NASHVILLE HADASSAH HOLDS INSTALLATION OF NEW BOARD

The Nashville Chapter of Hadassah held its annual Installation of Officers and Board on February 28th at the GJCC.The evening was organized by board member Marsha Jaffa, who also provided many of the delicious dessert selections. The Installation ceremony was conducted by Edria Ragosin, a past president of both the chapter and Southern Region. The new board is chaired by Co-Presidents Mindy Drongowski and Beth Wise. To join or learn more about the chapter, please email nashville@hadassah.org

NowGen Hosts Blood Drive in Honor of 2-Year-Old’s Leukemia Diagnosis

Heart of the Matter April 2023

Serving as the Executive Director of Jewish Family Service lets me see over and over how our amazingly special Jewish community comes together so often to support one another, in good times and in bad.

Play with the Power of the Flower

Are you looking for a Mah Jongg game? Come solo or with friends to join Mah Jongg guru Michelle Tishler and the Gordon JCC in partnership with Asian and Pacific Islanders of Middle Tennessee for the Flower Power Mah Jongg Tournament happening May 10 from 11am-3:30PM. The fun-filled tournament day will include noshes, coffee, lunch, prizes, and some surprises.

Radnor Lake Part II-The Eaglets Have Landed

Newcomer Highlight April 23

Welcome to the Observer's monthly Newcomer Column! Every month, we will be featuring one of our Nashville Jewish Newcomers so you can get to know them and their dynamic, engaging stories. One of my favorite parts of my job as the Federation's Newcomer Engagement Associate is connecting with the newcomers and bringing them into Nashville's Jewish community through our Newcomer Shabbat dinners, Newcomer Welcome Receptions, and connecting them with community members and organizations who can help them feel like they belong here. We hope you enjoy reading these and give every newcomer you meet a smile and a warm Nashville welcome!

Nashville Jewish Book Series April Events

Sharon Benus, Gordon JCC Adult and Community Wide Programs Director

Creative Writing Corner

Standing up to, and Educating About, Antisemitism

Recently, Observer editor Barbara Dab and I were interviewed by a local television station to discuss the rise in antisemitic activity locally and around the country. Dedicating an entire hour to this topic is an indication of how serious and far reaching this situation has become, and the concern it has caused not only to us in the Jewish community, but also to our friends and neighbors. When the hour program was over, we had only scratched the surface of what is happening and how we are responding.

Nashville Hadassah Partners with Momentum

Art on the West Side Returns at the Gordon JCC

Art on the West Side Returns April 15-16 at the JCC

Chabad Purim April 23

Jewish Agency for Israel advocates for advancement of pluralism in Israel

To celebrate Israel’s upcoming 75th anniversary, executive members of the Jewish Agency for Israel hosted a webinar Feb. 26 to discuss the agency, the Jewish people, and the commitment to advance pluralism in Israel.

Nashville Holocaust Memorial Offers Tours for Yom HaShoah

Vanderbilt Chabad conquering Antisemitism through Unity

Knoxville couple continues their fight to adopt child in foster care

West End Synagogue Celebrates Israel's 75th Birthday with a Concert

On April 23, 2023, West End Synagogue will celebrate Israel's 75th Birthday with a concert by a multi-generational band - Dor L'Dor - from Knoxville that bills itself as "Not Your Father's Klezmer Band." The band is making its Nashville concert debut.

‘You’ve always got some kind of support’ with BRA

Nonprofit organization provides community for breast cancer survivors who meet in Gordon JCC

AKIVA AND JMS STUDENTS TAKE PART IN NATIONAL BUTTERFLY PROJECT

Students from the Jewish Middle School and Akiva School joined together in mid-March to take part in a local adaptation of The Butterfly Project, a national campaign to fuse arts education with Holocaust study as a means of cultivating empathy and social responsibility in children. The Butterfly Project began in 2006 at the San Diego Jewish Academy as a way of memorializing the 1.5 million children murdered during the Holocaust. Inspired by “I Never Saw Another Butterfly,” a collection of poems, letters, and drawings by children imprisoned at the Terezin Concentration Camp, the program hopes to have contemporary children from around the globe create and install 1.5 million ceramic butterflies in memory of those lost children.

The Temple’s Next D’or and NowGen Group Collaborate on a Networking Night