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Page 2—THE NEWS—January 1981 THE CHARLOTTE JEWISH NEWS Published monthly by: Charlotte Jewish Federation and Jewish Community Center Marvin Bienstockf Director Charlotte Hebrew Academy Raphael Panitz, Director Editors Aitn Longman Rita Mond Copy Editor Mel Cohen Club Editors Rose Massachi & Mary Gordon Feature Writers Muriel Levitt & Stutl Brenner International News Marta Garelik Copy Reader Fran Burg Photographers Ellie Luski & Michael Shapiro Copy deadline the 5th of each month P.O. Box U220188, Charlotte, N.C. 28222 Thoughts From the Lubavitcher Rebbe Editorial TTiis issue of The Charlotte Jewish News culminates two active and exciting years and marks the beginning of a third year for what we hope will be even more productive. We have read, edited and printed stories that we believe you, our readers, have wanted. Hopefully they have kept you well in formed as to what is happening in our own community as well as nationally and internationally. Somehow we must be doing something right! Otherwise how could we have won the Jewish Federation Public Relations Award two consecutive years? Our number ot readers is growing and advertising is beginning to increase. However, the financial burden of printing the paper still rests largely on our sponsoring organizations: Federation, Jewish Community Center and the Hebrew Academy. We hope the paper will eventually be self-sustaining through our advertisers. When you patronize them won’t you please let them know that you saw their “ad” in our paper! Our staff has been a delight to work with and if you have been reading the masthead, you probably have noted that that, too, is growing. Without our volunteers our task would be even greater. We also owe a tremendous thank you to Mar vin Bienstock who contributes greatly not only with articles but with his understanding and a good ear to problems that may arise. Sara Schreibman and the rest of the staff at the JCC have also been most cooperative. The New Year is here and with it comes the usual resolutions; some are kept and some are made only to be broken. We are not making any resolutions; instead we are still hoping for our dreams to become realities. We dream dreams of importance and dreams of trivia. We dream of hopes, of aspirations, of peace, of success, of happiness and of good health. We dream these dreams for ourselves, for our families, for our fellow man, for our people. Not all dreams are pleasant dreams. We have dreams of frustration, of disappointments and of failures. Fortunately these dreams are few in number. We have had a recurrent dream — the dream that all copy will be in at deadline time — the dream that there will be so many letters to the editors that not all can be printed. This dream also includes a place that The Charlotte Jewish News can call home ... our own news room! For the past two years we have been working in our homes, either on the kitchen or dining room tables. This is not what the recipe for a newspaper calls for... we need space and a permanent location for our files. And above all, our dreams include you, our readers. We need you! We need your confidence, your opinions, your ideas, your support. We need you to advertise, to get adver tisers, to help a couple of hours a month. If you are creative, if you can type, if you can copy read, why not volunteer? Why not try to help make our dream for this newspaper become a reality? We wish you a very happy, healthy and successful 1981! We wish the same for us! Rabbi Shneur Zalman of liadi, founder of Chabad-Luba- vitch, who was known as the Alter Rebbe, shared his house with his oldest married son, Rabbi Dov Ber (who later succeeded him as Rebbe and leader). Rabbi Dov Ber was known for his unusual power of concentration. Once, when Rab bi Dov Ber was engrossed in learning, his baby, sleeping in a cradle nearby, fell out and began to cry. The infant’s father did not hear the baby’s cries. However, the infant’s grand father, the Old Rebbe, who was also engrossed in his studies at that time, did hear the-baby’s cries. He interrupted his studies, went downstairs, picked up the baby, soothed it and replaced it in its cradle. To all this, the in fant’s father remained quite oblivious. Subsequently, the Old Rebbe The Cry of A Child by Rabbi Yoseph Groner admonished his son: “No matter how engrossed one may be in the most lofty occupation, one must never remain insensitive to the cry of a child.” This episode characterized one of the basic tenets of the C^abad-Lubavitch movement, to hearken to the cry of our dis tressed Jewish children. The “child” may be an infant in years, a Jewish boy or girl of school age, fallen out of the “cradle” of Torah education. Or it may be an adult in years, yet an “infant” insofar as Jewish life is concerned; an infant in knowledge and experience of the Jewish religion, heritage and way of life. The souls of these “children” cry out in anguish, for they live in a spiritual void, whether they are conscious of it, or feel it only subconsciously. Everyone of us, no matter how preoccupied we may be with any lofty cause, must hear their cries. For to help bring these children back to their Jewish cradle has a priority over all else. Our young are pounding on our doors; they are not leaving it up to us to figure out the order of priorities in our striving for a vital Judaism. A person who has a certain sum of money for charity is pondering how best to utilize the many possibilities that present themselves to dis burse the funds. 