Budget
$110,000.00
Description
The Observer, the Nashville Jewish community's newspaper is published by the Jewish Federation of Nashville monthly. You'll find news of our local congregations and Jewish organizations, interviews with interesting people as well as lifecycle events. But it doesn't stop there. There is news of the national and international Jewish communities and, of course, about Israel. Look for special Jewish holiday issues and the annual Simchas/Celebrations, Health & Beauty and Dining Out special sections. Look for our annual Guide to Jewish Nashville in March, a comprehensive listing, including contact information, of all the congregations and Jewish organizations in Middle Tennessee. It serves as a handy reference all year long.
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Budget
$47,500.00
Description
The Jewish Federation distributes grants to congregations for family, adult and religious school programs that are open to the entire Jewish community. Scholarships are available for children who want to attend Jewish summer camps and to teens who participate in programs in Israel. Our children are the ultimate beneficiaries when stipends are given to religious schools and Akiva Day School teachers to attend workshops to expand their knowledge and teaching skills.
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None

Budget
$41,415.00
Description
Addresses the issues in the local, national and world communities that affect us as Jews. We are the pro-active voice of the Jewish community. CRC's agenda includes Anti-Semitism, Israel and the Middle East, religion in the schools, community coalitions, justice, legislation, media relations. We contact members of our Jewish community, urging them to let their legislators, public officials and/or the media know how we stand on a variety of impending issues. And we rely on the community to keep us informed of problems that may arise in their daily lives.
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Budget
$11,250.00
Description
The Annette Levy Ratkin Jewish Community Archives collects the records of the families, businesses, and institutions of the Nashville Jewish community, which began in1851. Housed in the Library of the GJCC, the Archives has the records of such organizations as the Nashville Section of the National Council of Jewish Women, Hadassah, B'nai B'rith, and the Jewish Community Council, which became the Jewish Federation. Microfilms and hard copies of The Observer, which began publication in 1934, and its predecessor The Y.M.H.A. News, which was first published in 1915, are in the Archives. An oral history audiotape collection, sponsored by NCJW, documents the memories of older adults who grew up in Nashville and has been transcribed. An oral history collection, sponsored by the Jewish Federation, records on DVD the experiences of Holocaust refugees, survivors, and liberators. Tombstones dated prior to 1900 from The Temple Cemetery, which became a part of the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, have been photographed, documenting their inscriptions. All documents and photographs are stored in acid-free containers and are available under supervision of the archivist. Nashville has joined with Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Memphis, under the direction of the Tennessee State Museum, to prepare an exhibit on the history of the Jews of Tennessee for the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America (formerly known as UJC), held in Nashville in 2007. The exhibit then traveled to other museums throughout Tennessee and the South. "A Caring Community, the History of the Jews of Nashville," produced by the Archives, traces the development of the Nashville Jewish community from 1851 to the present. What happens today will be history tomorrow, and the Archives seeks to preserve the records of all Jewish people from Nashville. Please donate your family's papers , so that they will become part of history.
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None

Budget
$85,000.00
Description
The Jewish Federation has a 'sister city' relationship with the Hadera-Eiron region of Israel located midway between the cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa on Israel's coastline. Called Partnership2Gether, the relationship is based on various exchange visit of teachers, teens, medical professionals, artists and business leaders. The goal is to provide a stronger connection between Jewish Nashville and Israel. Now in the Partnership's 13th year, the Federation supports a variety programs in the partnership including home hospitality visits for Jewish teens during the summer, a pediatric clown at the Hillel-Yaffe Hospital in Hadera, special programming for at-risk youth at the Ben Yakir Village, tutoring and educational enrichment programs for Israelis of Ethiopian descent, and a soccer program for teenagers that focuses on instilling positive values and promotes tolerance and intergroup and interreligious understanding.
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None