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RJMP March 2023

Children at the Revere Jewish Montessori Preschool celebrated Tu B'Shvat by creating an indoor art garden, using the seven elements of art, Line, Shape, Space, Value, Form, Texture, and Color.


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Nashville Jewish Book Series Hosts Free Events

Join the Nashville Jewish Book Series for two FREE virtual events this March. On Thursday, March 2 at 7pm Author Stephen Mills will join us to talk about his powerful memoir of childhood sexual abuse and the experienced trauma, Chosen. Stephen will be joined in conversation with the Temple’s Rabbi Shana Goldstein Mackler and Lisa Milam, a forensic social worker at Our Kids. The conversation will focus on Stephen’s individual experiences, in addition to how we as a community and society can begin to have the difficult conversations surrounding sexual abuse.




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Chabad of Nashville invites all to journey to Shabbat in the Heights

Imagine that the Shtetl of Europe has been frozen in time, transported to New York, and then unfrozen. Imagine walking down the main street and seeing the Judaica shops, hearing the sounds of yeshiva students studying the Talmud, smelling the aromas of the freshly baked Challah wafting from the local kosher bakeries, while seeing signs in Hebrew and Yiddish and shuls at every corner, while the skyscrapers of Manhattan rise in the distance.


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There’s no race in Judaism

‘There’s no race in Judaism’: Jews Reflect on Diversity within Community Jewish Community Relations Committee hosts annual Passover seder March 30 with theme of social justice



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Avi Poster

Avi Poster died on January 26. His funeral was attended by hundreds of people from across Nashville whose lives he touched. He is survived by the love of his life, his wife, Joie.