'But when a poor man on the verge of starva tion comes knocking on the door, asking for means to buy bread for himself and his fami ly, the speculation should end there. The days of doubt are now over, for those who need Jewish education, our youth, are themselves coming forward and raising cain about their spiritual starvation. But lack ing a Jewish background, their approach does not express itself in a clear-cut assertion of their needs. They do not say, as yet, “We want a Torah education starting from Alef-Bais and go ing . on forward and yet forward.” Listead they cry out, “Our lives are empty of mean ing.” They have received no Jewish education which would make them aware that what they themselves are sub consciously really after with their demands is Judaism. hi the light of all the above, let every one of us realize and take to heart that when our youth come pounding on the door, cry ing out the various demands and slogans that express the hollowness of their lives, we, who are fortunate enough to know that the true, serene and ennobling content of the life of a Jew has always been and will always be the Torah, must give them the genuine Torah- education which is the real ob ject of their search. Only then will they (and thereby also their parents and teachers) achieve true happiness. Liv Ullman Spurned Role In TV Film With Redgrave ^ Judy Siegel Jerusalem Post Reporter The Palestinians and the Palestine Liberation Organiza tion have Vanessa Redgrave, but Israel and the Jews have Liv Ullman. The Norwegian-bom film star was unfazed at a Jerusalem press conference by an Arab reporter’s request to hear her position on “the right of the Palestinians to tlieir own state.” Help Us Now! Now that the elections are over, all we have to worry about is what our elected officers will do for us; remember “by the peo ple and for the people.” For in stance, John E^st, the poor man in the wheelchair, is getting a tax free disability pension of $14,4(X) per year plus his new government salary of $60,- 662.50. Now here is a man who really understands the problems of the poor who get food stamps, and he is not go ing to let these free loaders get away with it. Now that’s what I call doing a good job! Go get ’em John! The Social Security Program supports a great many of us and it is, or was, a very go^ idea, but our politicians did not give the program a good basis. Hie Across The Editors* Desks Congratulations Dear Eklitors: I visited d!harlotte on behalf of the Council of Jewish Federations on two occasions and as a result of my interest in your community, had my name money collected from payrolls, etc., should have been put into an interest bearing program. Of course now there is no balance of funds to get interest on. If this had been done from the begin ning, the program would have been very effective. Plus it would not mean taking such a big bite out of the salary checks of the now working people. Our politicians better do something abcut it now! — Sylvia Sadoff placed on your mailing list. I have been receiving your newspaper ever since and have been delighted by its excellence. The intelligent writing and beautiful layout immediately caught my eye and the clarity of the print and pictures are far superior to most papers of com munities in the CJF Small (Ilities category. I complimented Marvin Bien stock and Harry Lemer when we were at dinner in Detroit last week; they indicated that the credit was totally yours. I am, therefore, pleased to add my congratulations to the host of others you have received and extend my best wishes for many more years of success. Beryl B. Weinstein Past President CJF Small Cities “I am not here to make political statements,” said Ul lman. “But I feel vei^ strongly that the State of Israel must sur vive the way it is — and anything that endangers Israel endangers the future of the Jewish people and the place they call their own.” Ullman noted that she turned down an offer to act alongside Redgrave in a recent television film about the Holocaust because ^e objected to her colleague’s pro-terrorist views and thought it was “in conceivable” to play alongside Redgrave in the part of a Holo caust survivor. Tlie 40-year-old actress arriv ed as the guest of Hadassah and to take part in their memorial to Henrietta Szold, Hadassah’s founder, on the 120th anniver sary of her birth. Ullman was pressed further by the reporter from Elast Jeru salem al^ut whether she had ever tried to visit an Arab coun try, and, “if not, was it because you are too closely tied with Jewish matters?” TTie actress said that as a representative of UNICEF, she asked to go to an Arab country. “But so far they said that a woman wouldn’t be heard there or wouldn’t have an impact.” Meeting with Ofira Navon, the president’s wife, at Beit Hanassi, Ullman said she recently completed a TV documentary at Auschwitz in which Jews who were children in Europe during the Holocaust retell their stories. She told Mrs. Navon that she supported her proposal for “refuge cities” for orphans around the world and would bring it up with her friends in UNICEF. Since her first role at age 18 as Anne Frank, Ullman has played numerous roles, and to day she is “enormously bored by acting.” She hopes to continue in her profession, but hopes to write (her autobiography Changing was a success) and travel around the world. From here, she travels to Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti for UN ICEF. She visited the Hadassah University Hospital nursing school and pediatrics depart ment with other members of the “In the Footsteps of Henrietta Szold” mission. TTie group of 34 American Jewish women were welcomed at Beit Hanassi by President Yitzhak Navon, who urged that Hadassah be “a real instrument for encouraging im migration and deepening Jewish education in the U.S.” Mission leader is Beatrice Feld man.
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