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Page 2 THE NEWS-September, 1986 THE CHARLOTTE JEWISH NEWS Published monthly by: Charlotte Jewish Federation Marvin Bienstock, Director Foundation of Charlotte Jewish Community & Jewish Community Center Barry Hantman, Director N.C. Hebrew Academy Berta Straz, Administrator Lubavitch of N.C Rabbi Yossi Groner, Director Editor Rita Mend Advertising Blanche Yarus Copy deadline the 10th of each month P.O. Box 13369, Charlotte. N.C. 28211 The appearance of advertising in The Newt docs not constitute a Itasiirutii endorsement. Spending Your Money • •• Editorial This Is Wiiat It*s All About It’s a Monday morning and raining, something unusual in Charlotte this summer. I am at my desk, not particularly looking forward to a long day of do ing layout, proofreading, etc. They don’t call Mon days “blue” for nothing! Somehow the day no longer looks so bleak when I hear the laughter of pre-school children as they run down the halls of the Blumenthal Educational Building. Behind them I note that members of the Chai-lites are taking a walk while engaged in conver sation with one another. “This is what it’s all about” ...youngsters and oldsters at Shalom Park. My office window looks out on the walkway leading to the Leon and Sandra Levine Jewish Community Center Building and every minute there’s someone passing by; some I know and some I don’t, but all smile, nod or say hello. They are coming to Shalom Park for many different reasons...some are in aerobic attire, others in swimsuits, a few coming to play rac quet ball. They are children, teenagers and adults. There are college boys, who have not yet returned to school, who get together to play basketball in the Alvin E. Levine Gymnasium. “This is what it’s all about.” Women, young and middle-age, carrying note pads, are arriving for one of the several meetings that are taking place. The organizations now have a place to call “home”...“this is what it’s all about” at Shalom Park. What a busy place the workroom is and especially so the copy machine. It cranks out sheet after sheet of releases, teaching materials, minutes of meetings, etc. It is automation to say “this is what it’s all about” at Shalom Park. By the time this isssue of the CJNews arrives, the schools will be open and our children will be atten ding the Hebrew Academy, the religious schools of Temples Israel and Beth El V’Shalom and the new consolidated High School. Toddlers will be at Tem ple Israel’s nursery school and the little ones will be at Mother’s Morning Out. “This is what it’s all about”. Shalom Peirk is coming ALIVE with the sounds of all generations. There is something for everyone — just look at the marvelous facilities in the health club, the gymnasium, the pools (all-year swimming in the indoor pool); the variety of programs and classes for adults and children. Looking for new friends? Join the JCC; get involved. “This is what it’s all about”. It is now early evening and the men are beginning to arrive. Some to participate in some form of athletics; others are coming to attend a meeting. A few of the men are accompanied by their children; what a wonderful way of feunilies doing things together. “That’s what it’s all about” at Shalom Park. I hope that I see you and you and you any day of the week. May you and your family have a happy and healthy New Year. — Rita Mond By Marvin Bienstock Director of Charlotte Jewish Federation Let’s talk dollars — your dollars and how the Federa tion will go about spending well over $1 million of them over the next 6 months. The process is called “ALLOCATIONS” and it is the single most important task Federation does. If we do it right, and if we help you to understand how we do it, then you are going to feel even bet ter about your pledge to the annual campaign. Right now, the Allocations Committee and its Chair, Harry Lerner, are starting to work on how much it will take to meet our local needs and our world-wide commitments for calendar year ‘87. They understand the idea that “All Jews are responsible for one another” and they take that responsibility very seriously. The allocations process began several months ago when members of the commit tee and the Federation board were assigned to act as “evaluators” for each and every institution and organiza tion being considered for an allocation, and there are 33 of them. Since then, the evaluators have been receiving mailings, data, visits, phone calls. All of this is designed to educate the evaluators about the specific functions and needs of their assigned recipients. Over the 10 years this pro cess has been used, the Federation board members have each served as evaluators for a wide variety of recipients. When they vote on the final amounts, they know, intimate ly, the deteiils they need to know. The members of the Alloca tions Committee serve as evaluators for the largest reci pients like the JCC, Social Ser vices, Blumenthal Home, etc. 8 Letters to the Editor A Visit to Shalom Parle Is Exciting One of the children and one of the ladies who watch over the writer (on right) each year when she visits Nazaret Illit. Words can not express the joy and elation I felt as I toured Shalom Park. This was my first visit and aU I could do was to silently praise G-d! I felt like I was in Jerusalem and to “c€^” it all off, as I was leaving the building in came all those lovely children and I thought I was at Nazaret Illit. I could not hold back the tears any longer and I have cried ever since. No one could ever know how much the visit to Shalom Park meant to me. Thank you. — Nettie Smith The Allocations Committee held marathon sessions at which ten of the largest reci pients presented their re quests in person with plenty of time for questions and discus sion. To these requests, Allocations will add the amount it recommends for UJA — for the needs of Jews in Israel and Eastern Europe and the countries in the Mid dle East. The Committee will also establish a percent in crease for all the other, smaller, recipients. When all these figures are added together they will represent the necessary GOAL FOR THE 1987 CAMPAIGN. That recommended GOAL will be brought to the September Federation board meeting for approval. Then, my friends, it is all up to you! The 1987 Campaign will be conducted from this September through this December. It will have taken the work of HUNDREDS of volunteers who prepeu-ed the budgets for the recipients, who acted as evaluators and who recommended and ac cepted the goal. Add to that the work of HUNDREDS of campaign volunteer workers. Finely, add in the thousands and tens of thousands of members and clients and in dividuals involved in all the services and programs of the recipient institutions and organizations. Among all those people you will find your friends, neighbors and relatives. You will find yourself and your family. You may be the volunteers. You will be the recipients — because Federa tion dollars benefit everyone! So, it is up to you to unders tand and accept the concept that “All Jews are responsible for one another.” Because, without you none of this can really work. If you would like to help with the CAMPAIGN — and there are lots of different jobs that need doing in addition to solicit, give the Federation of fice a call at 366-5007. The Jewish Calendar Candlelighting Sept. 5-7:27 p.m. Sept. 12 - 7:17 p.m. Sept. 19 - 7:07 p.m. Sept. 26 - 6:57 p.m. Oct. 3 - 6:46 p.m. (1st night-Rosh Hashanah) Oct. 4-7:45 p.m. (2nd night-Rosh Hashanah) Oct. 10 - 6:37 p.m. (Erev Shabbos Shavuoth) Oct. 12 - 6:35 p.m. (Erev Yom Kipper) Oct. 17 - 6:27 p.m. (1st night-Succoth) Oct. 18 - 7:26 p.m. (2nd night-Succoth) Oct. 24 - 6:20 p.m. (Eve of Shemini Atzeret) Oct. 25 - 7:19 p.m. (Eve of Simchat Torah)
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