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Vol. 2 No. 10
Charlotte, North Carolina
November 1980
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When Rabbis
Wed Rabbis
What comes first, the couple
or the congregation?
The problem is old but the
phenomenon is new. The
problem: how to combine a
successful career and a satisfy-
ing family life. The
phenomenon: rabbis married to
rabbis.
Three rabbinic couples in the
New York metropolitan area are
trying to cope with the task of
balancing career and family
commitments. With an in
creasing number of women
standing and receiving ordina
tion from the Hebrew Union
College — Jewish Institute of
ReUgion — the Reform Jewish
seminary — rabbinic marriages
are expected to increase rapidly
during the 1980’s.
One of the couples is Rabbi
Deborah Prinz, assistant rabbi
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Blumenthal Jewish Home (photo/courtesy of Jewish Times-Outlook)
C JF General Assembly Meets In Detroit
Blumenthal Jewish Home Gala Weekend
~ The Blumenthal Jewish
Home (NC Jewish Home) com
memorated fifteen years of ser-
' ' vice to North Carolina Jewish
elderly and their families the
weekend of Oct. 4-5 with a
festive Fifteenth Anniversary
Ball and annual meeting.
Guests from across the state met
at the Home in Clemmons on
Saturday evening, Oct. 4, for
dancing, fellowship and a
cocktail buffet. Mrs. Morris
Brenner (Winston-Salem) and
Mrs. Abe Brenner (Advance) co
chaired the event.
Prior to the annual meeting
on Sunday, Oct. 5, visitors,
members of the Home’s Board of
Governors and residents were
treated to a buffet brunch and
participated in the Annual
Cadillac drawing, sponsored by
the N.C. Association of Jewish
Men.
Cyril Jacobs (Greensboro,)
President of the Board of Ciover-
nors, and Al. A. Mendlovitz, Ex
ecutive Director of the Home,
welcomed guests and visitors to
iht* A busincRw
sesision folio wed, Mrs. Elizabeth
Small, representing the Home
Store in Charlotte, made a
special presentation of money
raised by the store to the Home.
Rabbi Richard Rocklin, of
Temple Israel in Charlotte,
presented a 50th wedding an
niversary scroll in honor of Mr.
& Mrs. Nathan Sutker of
Charlotte. Mr. Sutker is a
member of the Board of (jover-
nors of the Home, and. Mrs.
Sutker serves as Remembrance
Chairman for the Home.
Elected to the Board of Gover
nors was Dr. Stephen B.
Mackler (Greensboro) for a one
year term; Ellis Berlin (Winston-
Salem), Harris Clein (Winston-
Salem), John H. Green
(Fayetteville), Kenneth Greene
(Greensboro), Judith Hyman
(Greensboro), Seymour Levin
(Burlington), Alvin E. Levine
(Clharlotte), Nathan Sutker
((3iarlotte), Stephen Sutker
(Charlotte), and A.E. Witten
(Gastonia) for three year terms.
Guest speaker was Dr. Sarah
T. Morrow, Secretary of the NC
Department of Human
Resources. Dr. Morrow’s
remarks on “Growing Old in
North Carolina: TTie Thrust of
the State for the 80’s” were well-
received by the crowd of ap
proximately 250.
She noted that North
Orolina has the fourteenth
largest population of older
adults in the nation and that
that proportion is expected to
grow even larger. “We are all
beginning to recognize that our
society can no longer afford to
push away the experience and
knowledge of nearly one million
of our b^t North CDarolinians,”
she said. Citing the fact that
government, rather than the
private sector, is responsible for
80% of the cost of care in rest
homes, Dr. Morrow indicated
that the government’s primary
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The 49th annual Council of
Jewish Federations’ (jeneral
Assembly will meet Nov. 12-16
at the Detroit Plaza Hotel,
Detroit, Michigan. (Dharlotte
represehtatives headed by
Harry Lerner will join over
2,000 leaders of North American
Jewish Federations to exchange
views on the major respon
sibilities and issues facing the
organized Jewish community in
the coming year. The (General
Assembly is recognized as the
major yearly convocation of
Jewish leadership in the United
States and Canada.
U.S. Senators Carl Levin (D)
of Michigan and Rudy
Boschwitz (R) of Minnesota
will hold a dialogue Nov. 15,
with Uie delegation on results of
the Presidential and C!on-
gressional elections and im
plications for North American
Jewry. The Senators join a
roster of distinguished speakers
that includes Prime Minister
Menachem Begin of Israel,
who will address the Plenary
session on Thursday evening,
Nov. 13. CJF President Morton
L. Mandel of Cleveland will be
the main speaker of the first GA
Plenary session, Wednesday,
Nov. 12. This session also will
include a dramatic reading by
the well-known stage, screen
and television performer
Joseph Wiseman.
Four GA Forums will explore
major issues confronting the
Jewish community in 1981.
Forum 1, “Strengthening the
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tended WJC meetings aaitrin Black, Stephanie Davis,
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In
The
News
Academy Notes —
p. 9
Bar/Bat Mitzvahs..
p. 7
Books in Review..
p. 3
Bulletin Board —
p. 6
Candlelighting
p. 4
Classified Ads
p. 10
Community
Calendar
p. 7
Dry Bones
p. 5
Eklitorials
p. 2
For the Record —
p. 3
JCC Corner
p. 8
Myths & Facts
p. 9
Random Thoughts.
..p. 2
This ’n That
p. 10
World Beat
p. 3
NEXT ISSUE:
Chanukah
Marathon
Dec. 7
Soviet Jewry
Rally Dec. 10^
Jewish Family,” begins with a
keynote address by Professor
Gerald Bubis, Director of the
School of Jewish Communal
Service, Union College,. Los
Angeles, discussing trends in
the contemporary Jewish fami
ly, and a commentary by Rabbi
Raymond A. Zwerin of Tem
ple Sinai, Denver, concerning
family values in the Jewish
tradition. These presentations
will be followed by five con
current workshops focusing on
the challenges of developing
community support systems for
various stages in the life cycle;
the unmarried; families with
young children; families with
teen-agers; families with college
youth; families at mid-life and
retirement.
Other Forums scheduled for
the GA are: “The Struggle for
Soviet Jewry — A Program for
Action by Local (Communities,”
“Community Relations
Priorities in the ’80’s: Israel and
the Middle East, Urban Affairs,
Inter-Religious Activities,”
“Serving the Aging — Public-
Voluntary Collaboration.”
Sephardic life and culture will
be discussed by Prof. Jose
Faur of the Jewish TTieological
Seminary at the Friday Oneg
Shabbat. Shabbat services on
Saturday will feature a sermon
delivered by Herschel W.
Blum berg. National Chair
man of United Jewish Appeal.
Three top young scholars will
share their views of ‘'Rie
Jewish Future” at the Saturday
Oneg Shabbat.
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