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The Charlotte "TEWISH =NEWS
Vol. 7 No. 10
Charlotte, North Carolina
November, 1985
Federation To Present **Outreach’’ Program
At General Assembly in Washington, D.C.
November 13-17, thousands
of Jewish leaders from across
the country and the world will
gather in Washington for the
largest annual Jewish leader
ship event, the General
Assembly of the Council of
Jewish Federations. During
the Assembly, more than 100
small and large workshops will
be offered. These presenta
tions represent the outstand
ing thinking and achievements
of the countless programs and
planning done by the almost
six million Jews in the
American Jewish community.
Charlotte's Outreach Study
Of The Unaffiliated And The In
termarried has been selected
as one of these presentations.
It will be given to an audience
of several hundred represen
tatives from communities
across the country. Making
the presentation will be a
peuiel of Charlotte’s lay and
professional leaders. Ruth
Goldberg, Outreach chair, will
discuss the reasons and
development of the study.
Marvin Bienstock, Federation
Executive Director, will report
on the findings. Adrienne
Rosenberg, Social Services
Director, will describe the
results of a support group for
interfaith marrieds which was
established as a result of the
study. Sally Schrader, presi
dent of Temple Beth El, will
detail the many steps taken by
the temples in response to the
information uncovered in the
study.
As reported in the Charlotte
Jewish News, the study
disclosed that 40% of Char
lotte’s Jewry are not affiliated
with temples. The key reasons
given by 272 respondents were
the need to feel personally
welcome and wemted, coupled
with feelings of being Jewishly
unknowledgeable and there-
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Lubavitch To Celebrate
Fifth Anniversary At
Clianukali Dinner
Spirit Comes To Spirit Square
The 1985 Israeli Chassidic Festival will appear at Spirit Square on November 12 at 7:30 p.m. Spon
sored by the Charlotte Jewish Federation, this is the ‘‘kick-off’ for the ’86 Campaign. Tickets sold at
Temples, Federation, JCC and Academy.
An exciting Cheuiukah pro
gram will take place on Sun
day, December 8, in honor of
the Lubavitch fifth anniver
sary in North Carolina. This
will include an elaborate
kosher dinner with fantastic
entertainment Tit the Marriott
City Center in Charlotte.
The feature of the evening
will be the music of the
Piamenta band which comes
all the way from Israel. Born
into a family of musicians in
Jerusalem, the Piamenta
brothers developed a unique
brand of popular Israeli
Chassidic music. Their first
three albums became number
one hits in Israel and the
United States.
Another great feature of the
celebration will be the ap
pearance of Cantor Zalman
Baumgarten, who serves as
cantor of the Riverdale Jewish
Center in Riverdcde, N.Y. Can
tor Baumgarten will entertain
the guests with his magnifi
cent voice singing special holi
day renditions.
Senator Marshall Rauch will
be honorary chairman of the
celebration. Senator Rauch
has demonstrated a commit
ment to Judaism in his per
sonal life and in his political
career as well. Senator Rauch
is one of the leading sup
porters of Lubavitch of North
Ceirolina.
A dinner committee has
been formed to handle the task
of ticket sales and the dinner
program.
“The theme of the dinner is
a celebration of Lubavitch and
its programs in the state in the
past five years,” said Rabbi
Sen. Marshall Rauch
Yossi Groner, director of
Lubavitch of North Carolina.
“We will begin the program
with a grand Chanukah light
ing ceremony and the kindling
of a large size Menorah,”
Everyone in the community
is invited to the dinner celebra
tion. This is not a fund raising
event, just a celebration of
Judaism and Chanukah.
—In The News—
Academy News
3
Book Review
18
Bulletin Board
..16-17
Calendar
19
Candlelighting
2
Classifieds
19
Editorials
2
JCC
..10-11
Lubavitch
7
Recipes
19
Social Services
5
This 'n That
6
Women’s Division....
8-9
World Beat
4
Features
Teens Qo To Israel..
15
Wildacres Works Its Magic For Community Leaders* Retreat
“Beyond the Bricks!’’ that
was the unwritten theme for a
two-day retreat held for the
presidents and the delegates
from all of Charlotte’s major
Jewish institutions.
Twenty-four of the Jewish
community’s busiest leaders,
both lay and professional,
recognized that now is the
time to plan for future needs
and programs as well as for
the first year in the soon to be
completed facilities of the
Jewish Education and Com
munity Center.
They chose Wildacres, the
Blumenthal Foundation re
treat, set atop a mountain at
Little Switzerland, N.C.,
alongside the world famous
Blue Ridge Parkway. The set
ting was marked by a com
bination of isolation and
nature’s magnificence, blessed
by sunny days and crisp, cool
nights. Ideas crystalized into
plans; the sense of cooperation
was c£irried forward from the
construction phase to the next
phase — constructive use of
what has been created.
The retreat began with
Shabbat services, conducted
by Rabbi Harold Krantzler of
Temple Beth El, followed by
£m inspiring study session en
titled, “What Judaism Ex
pects of a Community,” led by
Rabbi Marc Wilson of Temple
Israel.
The first general session
focused on the “Real Problems
Facing the Jewish Community
in the Coming Years.” Presen
tations by participants focus
ed on population changes,
finances, education and
spirituality, as well as a sum
mary of the findings of the
“Outreach” study made by
the Federation of the un af
filiated and their concerns and
reasons.
Session two examined areas
for continuing cooperation in
cluding education, program
ming, community relations
and administration. The third
session concerned itself with
possible areas of competition
and ways to prevent problems.
Session four gave each presi
dent the opportunity to
discuss their major concerns
for the first year in the JECC
(Jewish Education and Com
munity Center).
It became cleeu* that the
problems and concerns that
each president faces are
shared by every president. It
remained to set up a series of
task forces designed to explore
these areas and develop
methods for planful ap
proaches to “mutuality” in ap
proach. This process of
mutualizing was clearly
understood to be a method
and means by which the in
(L to R) Peggy Gartner, Academy; Ron Katz, Federation; Miles Levine,
JCC; Mark Bernstein, Foundation; Bill Griffenhagen. Temple Beth El; Bill
Ashendorf. Temple Israel.
stitutions can work together
to avoid unnecessary duplica
tion and to derive the benefits
of acting and feeling as a
Jewish people WITHOUT in
any way compromising the
autonomy of each individual
institution.
The six task forces and their
chairs are: 1) OUTREACH:
Ruth Goldberg and Bill
Ashendorf 2) EDUCATION:
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