NowGen is so excited to present our new co-chairs for this year! These three volunteer leaders are stepping up to take charge of NowGen for the coming year and have some great programs coming up for the rest of the year and through 2025. If your organization is interested in partnering with NowGen ...
Our Partnership is focused on building real, three-dimensional relationships between American, Israeli, and Czech Jews, so when the unthinkable happens and many people in our Partnership region lose loved ones on October 7, Partnership hops into action. As we approached a year since the attacks on October ...
From July 10-21, the Nashville Jewish community welcomed seven Israeli teens and two adult chaperones to our community as part of our Hadera-Eiron Partnership program. While the teens were in Nashville, they stayed with host families, led activities for the campers at Camp Davis, and got to know some ...
One of the more famous quotations from Pirkei Avot (Wisdom of our Ancestors) says אם אין קמח, אין תורה (if there is no flour, there is no Torah). Commentaries on this text usually talk about the balance between secular and sacred professions, but I understand this text more broadly to ...
This year, as in past years, the Jewish Federation of Greater Nashville is coordinating our community-wide efforts at Nashville and Franklin Pride to show our support for LGBTQ+ people in Nashville in partnership with Jewish Family Service. Like everything else since October 7, this will not be ...
The Hadera-Eiron Israel Partnership2Gether (P2G) Joint Steering Committee held its annual meeting on March 10-13 in Chattanooga. This meeting is when our Israel Partnership Consortium determines the budget for the upcoming year and evaluates which programs and initiatives we will pursue over the course ...
Our Israel Partnership program has been active and engaged through the last couple of weeks of war in Israel. Our partner region in Hadera-Eiron is hosting 800 Israelis from communities in southern Israel who have been displaced by Hamas's violent attacks and by the Israel Defense Forces' operations ...
In May 2014, I participated in the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School's Irene and Daniel Simpkins Senior Capstone Israel trip and spent three weeks volunteering at the Neve Michael Children’s Village in Pardes Hanna. I was having a conversation with the village’s librarian, and we talked about what ...
Part of my job at the Jewish Federation of Greater Nashville is to coordinate the Jewish community’s efforts at Pride festivals in Nashville and Middle Tennessee. In the coming year, my goal is to expand those efforts to focus on year-round activities and initiatives beyond Pride to support LGBTQ+ ...