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Rabbi Joshua Kullock of West End Synagogue welcomes attendees to the Affordable Housing Forum. Photo credit: Rick Malkin
Affordable Housing is Becoming Scarce in Nashville: What does this mean for the Jewish Community?
Nashville’s popularity as an “it” city continues to rise, and c…
Belmont University, which has a long history of employing exclusively Christian professors, is making what it says is the next logical step in furthering relations with the Jewish community. The university recently announced plans to hire Jewish faculty in its professional schools, which inc…
Thirty Years After Nashville Bar Mitzvah Artur Livshyts is Working to Rebuild the Jewish Community in Belarus
Artur Livshyts with Rabbi Zalman Posner z”l
It was thirty years ago that an overwhelmed and exhausted 12-year-old Artur Livshyts arrived in Nashville from Minsk, Belarus, in the …
Rabbi Tamar Manasseh will be a visiting scholar in Nashville January 20-22.
On the surface, Tamar Manasseh does not fit the Euro-centric image of a Jew, much less a rabbi. She is Black, born and bred on Chicago’s South Side. Raised in a Conservative Jewish home, educated in Jewish Day S…
Help West End Synagogue uncover the origin of the Star of David sculpture.
Tucked away in a cluttered, dingy, dusty storage closet at West End Synagogue, stood a solid chunk of gray granite, carved into the shape of a Star of David. According to WES Executive Director, Jim Holzer, it’s …
Famed Nazi Hunter, Dr. Ephraim Zuroff, visited Nashville to discuss his experiences.
It is now more than seven decades since the Holocaust, the liberation of the concentration camps, and the fall of the Nazi regime. But it may surprise some to learn there are still Nazi war criminals aliv…
This month, we are featuring Part 1 of Dr. Frank Boehm’s essay on love. For Frank, love is…well, it’s everything. To gain insights into how and why people fall in love and, more importantly, stay in love, he interviewed several couples. Each couple has its own unique story and perspect…
Israeli Consul General for the Southeast Region, Anat Sultan-Dadon (center), visits the Tennessee Holocaust Memorial. Pictured l to r: Ken Gluck, Marsha Raimi, Sultan-Dadon, Israeli Consulate Director of Government and Political Affairs Karen Isenberg Jones, Alyssa Trachtman
Late last mon…
Early last month, Vanderbilt University made news when Vanderbilt Football’s defensive backs coach, Dan Jackson, posted to his Facebook page comments defending Ye’s, formerly known as Kanye West, antisemitic comments on Twitter. Jackson’s post was to his personal Facebook page but was …
Nearly 40 years ago the internet was born and with it, the beginnings of online shopping, streaming services, social media, and much more that has come to define and document modern human interactions. Social media continues to proliferate daily life with a constant stream of information and…
Last month, we read reflections from the participants of The Jewish Federation and Jewish Foundation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee’s recent mission to Poland to provide humanitarian relief for Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion. We also read about efforts, in Warsaw, by the Jewish…
A local group of clergy and community members, growing alarmed by reports of increased gun violence, is taking action and is calling on the greater Nashville community to join the effort. Tennessee Loves Children (TLC), a new initiative focused on addressing the needs of children and other c…
Melissa Sostrin, owner of Sweets Melissa and Sons, is one of two women-owned challah baking companies in Nashville.
Baking challah is a time-consuming endeavor. It takes planning, organization, and plain old elbow grease to create the mouth-watering, fragrant loaf that graces Shabbat and …
Delegates to Poland pictured l. to r. Observer editor Barbara Dab, Congregation Micah Rabbi Flip Rice, Federation Board Member Hayley Levy, Ned Jacobson, Denise Alper, Federation Past President Carol Hyatt, Larry Hyatt
In late August, The Jewish Federation and Jewish Foundation of Nashville…
Three Minutes: A Lengthening Explores Precious Moments Before the Holocaust
Bianca Stitger, the film’s Director, answers questions after the film.
Glen Kurtz, who found his grandfather’s Kodak film wrote the award-winning memoir,
“Three …
