® October 2017 www.jewishscenemagazine.com Memphis Jewish Federation Annual Campaign Guide to Jewish Memphis • Senior Services 11th Anniversary Issue Help make the world better Reach Chaier in 2018 The need is greater than ever. Let’s come together to ensure that we: Senior Meals Program • Feed the hungry • Comfort the sick • Care for the vulnerable • Educate our youth • Build future leaders • Support Israel • Ensure our Jewish future Building Future Leaders Your gift matters. All new and increased donations will be matched by the Plough Foundation. MAKE YOUR GIFT TODAY! Pledges are payable through Dec. 31, 2018 Jewish Family Service Our Jewish Future 6560 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, TN, 38138 | 901.767.7100 | www.jcpmemphis.org KeepingKeeping Our our Jewish Jewish Communitycommunity CARED Cared for, For, CONNECTED Connected and and ENGAGED. Engaged. Contents ® Publisher/Editor 03 From the Editor Susan C. Nieman Chai There 20 Art Director Dustin Green 04 Contributors Art Assistant 06 Health, Body & Soul Laura Ehrhardt Living Beyond Breast Cancer Rebecca Lynn Miller The organization’s Sharing Wisdom, Web and Social Media Director Sharing Strength conference, in Rebecca Lynn Miller Memphis this October, offers the 20 - 22 Up Close with Memphis latest information on treatments and Photography Contributors managing the disease’s effects while Jewish Federation Annual Ronnie Booze building a community of support. Campaign Co-Chairs Anthony Morrison, Cindy Trey Clark Breezy Lucia 7 - 17 Guide to Jewish Memphis Finestone and Eileen Synagogues, Education, Posner Editorial Assistants Organizations and Eateries Ready, able and eager to Reach Bettye Berlin Chaier to support Memphis, Israel Emily Bernhardt and 70 countries around the Rae Jean Lichterman 10 Feature world. Memphis, A CommUNITY of Kindness Bette Shornick Ahavat Achim (Brotherly Love) Advertising Sales Director Challenge builds bridges, strengthens L’Chayim 23 Larry Nieman existing bonds and makes a Festive Season is Ripe for Kosher Wines bold statement of mutual caring and Great Picks by Great Wines to Sales Executive interdependence in the Memphis accompany those mouth-watering Martin Greenberg Jewish community. family meals. Chief Financial Officer Donald Heitner 24 Feature Lights, Camera, Action: Indie Volume 11 Number 1 Memphis Film Festival Celebrates October 2017 20th Anniversary Tishrei / Cheshvan 5778 Let’s just say they’re rolling out the red carpet for this milestone. Jewish Scene magazine must give permission for any material contained herein to be 26 Senior Living copied or reproduced in any manner. 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Jewish Scene is dedicated to creating awareness among the Jewish community; and promoting and Cordova, TN 38016 supporting the religious, educational, social and fundraising efforts of Jewish agencies and organizations. 2 October 2017 I www.jewishscenemagazine.com From the Editor From the Editor/Publisher Dear JSM Readers, Eleven years and counting! Business may have ebbed and flowed, customers have come and gone, and come back again. But Jewish Scene Magazine has remained faithful to our original mission: to connect Jewish communities in Memphis and around the world. We’ve shared stories of local programs, celebrities and ordinary people who make a difference, and highlighted the amazing work of communal organizations in the hope that you’ve integrated some of these into your own agencies. In this annual Guide to Jewish Memphis, we’ve featured a few amazing programs. Several of these were 60 YEARS OF generated in response to a community needs assessment that was conducted by Jewish Community Partners in 2014. Read how the Memphis Jewish community rallied SERVING CLIENTS to create and participate in outstanding programs such as the Jewish Community Security Council (page 19) and the Senior Services Collaborative (page 28). Then there’s Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Rabbi WITH INTEGRITY AND Mordechai Harris, who launched the Ahavat Achim (Brotherly Love) Challenge, getting all of the agencies to purposefully perform good deeds for each other during DEDICATION a secret exchange. The reveal luncheon gathered many happy participants (page 10). If you haven’t signed up your youngsters for free monthly Jewish books and CDs, TO EXCELLENCE. check out PJ Library on page 18. Anniversaries abound this year. Mazel Tov to Memphis Jewish Home & Rehab on its 90th anniversary (page 26). They are also celebrating 25 years of providing rehabilitative services. Indie Memphis Film Festival is celebrating a milestone with an incredible line up for its 20th anniversary (page 24). Be sure to check out the upcoming Memphis conference on Living Beyond Breast Cancer on page 6. Speakers, yoga classes, fashion and more, promise to connect those living with breast cancer to services and information. • Business Entities Cary Rotter shares some crucial information about client-caregiver compatibility. Check out his list for a • Bankruptcy good match on page 27. • Corporate and Business On the cover of our Annual Guide to Jewish Memphis, we are happy to share Memphis Jewish Federation’s Transactions er recently launched REACH CHAI in 2018 Annual • Employment and Labor Campaign. This year, more than ever, the needs are HARKAVY growing within the Memphis Jewish community • Estate Planning and Probate and abroad. Did you realize that every organization benefits from the Federation’s annual campaign? From SHAINBERG • Health Care toddlers in early childhood centers at all Memphis • Land Use Planning and Zoning Jewish organizations, to teen programs at synagogues, KAPLAN & BBYO, and Teen Israel trips, Hillels at the University of • Landlord/Tenant Law Memphis and Rhodes College, young adults in ConnecTI or YAD (the Young Adult Division of MJF) to seniors who DUNSTAN PLC • Litigation eat hot meals every day at the MJCC, Plough Towers or • Personal Injury Memphis Jewish Home & Rehab, and those whose needs ATTORNEYS AT LAW are met each day through programs at Jewish Family • Real Estate Service, every gift to the campaign touches all. | Meet Memphis Jewish Federation Annual Campaign Closing Leasing co-chairs Anthony Morrison, Cindy Finestone and Eileen Lending | Foreclosure Posner Up Close beginning on page 20. Their passion and commitment to Jewish and other non-profit institutions • Taxation are an inspiration to all. Happy 11th Anniversary to us! Thank you for keeping the Jewish Scene flame alive. 6060 Poplar Avenue Suite 140 L’Shana Tovah and Shalom, Memphis, TN 38119 901.761.1263 www.harkavyshainberg.com Susan C. Nieman - Publisher/Editor Jewish Scene I October 2017 3 Contributors Joel Ashner is director of Philanthropy and Gila Golder is associate, Community Community Engagement for Memphis Jewish Development for Jewish Community Partners. Home & Rehab (MJHR). She received her B.S. in A native of Baltimore, she holds a B.A. in Business Administration with a concentration Creative Writing from Brandeis University and in Marketing from Washington University in enjoys writing about programs and events in St. Louis. She recently celebrated 12 years with the Memphis Jewish community. She and her MJHR and was named the 2017 Association husband, Rob, moved to Memphis in 2015 from of Jewish Aging Services (AJAS) Professional upstate New York. They are members of Young of the Year. She and her husband, Dub, have Israel of Memphis. three adult children. She can be reached at [email protected]. Shoshana Cenker, a native Memphian, Catherine L. Ormerod, MSS, MLSP is the vice is the chief editor and head writer for a president, programs and partnerships media content production company, as of Living Beyond Breast Cancer. She is well as a freelance writer, proofreader and responsible for overseeing the implementation marketing consultant. Shoshana was one of all direct service and partnership initiatives