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the Jewish bserver www.jewishobservernashville.org Vol. 83 No. 2 • February 2018 16 Sh’vat-13 Adar 5778 Be a superhero at this year’s Tzedakah Funday By KATHY CARLSON Funday committee. “It’s also easier than Tzedakah-themed free family activities They’re both Nashville natives who screening your friend’s call and having to during Tzedakah Funday. The family pro- were classmates at the University School uperheroes answer their explain why when you run into him/her grams start at noon and run through 4:30 of Nashville from kindergarten through phones when they ring, espe- at Pilates.” p.m., and there’s free food and ice cream 12th grade. After college and two years cially on a certain Sunday Serving with the Perrys on the com- bars for participating families. Activities working in New York, the couple returned this month. mittee are chair Rachel Iroff and Eric include making family tzedakah, saving to Nashville in 2009 after getting engaged. That’s the message Mirowitz. and spending boxes and assembling emer- “We both grew up in households from organizers of this year’s The annual fundraiser, traditionally gency kits for distribution by local Jewish with parents and siblings who were (and STzedakah Funday event benefiting the held on the Sunday after the Super Bowl, agencies supporting Jewish students. The still are) very active and involved com- Jewish Federation and Jewish Foundation brings in about 20 percent of the pledg- kits are sponsored by Cash & Carry. munity members,” they said in an email. of Nashville and Middle Tennessee. The es to the Federation’s annual campaign, “We’re celebrating philanthropy,” In addition, Mollie has been friends event runs from 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at the which funds scores of pro- said Joel Abramson, financial for years with Carolyn Hecklin Hyatt, Gordon Jewish Community Center on grams and initiatives that resource development officer the Nashville federation’s community Sunday, Feb. 11. You can volunteer at help Jewish Nashville and with the Nashville Federation. engagement associate. “Carolyn’s enthu- jewishnashville.org/TZF. fellow Jews around the “It will be a really big day. siasm for the Federation’s mission and “Donating the two to five minutes world, including in Israel. Come to help our community its program is infectious. When Carolyn to receive a Tzedakah Funday call pays This year, Federation and make an impact.” asked us if we would consider serving on dividends for dozens of programs and is partnering with the For the Perrys, being the committee we were very excited to thousands of individuals,” say Mollie and JCC’s new Sunday Funday involved in community proj- get involved,” they said. Bobby Perry, who are on the Tzedakah program to provide ects is a family tradition. Continued on page 2 iStock IMAGE Making Nashville Nashville Ballet ushers in Violins feel like home hat makes a place a “Now Gen has been a great resource for home? More specif- me as a new Nashville person.” ically, what makes Originally from New York, Groner Nashville a warm has lived in Nashville since August. Jewish home? She earned her bachelor’s degree in For one recent public health and business and works for Wcollege graduate, it’s knowing she can Stratasan, a health care data-analytics plug into a network of friends through the startup based in Nashville, as a product Jewish Federation of Nashville’s Now Gen associate. programming. For a young professional She heard about the Federation’s with a family, it’s finding a like-mind- Now Gen program through three differ- ed community through the Federation’s ent friends in New York, whom she knew Community Relations Committee. For from United Synagogue Youth activities. another, now-established Nashville cou- They told her she needed to check out ple, joining the Federation-supported Now Gen. She did, and urges other new- Gordon JCC when their children were comers to do the same. young helped create relationships that “Step One, go onto the Now Gen have lasted over the years. events page on Facebook,” she says. Go You could say the Jewish Federation to an event – there are lots of them, she and Jewish Foundation of Nashville and says, adding, “You will meet people.” Middle Tennessee is the glue binding Since she arrived in town, she has together many services and organizations hosted Jewsic City Shabbat and spends that make our community a home. This time with East Side Tribe, which plans and month, Federation’s annual campaign holds Jewish activities in East Nashville. month, we can join together to help ••• Nashville remain the kind of home we Joshua Segall relocated from enjoy and open to friends from all over Montgomery, Ala., to