Page 4-THE NEWS-November 1979
New Education Committee
Gets Educated ...
When the recently formed Women’s Education Committee of the
Charlotte Jewish Federation decided they needed to be better
educated first, they knew all they had to do was “just ask Marvin.”
The result was an informative rap session with Marvin Bienstock,
director of the JCC and Federation. Following wine and a gourmet
luncheon hosted by Nancy (Mrs. Henry) Greenberg at her Arbor
Way home, the committee got down to basic questions.
Exactly what role does the Jewish Federation play in the
Charlotte community? What is its relationship to all other Jewish
organizations? What is the function of a separate Women’s
Division? What can an individual woman do? These were the issues
addressed.
The result was a better understanding of the total Jewish Com
munity picture and a decision to move forward with plans to better
inform and educate other women. This will be accomplished
through the formation of study groups, community teas and special
Women’s Day programs.
Education co-chairmen Bobbi (Mrs. Donald) Bernstein and Wen
dy (Mrs. Errol) Cohen say they feel quite confident that a solid
nucleus of vital, committed women will be built. Others attending
the luncheon were Gail Bienstock, Lois Benjamin, Lynn Cojac,
Joan Dim, Gayle Fein, Ellen Fligel, Annette Gross, Vicki Hopkins,
Donna Levin, Rose Massachi, Jill Newman, Judy Perlin, Rita
Parks and Marilyn Shapiro, this year’s chairman of Women’s Divi
sion.
If you are interested in joining hands with these committed
women, or in simply learning more about the plans of the Education
Committee, please phone Bobbi Bernstein, 364-8880, or Wendy
Cohen, 542-1755.
— Phyllis Serepea
THIS ’N THAT
Wendy Cohen
Bobbi Bernstein
Washington Trip For Charlotte Women
Women’s Division of the Greensboro Federation has planned a
one-day trip to Washington, D.C. December 5th, open to women who
have pledged $365 or more. Charlotte women in the same gift
category have been invited to join the Greensboro group. The trip in
cludes a VIP White House tour, a White House staff briefing, a visit
to the Israeli Embassy with an AIPAC (American-Israeli Political
Affairs Committee) briefing, a private tour of the East wing of the
National Gallery, a State Department briefing, and dinner with
Speaker Talisman. Also, lunch at Capital Hill is tentatively plann
ed. The cost of the trip is $115 (this is in addition to the $365
minimum pledge). Departure time is approximately 7 a.m. and the
return is 11 p.m. the same evening. For those who desire to stay
overnight, these arrangements can be made at an additional
L-liarge. Deadline for reservations is November 21st. Call Gail
Bienstock, 365-3395, or the Charlotte Federation office, 366-0358.
Since space is limited, reservations will be taken on a first-come
first-serve basis.
Holocaust Teaching
Revisionist historians are at it
again. The Institute for
Historical Review, based in
California, is offering a $50,0(X)
reward for anyone who can
prove that the Nazis operated
gas chambers to exterminate
European Jews during World
War II. You might recall
Professor Arthur Butz, who is a
member of the Institute, from
Northwestern University who
wrote the book, “The Hoax of
the Twentieth C!entury.” The
kooks and hatemongers come
out of the woodwork every time
there is a major, positive
program such as the rebroad
cast of NBC’s mini-series,
“Holocaust.”
Even though those who
promote these revisionist
theories and lies are few, we can
not dismiss them as insignifi
cant. Whether it be twenty, fifty,
or a hundred years from now as
people review history, they will
find on library book shelves
documents which completely
distort and rewrite history. As
years pass and there are fewer
people who can give personal,
first-hand accounts of the
Holocaust, the questions which
the revisionist historians raised
will be given more credibility.
Many young people today don’t
know what the word
“holocaust” means much less
what that period in our history
represented.
It is essential that our own
young people as well as those in
public and private schools
around the nation be taught the
tragic history of the Holocaust
and its implications for all
mankind now and in the future.
What are you doing to en
courage Holocaust education in
your synagogue, school, com
munity, and most important, in
your home? Will your children
or grandchildren be able to
refute the arguments made by
the likes of a Professor Butz?
Blessed are the meek for they
shall inherit the earth—less 40%
inheritance tax.
Gladys Lavitan has been ap
pointed by Governor Hunt to
select the best book by a North
Carolinian for a special award.
The Temple Beth El Men’s
Club s back again! New officers
for this year are: Allen Gor
don, president; Stephen
Courtland, vice-president;
Julian Saly, treasurer; Robert
Zipp, secretary.
At UNC’s University Day,
Dr. Jacob Freedland received
a Distinguished Alumnus
award. Earlier this year he was
honored with the establishment
of the Jacob Berke Freedland
CJhair in' Endodontics at the
UNC School of Dentistry and
the distinguished service award
of the N.C. Chapter of the
Academy of General Dentistry.
Dr. Freedland has been presi
dent of the American Associa
tion of Endodontists and chair
man of the advisory committee
on endodontics for the Council
on Dental Education of the
(Commission on Accreditation
— the national accrediting
body.
