HUC-JIR Student Wins Photo Contest



First-year HUC-JIR rabbinical student Nicole Roberts won the landscape category of a photography contest in celebration of Israel's 60th anniversary. Her photo was taken during a Shabbat walk in February and is of a palm tree grove at Kibbutz Yahel.

The Jewish Federation and Gordon Jewish Community Center of Nashville, TN, along with Dury's photo shop, sponsored a photography contest. Participants were invited to submit original photographs of Israel in one of five categories: people, landscape, spiritual, architecture, or technology.


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