Page 2-THE NEWS-January, 1964
Groundbreaking
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you do so with...the constant
pride of being a Jew.”
Greetings were presented on
behalf of Reprsentative Jim
Martin by Administrative
Assistant Paul Jones. Also in
troduced for greetings were
State Representative Parks
Helms, Mayor Pro. Tem
Minette Trosch and Chairman
of the County Commission,
Fountain Odom.
To speak on behalf of the
Foundation, Alvine Levine
called on Herman Blumenthal,
Founding President of the
Foundation, who said, “When
we began the Project people
asked three questions, can the
institutions and their leaders
work together? Can we raise
the money? Will the Project
separate us from the general
community? Today, as we
stand here, we know the
answers to thse questions, and
we can be proud of those
answers.”
Representing the youth
groups who undertook a pro
ject to save bricks from the old
JCC, Larry Gerber spoke. As
he talked, his infant son lay
cradled on his chest and the
proud father told how he knew
his son would be the greatest
beneficiary of this dream. A
check from the youth groups
was then presented to the
Foundation.
A memorah made from the
rescued bricks was lit by
representatives of the various
institutions and organizations.
Included were: Leon Levine
G(M*elick, building committee
chair, for the turning of the
first shovels. Included were
cheering as a back hoe dug the
first two massive loads of
earth from the site. The
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heavy equipment which will
begin the transformation of
the project into reality.
Parade leads off groundbreaking ceremony.
for the Foundation, Michael
Simon for Beth Shalom, Bob
Bernhardt for the Academy,
Miles Levine for the JCC, Alan
Hirsch for B’nai B'rith Men,
Toby Silber for B’nai B’rith
Women, Charlotte Chapter,
Shelley Shuman and David
Van GUsh for BBYO, Ellen
Fligel for Hadassah, Peggy
Gartner for Halailah B’nai
B’rith Women, Dorothy
Shapiro for ORT, Howard
Neumann for Temple Beth El,
Billy Ashendorf for Temple
Israel and Harry Lerner for
the Federation.
With the combined flames of
the menorah burning brightly
in the overcast day, Hwry
Swimmer then came to the
microphone as chairman of the
Capital Campaign, he an
nounced the campaign had
surpassed its original goal of
$5.1 million by some $30,000
but that the goal had been in
creased to $5.6 million to allow
construction of an indoor pool
and health club facilities.
Alvin Levine then recogniz
ed the outstanding work of
Mark Bernstein in preparing
the massive amount of legal
work needed for the
cooperative venture. He also
cited the fine work of the
Foundation Director, Marvin
Bienstock and the ad
ministrative assistant Sarah
Schreibman.
“Now the moment we’ve
been waiting for has arrived.”
With these words the three
Shofar blowers returned to the
podium while the presidents of
the participating institutions
were joined by William
Mike Shapiro for the
Academy, Harold Josephson
for the JCC, Stan Greenspon
for the Federation, Allen Gor
don for Temple Beth El, Jerry
Levin for Temple Israel and
Alvin E. Levine for the Foun
dation. The presidents then
stepped aside and joined the
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Biden
Ceremonies concluded with a
benediction from Rabbi
Robert Seigel of Congregation
Beth Shalom.
Within minutes the site was
cleared as joyous celebrants
wended their way back to their
cars leaving the pond and the
land to await the arrival of the
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East, both in Washington and
abroad, including in recent
years both Prime Minister
Menachim Begin and the late
President Anwar Sadat of
Egypt.
In 1978, he was the chief
sponsor in the Senate of the
resolution to disapprove the
sale of F-15 fighter aircraft to
Saudi Arabia, on the grounds
that such a sale would escalate
the arms race in the Middle
East and adversely affect the
security of both the. United
States and Israel. That resolu
tion, unfortunately, failed and
the F-15 sale was approved.
When the present Adminis
tration proposed a new Saudi
Arabian arms sale, to include
not only equipment that would
enhance the capabilities of the
F-15 but also the highly
sophisticted and sensitive
AW ACS radar aircraft. Sena
tor Biden again joined the
leaders in the Senate of the ef
fort to disapprove the new
sale.
Throughout the controversy
that ensued, on the floor of the
Senate and in the Foreign
Relations Committee, he
argued tirelessly and arti
culately ageiinst the sale —
again on the grounds that it
would militate against the
security interests of the
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Senator Joseph Biden
United States, as well as
against the security of both
Israel and Saudi Arabia itself.
When the AW ACS sale was
brought to a vote, first in the
Foreign Relations Committee
and later on the Senate floor,
he remained adamantly oppos
ed to and voted against the
proposals.
A frequent and forceful
critic of the terrorist tactics of
the PLO, he has been and re
mains a strong supporter of
the Camp David peace
process.
Senator Biden has received
much acclaim and many
honors for his steadfast sup
port of American-Israeli
friendship and for his consis
tent efforts to strengthen the
security of both nations in the
Middle East. In 1980, he was
honored by the Jewish Na
tional Fund in his home state
of Delaware with the dedica
tion of the Joseph R. Biden,
Jr., Forest in Israel.
In addition to his ap
pearance at the Majors Gifts
dinner, Senator Biden will
speak earlier in the day to a
select, group of ^Larlotte
business and civic leaders.
From 5i0(rto 7 p.nL he will be
the guest of the Women’s
Division at a cocktail party for
women pledging $600 or more
to the 1984 Campaign.
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News From Utopia
The most enduring and in
fluential of all intentional com
munities in our time is the
Israeli kibbutz! The backbone,
the core of modem Israel’s
vision.
This talk focuses upon the
speaker’s reflection about
religion, work, woman’s
rights, family and cultural life
at Ein Harod, a 62 year old kib
butz in the lower Galilee. A
multimedia (slides)
presentation.
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Fishman
Date: January 22, 8 p.m.
Art & Tradition
Like its intell^tual history,
the art and architecture of the
post-medieval West have been
shaped by the romantic equa
tion of creativity with inven
tion. The cult of the new is so
striking an aspect of Western
culture that the continuous re
jection of precedent in itself
constitutes the normative
tradition. The literary critic
Octavio Paz uses the term
“the tradition of discontinui
ty” to describe the paradox of
this position. So deeply en
trenched is this value struc
ture that we often tend to ac
cept as natural and self-
evident two rather curious
consequences of it.
These are, first, the devalua
tion of the imitation, and se
cond, the marginality of the
artist. Each of these will be
surveyed by the speaker and
then turn to an alternative
tradition which our ethnocen
tric emphasis on the new had
made conceptually unattrac
tive and therefore largely in
visible to Western eyes. That
tradition not only does not
share the Western premise of
art as invention but is
predicated on its inverse. That
tradition is the Chinese! It has
held, for some two thousand
years, that in art, as in life, im
itation is more meritorious
than creation.
Speaker: Ms. Mary Alice Dix
on Hinson, UNCC Dept, of
Architecture
Date: February 19, 8 p.m.