News from Middle Tennessee's Jewish Community |
Thursday, July 3, 2025
The Jewish Federation and Jewish Foundation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee announces a second delegation of community members will make a journey to Poland. The group will leave on August 24th and, once again in partnership with the Warsaw and Krakow Jewish Community Centers, provide continuing humanitarian support and relief for Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion. The group will return on August 29th.
This year, three local teens participated in The Jewish Agency for Israel’s Southeastern Consortium Partnership2Gether trip to Israel. This is the first time the annual trip included teens from Nashville. Pictured below are Noah Spigel, Benjamin Yazdian, and Jonah Hirt. Next month, we’ll hear from them directly as they share their trip of a lifetime.
On June 24, 2022, the National Council for Jewish Women (NCJW) issued the following statement:
The United States Supreme Court made the unprecedented move in late June to take away the federal right to abortion granted 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade. In its majority opinion in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Samuel Alito said, “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled, and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives…The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision.” The functional result of the Dobbs decision will be to place the legislation of abortion squarely in the hands of the states. And while some states will continue to keep abortion legal, others, including Tennessee, have trigger laws that will quickly make abortion illegal in any case.
Three years ago, I left everything I knew and went on a plane to Nashville. Never imagined that I would stay here for 3 incredible years, meet the most amazing people, and have the most meaningful time of my life!
The Work of Lauren Karp, Kelley Schmitt Rice, and Camp Davis Art.
We raise money, we give money away. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard that phrase this past year, I’m not sure we’d need an annual campaign!
