The
Charlotte
Jewish
NEWS
Non-Hroflt OrKunizHtion
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U.S. I’oNtuKf PAID
Charlotte, N. f.
IVrmit No. 120H
VOL. 2 NO. 2
Charlotte, North Carolina
February 1980
Your Federation Dollars At Work
Replacing Poverty With Dignity
Perhaps you are wondering
who decides how much will go to
each organization. The
Charlotte Federation’s “Ad
vocate” system is well known
and honored all over the U.S.
Under this system approximate
ly 20 members of the Federation
Board of Directors (including
the presidents of every Jewish
organization) accept respon
sibility for learning about and
recommending the allocation
for one or more recipients. It is
up to the recipient institutions to
educate their advocates and to
report so the allocation can be
made.
The Advocates submit their
recommendations in person or
in writing to the six-person
Allocations Committee which
reviews and recommends
changes. The total Federation
Board reviews both the Com
mittee and the Advocate reports
and makes the final decisions.
“We work very hard for your
pledges and for your trust and
doubly hard to honor that
trust,” states Shelton Gorelick,
1979 Allocations Chairperson
and 1980 Campaign Co-
chairman of Men’s Division.
I ast Year Charlotte
HUmed $S11,000
Of the $511,000 Israel and
Jews around the world received
71 out of every dollar. Twenty
cents of every dollar stayed in
Charlotte and a little over 1P
^1%
BEFORE
went to the National Organiza-
tion. The remaining 7.8C
covered the complete costs of all
Federation operations includ
ing Russian Resettlement, Com
munity Relations, and Cam
paign costs and salaries.
A complete list of the
recipients and the allocations is
available at the Federation of
fice.
1980 Campaign Update
As of January 11th the com
bined Men and Women’s cam-
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Sunday - February 17 - 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. - JCC
Coordinated by HA LAILAH BBW, Sponsored by
CHARLOITE FEDERATION with cooperation of MERCY
HOSPITAL
IVained medical technologists supervised by Dr. Sanford Ben
jamin
$3 per person (voluntary donation) to help defray costs
Anyone under 18 must have signed parental permission
Kindly return cards sent in January mailing. Testing does not
necessitate this return.
paigns raised a total of $492,202
from 188 contributors. In 1979
these same contributors pledged
$387,583. The 1980 Campaign is
therefore $104,619, or 27%,
ahead. Men’s campaign is ex
actly 27% ahead. Women’s Cam
paign is a whopping 32% ahead.
Even more excitinfisae the pace
of the 1980 campaifirn. Aa ot
January 11th the dollars pledg
ed were double the amount
pledged last January. At this
rate the campaign total will ex
ceed $610,000. A hearty thank
you to all who have already
pledged and those who will for
making sure there are more
dollars with which to get the
needs met.
Cash Collections Keeping
Pace With Pledges
In December of 1979 the
i
AFTER
Federation collected over $260,-
000 in pledges. UJA was the
recipient of $204,000 — an all-
time, peace-time high for any
one month. Congratulations go
to the many volunteers from the
Federation whose telephone
reminders so generously jogged
so many checkbooks.
Academy Students Excel
Lerner To Serve On CJF Board
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Harry
Lerner, President of the
Charlotte F'ederation, has been
named to serve on the Board of
Trustees of the Council of
Jewish Federations.
CJF President Morton L.
Mandel of Cleveland an
nounced that the 1980 Board in
cludes representatives from a
broad range of member com
munities, in accordance with
the recommendations developed
in the CJF Review process and
approved by Federations in
June, 1978.
CJF Board members are
drawn from the leadership of
local Federations. In addition,
individuals selected to chair
CJF committees automatically
serve on the Board of Directors.
Convening at the (jJeneral
Assembly and CJF quarterly
meetings, the Board is Council’s
central governing body,
supervising policy, finance and
programs.
The Council of Jewish
Federations is the association of
more than 190 Federations,
Welfare Funds and Community
Councils which serve nearly 800
communities and embrace over
95 per cent of the Jewish popula
tion of the United States and
(Danada Established in 1932,
the Council serves as a national
instrument to strengthen the
work and the impact of Jewish
Federations through leadership
in developing programs to meet
(Continued on Page 10)
Students at the N.C. Hebrew
Academy at Charlotte recently
took the Stanford Achievement
Test. The results were gratify
ing; the students scored
significantly above the national
norms in all areas tested. The
tests were given to the students
in first, second, fourth and fifth
grades.
The Stanford Test is one of the
nationally recognized tests
which is used to measure
academic achievement. Even
those tested at the beginning of
the first grade showed signifi
cantly high scores which were
well above the national norms.
This can be attributed in part to
the kindergarten curriculum at
the Academy which challenges
the students to work toward
their potential. There are a
number of factors which must
be considered when assigning
significance to the test scores:
heredity, academic orientation
in the home and the capability
of the school to develop the
children’s abilities.
Academy Test Scores
ACADEMY STUDENT TEST SCORES
Numbers indicate years above the national norms
Total
Battery
Auditory
Reading
Math
Studies
Social
Science
Grade 1
1.5
2.8
1.7
1.1
—
Grade 2
—
1.8
1.0
1.1
—
—
Grade 4
—
2.5
2.4
1.0
2.2
1.5
Grade 5
—
1.8
2.0
1.4
i
2.0
1.6
YIDDISH THEATER, p. 10
JCC DAY CAMP, p. 5
HUMAN RELATIONS AWARD,
p. 4
In The News
Community Random
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Candlelighting ... p. 3 Dry Bones p. 6 This ’n That
Classified Ads.. p. 11 Editorials p. 2 World Beat .
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p. 10
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