The Knoxville Jewish Alliance UT Faculty Lecture Series
presents
From Jewish-Christians to Christian
Anti-Judaism: The Complexity of
Early Christianity
Christine Shepardson, PhD, University of Tennessee
Monday, April 19, 7-8:30 p.m. via Zoom
Christine (Tina) Shepardson, PhD, is head of the Department of Religious Studies and the Lindsay Young Professor in the Department of Religious Studies.
KJA's UT Faculty Lecture Series invites scholars from the University of Tennessee to share their research with the Knoxville Jewish Alliance community.
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Enjoy Summer Time Fit at the AJCC
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Sign up for the 2021 AJCC Smokin' Salmon
Swim Team
The AJCC Smokin' Salmon swim team is open to children ages 5-18. Swimmers are divided into age group competition levels. For 2021, the swim team fee is $225. Learn more and sign up online!
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Milton Collins Day Camp
Offers K-9th Graders
Nine Weeks of Most Fun Under the Sun
Milton Collins Day Camp features activities, daily swim lessons, electives, arts and crafts, sports, new friends, and more! MCDC provides nine weeks of the most fun under the sun for rising K - 9th graders. COVID-19 guidelines will be followed. Learn more and register for MCDC online.
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Preschool Fundraiser Needs Your Help
The preschool's annual Art Gala raises funds to support the preschool, helping with staffing requests, classroom needs and playground equipment. Please support teachers and students by donating auction items, then mark your calendar for the May 9-12 Virtual Auction so you can bid. Contact Preschool at AJCC Director Kristen Cannon.
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KJA WEEKLY & MONTHLY PROGRAMS |
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Community events and program times are Eastern Time |
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Community Lag B'Omer Celebration
Friday, April 30 -- 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Arnstein Jewish Community Center
Everyone's invited to join us in celebration of Lag B'Omer and enjoy s'mores and cocoa
by the fire pit on the AJCC Grounds.
Event sponsored by the Knoxville Jewish Alliance
and the Greater Jewish Knoxville Men's Club
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Join Us on Thursday, April 22, 10 a.m.
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Amazon.com shoppers who participate in Amazon.Smile can choose to direct a percentage of sales to the Knoxville Jewish Alliance. Visit smile.amazon.com and select KJA as your non-profit today!
Amazon.Smile is now available in the Amazon Shopping app on your iPhone. Turn on this feature in your app's "Settings" to start generating KJA donations in the app, at no cost to you.
Create delighted smiles by surprising our Preschool at the AJCC teachers and students with delivery of an Amazon Wish List item. Deliveries are made directly to the Preschool at the AJCC!
Purchase preschool items via Amazon.Smile and it's a double bonus for your KJA.
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Knoxville Jewish Alliance
The KJA campaign helps good things happen.
Support Jewish friends and families in your East Tennessee community by making your KJA Campaign Donation today.
Donate securely on the KJA website, mail a check payable to KJA to 6800 Deane Hill Drive, Knoxville, TN 37919, or call (865) 690-6343 and make your pledge to the Knoxville Jewish Alliance.
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Temple Beth El invites our Jewish community
to join us for a musical service featuring Dan Nichols
Friday, April 16 at 7 p.m. via Zoom.
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Hadassah Knoxville Invites You to
Create A Safe Space
Sunday, April 18, 2 p.m.
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Heska Amuna Adult Education Committee presents
Introducing A “Revolution”:
The New Understanding of The Historical Jesus and What It Means for Jews Today
By Jacob Meskin, Hebrew College
April 25, 7:00-8:30 p.m. Zoom
Few think of academic scholarship as “exciting,” but sometimes, with the right conjunction of need, circumstance, dedication, and ingenuity, even scholars can profoundly shake things up. A great example of truly exciting academic work can be found in the amazing new picture of the historical Jesus, and of his world, that secular and religious scholars alike have created over the last fifty years. It is a picture with deep implications for contemporary Jews.
In this lecture we will study and discuss this new picture, and the intriguing answers it might return to certain classic questions. For example, who was the historical Jesus? How did he understand himself and his mission? What is the relationship between the historical Jesus and the subsequent growth of the powerful movement that would, only many years later, be called Christianity? We will end by exploring what these compelling, new ideas mean for Jews today.
Dr. Jacob Meskin is an academic advisor and senior lecturer in the Me’ah Program at Hebrew College.
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The Mira Kimmelman
'Learning from the Holocaust' Contest 2021
The Mira Kimmelman Learning from the Holocaust Contest is open to both middle school and high school students. It is based on Mira’s work with students to teach them about the Holocaust so that it cannot be denied. Only by remembering and learning from it can we prevent it from being repeated.
The contest asks Tennessee students to create projects that reflect on the lessons of the Holocaust and how they are relevant to current events, and to their own lives.
The winner of the high school contest receives a prize of $750, and the winner of the middle school contest receives a prize of $500.
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