New Books In Review
“THE JERUSALEM DIA
MOND” by Noah Gordon,
Random House: $9.96, 304
pages.
Harry Hopeman is a
successful New York diamond
merchant, a Jew who practices
his religion but thinks little
about his heritage, when he is
asked to go to Israel to buy a
large yellow diamond.
It is no ordinary diamond. A
newly discovered ancient scroll
indicates it was one of the
treasures in Solomon’s temple.
It was dug from its Old Testa
ment hiding place by an early
Moslem leader, taken from a
Jew killed during the Spanish
inquisition, given to the pope,
stolen from the Vatican. It is
secretly being offered for sale by
an exiled friend of Egypt’s King
Farouk.
Leaders of all three religions
ask Harry to buy it for them. His
Jewish heritage wins, and the
experience changes his life.
The story itself is fascinating,
with excellent characterization,
unexpected' twists of plot,
romance and flashbacks to
several eras of Jewish history.
But more, Gordon taught me a
great deal about the diamond in
dustry, about Israel, and about
how it feels to be a Jew.
— BECKY COON
(Reprinted from The Charlotte
News)
“THE SECRETARY” by
Jochen von Lang, Random
House: $16.96. Photos.
This is a fascinating
biography of Martin Bormann,
the man Hitler called his “most
loyal party comrade,” which
definitely establishes Bor-
mann’s suicide on May 2,1945
— thus ending a 30-year
mystery. Drawing on informa
tion never before riBvealed,the
author has put together an in
tricate picture of the Fuehrer’s
fanatically' loyal, ruthless
righthand man, from his
obscure birth in 1900 through
his behind-the-scenes rise to
power. The Secretary is a land
mark book on the history of the
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look at the Third Reich’s inner
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“JEWISH BOOK AN
NUAL,” Volume 37, edited
by Dr. Jacob Kabakoff, JWB
Jewish Book Council: $12.
This is the tri-lingual
American yearbook of Jewish
literary creativity. Among its 19
fascinating and varied articles
is “Devils, Jews and Isaac
Bashevis Singer,” by author
and literary critic Harold U.
Ribalow. He presents an ap
preciation of the works of the
Nobel Pri2e-winning Yiddish
writer and calls attention to the
irony that Singer’s severest
critics are the Yiddish ones.
Dr. Eisig Silberschlag,
visiting scholar at the Oxford
Centre' for Postgraduate
Hebrew Studies, points out in
his article, “Arab-Jewish (Con
frontation in Hebrew Fiction,”
that a consider^le number o£
Hebrew novelisi8,'i>oe{?, and es*’
sayists deal with the Arab.
The Holocaust has been
trivialized, perverted and even
“pomographied” by writers,
English professor David Mirsky
of Yeshiva University asserts in
“Abuse of the Holocaust in
literature.”
A total of863 works of Jewish
interest published in Ameqca,
Israel and Great Britain during
the past year are annotated in
seven bibliographies in
English, Hebrew and Yiddish.
Why I Teach
At The Academy
By Nancy Goodman
If anyone had told me last fall
that I would be living and work
ing in Charlotte within a year, 1
would have replied, “Where’s
C!harlotte?” Being bom and
raised on Long Island (and ex
tremely proud of being a
“Native Noo Yawker”), the
South definitely did not figure in
my plans for the future.
When the Hebrew Academy
was advertising in the New
York Times for a teacher last
spring, I was at a decision mak
ing point in my life. I knew that
if I wanted a (jKDOD teaching
job, one with a future, 1 would
have to leave New York. It
would have been easier to stay
with my old job, but that was a
dead end. At the age of 21,1 was
not anxious to get into a rut
career-wise!
The fact there was a position
open in Charlotte was my initial
reason for coming here — but
definitely NOT the deciding fac
tor. There were several factors
in my decision. The most impor
tant was my experience during
my thre^day visit to Charlotte
last April. Fitst impressions are
important and mine were all
positive. I felt immediately that
it was exactly the type of
teaching situation I was
searching for.
My first impressions have
proven to be accurate. I am con-
stantly thrilled by the
relationship I have with the
kids. The staff and parents
couldn’t be more supportive. I
have the fireedom to teach the
way I feel I should, in a relaxed,
creative, PRODUCTIVE at
mosphere. Although these
things are necessary to produc
tive teaching and learning, they
are rarely present in most
^chools. , . ,
There isiL^ery special feeling
in the building on Sardis Lane,
but I hope the key word for the
future is growth. The plans fora
centrally located complex for
the temples, the JCC and the
school are full of promise.
I can’t think of a better time to
have -gotten involved with
(Charlotte. New York is a won
drous place to live, but the poten
tial for growth here is much
greater, and I think I’d like to be
a part of that growth.
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Bank Hapoalim announced it has opened a
banking house in Montevideo, Uruguay. It will be officially known
as Hapoalim (Latin America) Casa ^ncaria' S.A. and is a sub
sidiary of Bank Hapoalim (Switzerland) Ltd. It will service clients
in Uruguay and will promote business in South America. The bank
ing house will be significant in the expansion of trade between
Israel, Switzerland and Latin America.
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