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Frances Cutler Hahn was three years old when her parents dropped her off at La Maison des Petits Enfants to hide her from the Nazis. Lily Isaacs was born in Germany to two Polish Holocaust survivors in 1947. Both Hahn and Isaacs will present at Middle Tennessee State University’s annual Ho…
When the Gay Street Synagogue building was demolished in 1947, a window went missing. The synagogue — since relocated to Nashville’s West End Avenue — is now known as West End Synagogue. Read the story of how this ‘treasure’ was returned to the synagogue over half a century later.
…Jonathan Gluck treats the children and grandchildren of the very first patients of the local orthodontic practice his father founded in 1983. On Sept. 9, the Gluck family and community members will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Gluck Orthodontics, the only Jewish orthodontists currently …
Teens from Nashville’s Jewish community participated in the Get Connected program in Israel. This year marks the program’s return following the Covid-19 pandemic.
Rachel Duben, a 15-year-old Nashville native, toured Israel with the Jewish Federation’s Get Connected, a program design…
Aveva Dese did not begin sharing her music with the world until after a serious car accident left her home for over a year. Now, she is a celebrated singer-songwriter who sells out VIP concert tickets.
Dese, whose stage name is AvevA, said the car accident was a turning point for her.
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‘We’re glad it’s pride, but it feels different this year’
LilyFish Gomberg backed into her parking space at Vanderbilt University for a few weeks in order to conceal her rainbow flag bumper sticker. Working as a fellow for the Vanderbilt Hillel team, Gomberg feared for her safety am…
Becca Groner is this year’s Sandy Averbuch Young Leadership award winner
Becca Groner moved to Nashville to pursue her dream of working in health care. In the six years since, she started the Nashville Moishe House, served as a leader for LGBTQ+ health at Vanderbilt Medical Center, help…
Erin Coleman, a member of the Jewish Federation of North America National Young Leadership Cabinet, traveled to Latvia and Hungary on a mission trip.
Erin Coleman was the only Nashville resident among 170 young Jewish professionals on a mission trip, but she felt right at home. Coleman,…
When Courtney Bruns and her husband took their son, Jackson, to the clinic for a check-up, the two-year-old proudly showed off the custom-made red Converse on his feet. He told the desk receptionist that he had gotten new shoes. While Jackson may outwardly seem like any other happy toddler…
Sutton Korn, 14, is in the eighth grade. She wrote two poems about the Holocaust as part of a class assignment.
This month, in honor of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, we are featuring two pieces by a young poet. Sutton Korn, 14, is in the eighth grade at Ensworth School. She live…
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.
Yaron Shavit, the deputy chairman of the executive for JAFI, began the c…
Nonprofit organization provides community for breast cancer survivors who meet in Gordon JCC
Members of Breast Cancer Recovery in Action meet at 11 locations, including at the Gordon Jewish Community Center.
After Mary Dono underwent a mastectomy and lumpectomy, she felt she had nowhere …
‘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
Social justice may be the theme for the Jewish Federation of Greater Nashville’s annual Passover Seder on M…
Stan Kweller is the Third Jewish Judge Appointed to the 20th Judicial District Circuit Court
Tennessee governor Bill Lee appointed Stan Kweller as circuit court judge for the 20th Judicial District Jan. 11, making him the second Jewish person ever appointed to the 20th judicial district cir…
Free speech advocate to bring ‘unconventional approach’ to discussion of free speech: Ken Paulson will speak at the Gordon JCC on Jan. 19
Only one in 50 Americans can name all five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, according to the Freedom For…
