooj: For the Answers You Must Go and Search
Earlier this year, a natural-born activist visited the Memphis Jewish community and brought her amazing stories. Amal Elsana Alh’jooj journeyed to Memphis as a lecturer for Beth Sholom’s Israel: Behind the Conflict speaker series, a program funded in part by a Lemsky Endowment Fund grant through Memphis Jewish Federation, with additional…
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The Impact of Better Together’s Names, Not Numbers
The 55th Annual Yom HaShoah Community Observance will feature a film produced by students at the Margolin Hebrew Academy/Feinstone Yeshiva of the South (MHA/FYOS), who have spent this year interviewing local Holocaust survivors. The students’ work is a part of Better Together’s Names, Not Numbers program, an interactive, multi-media Holocaust…
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The Morris and Mollye Fogelman International Jewish Film Festival
Because our offices are tucked inside the MJCC, it’s been impossible to miss the buzz as they prepared for the Morris and Mollye Fogelman International Jewish Film Festival, which kicks off this Thursday, February 16, with a screening of Remember, 7:30 P.M. at the Malco Paradiso. With nine screenings over eleven…
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Rhodes College Presents Jerry Brotton and James Shapiro: Jews and Muslims in Shakespeare’s World
On Rhodes College campus on February 22 at 6:00 P.M., renowned Renaissance scholars Jerry Brotton and James Shapiro will discuss Jews and Muslims in Tudor England. Two preeminent cultural historians, Shapiro and Brotton will engage in a far-ranging dialogue about how Judaism and Islam were – and remain – part…
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