Nashville a few the world. years ago with his wife and family. He ••• grew up in Montgomery, where his family The Nashville Ballet is presenting “Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project,” which is based on the story of Holocaust survivor Naomi Warren. A full story on “Basically, all of my friends are has been active in Federation activities. “Light” and updated information on upcoming Violins of Hope events this spring through Now Gen,” says Becca Groner, Segall himself served on the board of the are on page 4 inside. PHOTOGRAPH BY TONY SPIELBERG COURTESY OF BALLET AUSTIN a 2017 graduate of Brandeis University. Continued on page 2 A Publication of the Tuttle-Singer Purim Camps speaks on community Special Zionism in the events, Section, modern age – page 8 page 21 IMPACT talk 7, page 3 Camps WWW.JEWISHNASHVILLE.ORG Feel like home Get involved with your community Continued from page 1 Jewish Federation of Central Alabama and says he was raised to be involved with 30 Days of Doing Good with Federation. eed some inspiration • Sunday, Feb. 4: NowGen Super Bowl here a while, but still feel new or want He has found a niche in Nashville or ideas on how to get Party and Mitzvah Moment. Contact to continue to meet new people please with the Federation’s Community involved in your Jewish Carolyn Hyatt for details at (615) 354- join us. It’s a casual reception where Relations Committee, on which he community? 1650 or [email protected] newcomers will meet both Welcoming co-chairs the rapid response committee How about a whole • Wednesday, Feb. 7: IMPACT Ambassadors of Nashville along with with Nashville attorney Irwin Venick. month’s worth? Leadership Speaker Event with other newcomers. For location infor- “I found a group of people (in the CRC) NFor the second year in a row, the Sarah Tuttle-Singer, new media mation, contact Barbara Schwarcz, that I have a lot in common with,” he Jewish Federation and Jewish Foundation editor, Times of Israel; 6 p.m., [email protected], or (615) said. He’s learning from his fellow CRC of Nashville and Middle Tennessee offers Gordon JCC 354-1630. members and is sharing his experiences 30 Days of Doing Good, events designed • Sunday, Feb. 11: Tzedakah Funday, 10 • Saturday, Feb. 24: NowGen Purim in related work in Montgomery. to bring people together so they can be a.m.-4:30 p.m., Gordon JCC Masquerade, 8-11:30 p.m., Fat Bottom Segall also said he appreciates the part of the community. • Sunday, Feb. 18: Jewish Newcomers Brewery greater opportunity in Nashville’s larger This year’s events are designed to Reception, part of the Federation’s Check out Doing Good videos on Jewish community for his children to meet help people know what Federation does Welcoming Ambassadors program, 3-5 the Jewish Federation of Nashville’s and find friends in other Jewish children. and how they can participate. p.m. Event open to everyone, all ages Facebook page, https://www.facebook. ••• This year’s calendar includes: and kids are welcome. If you’ve been com/JewishNashville/ Bruce and Kay Robins have grand- children now, but when they arrived in Nashville in the mid-1970s they were just starting out – the two of them and their eight-month-old daughter. Bruce grew up in the northeast and attend- ed college in Memphis, where he and Kay met. She had moved to Nashville from Memphis in high school, attending junior and senior years here. “The Jewish community was very wel- coming,” Bruce says. “It seems like there were a lot of people new to Nashville then.” In addition to joining The Temple, <01; the Robinses joined the JCC. Their chil- dren attended the preschool, swam in the pool and attended Camp Davis. For Bruce and Kay, the J was where they <B-,)3)0.=6,)A got to know other couples and families. Eventually, Bruce served two three-year <0-.)<-7.<0-2-?1;0?7:4, terms on the JCC’s board of directors. As their children grew up, they continued their connections with the 1;16A7=:0)6,; community in different ways. Bruce and Kay traveled to Argentina last year on a Volunteer or answer the call and make a powerful Federation mission. donation to Jewish Federation. You can change Bruce says he was a bit surprised to lives for Jews locally and around the world– learn about the connection between the Jewish Federation of Nashville and the without even donning a cape. Answer by organizations they visited in Argentina. “I phone or online and make a didn’t realize (the Federation’s connections superhuman dierence. were) global, not just to Israel,” he said. Now another generation of the Robins family is enjoying the Gordon JCC. Just this past summer, their grandson “went to JCC camp and loved it,” Kay Robins said.

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