Page 2-THE NEWS-November, 1987
THE CHARLOTTE JEWISH NEWS
Published monthly by:
Charlotte Jewish Federation Michael L. Minkin, Director
Foundation of Charlotte Jewish Community &
Jewish Community Center Barry Hantman, Director
Charlotte Jewish Day School Berta Straz, Principal
Lubavitch of N.C Rabbi Yossi Groner, Director
Editor Rita Mond
Advertising Blanche Yarus
Copy deadline the 10th of each month
P.O. Box 13369, Charlotte, N.C. 28211
The appcarancc of advcrtUing in The Newt docs not constltut* a kashruth
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Editorials
Support Our Federation
It’s that time of year agsiin when The Chsirlotte
Jewish Federation will be calling upon us to give our
financial support. It is our moral responsibility to
help one another...the Jews in Charlotte...the Jews
in the Soviet Union...the Jews in Israel...the Jews all
around the world. The Federation also gives its finan
cial support to other interdenominational chsirities
which help the needy. In order to explain how much
we need those dollars and where those dollars Eire go
ing, a special supplement has been included in this
month’s Charlotte Jewish News. We hope after
reading it, you will give generously. Say “yes” and
give your pledge, when a volunteer calls upon you.
Thank you.
I Need Your Help!
After nine years of doing this newspaper, I still
have to ask that those who want their articles
published adhere to the guidelines, especially the
deadline date. In order to get each issue out on time,
it is absolutely, positively necessary that all items
are submitted no later than the 10th of the month,
preceding the month of issue; i.e., Nov. 10 for the
December issue. If that day falls on the sabbath or
on a holiday, then get it in before the 10th! Anything
sent in late will not be printed! Photos may come in
later, but please let me know that they are being sub
mitted (deadline on them is the 20th). All copy must
be typed, double-spaced, and done in upper and lower
case (not everything in capital letters). No hand
written copy will be accepted! If you have any prob
lems concerning this, then call me weekdays only from
9 a.m.-5 p.m.
We have been having a difficult time with the post
office; for some reason they love to hold on to the
paper, sometimes for as long as a week to 10 days.
If your paper is late, please complain to them, not
to me. If you do not receive your paper, complain to
the post office, not to me. I can not personally deliver
your paper to you, but you can pick up an additional
copy at the front desk of the “J”.
We also £ire receiving a tremendous number of “re
turns” on our mailings, due to people not letting us
know that they have moved. For every piece of mail
returned, we pay the post office 30t. That may not
seem like a lot of money, but when you multiply that
by the numbers times the months, it really comes to
quite a sum. Please let us know your new address and
help us save money.
Thank you for your help and understanding.
—Rita Mond
Jewish Calendar
Candleligiiting
Nov. 6 - 5:07 p.m. Nov.
Nov. 13 - 5:01 p.m. Dec.
Nov. 20 - 4:57 p.m. Dec.
27 - 4:54 p.m.
4 - 4:53 p.m.
11 - 4:53 p.m.
Why We Need
A Jewish Day School
Our hearts were broken on
Aug. 31 when, after a vote of
the Charlotte Jewish Day
School Board, Bob Brodsky,
president, announced that the
school would close Sept. 11.
When we told our daughter
Ruth, she was in tears (so were
we). She had attended kinder
garten at the school and was
enjoying her new first grade
class. Ruth immediately asked
to go to “the yellow school bus
school”. We transferred her so
that she would have an oppor
tunity to make friends and ad
just to the new environment.
Academically and socially,
public school was fine, but
something was missing. Ruth
could not tell us what it was.
When Roz (her mother) joined
Ruth for lunch at school, she
heard Ruth say her Hamotzi
before her meal and B’rachot
after her meal. We realized
that it was her Jewish educa
tion that she missed.
When, through the efforts of
many, many concerned people,
we were able to reestablish the
Day School, all of us were
elated, and naturally Ruth
Letters to the Editor
returned.
Ruth loves the school, and
her excellent, loving and
understanding secular tea
cher, Mrs. Freda Thrower. She
comes home and teaches her
three-year-old sister, Rachael,
the Hebrew and Judaica she is
learning from Berta Straz, as
well as the spelling and math.
—Roger Meyers
How Do We
Subscribe to The CJN?
Please advise when our
subscription ends so that we
may renew it. Your paper is a
quality production, deserving
of national attention. Thank
you.
—Cliff & Mary Angeroih
Rock Hill, SC
(Editor’s note: Thank you for
your kind words. There is no
subscription charge; anyone who
would like to receive our paper
just makes a request to be put on
our maiUng list. We do have a
special “CJN” fund evolved from
unsolicited donations.)
WARMER.PAVS ARf COMIN^
A Special Thank You
On behalf of my family, I
want to sincerely thank you
for the wonderful publicity
you gave the recent Ashen-
dorf/Citron Memorial Concert
in The Charlotte Jewish News.
The concert was a real suc
cess, and much of that can be
credited to the fine publicity it
received.
—Bill Ashendorf
(Editor’s note: This annual con
cert is a “special treat” and a
wonderful event that the Ashen-
dorf/Citron families present to the
community. It deserves all the
publicity The CJN can give!)
Sharing a Message
I received the following note
from our Mayor — it speaks
for itself.
. r-Irving Mond
Dear Mr. Mond:
Please accept my sincere
apology for the major schedul
ing error we made in setting
up a fund-raiser for the even
ing of October 2. Apparently
in choosing that date, our
sponsors were unaware that
this was the beginning of Yom
Kippur. In no way would we
have knowingly scheduled this
event, for I value the support
of my Jewish friends and
respect the sacredness of their
holidays.
Again, I apologize for this
oversight and I ask your
forgiveness and your con
tinued support in our effort to
serve you again as Mayor.
Sincerely,
Harvey B. Gantt
■—'.HA©
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right to edit.
Dreyfus and Le Pen
By Robert E. Segal (JTA)
It is ironic that while the
Jewish Museum of New York
is displaying a striking exhibit
dealing with the French anti-
Semitism that led to the false
imprisonment of Jewish army
officer Alfred Dreyfus at the
turn of the century, a similar
incident occurs.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, who
symbolizes much that dis
turbs the Jews of France,
recently said that Hitler’s gas
chambers may not have ex
isted, and even if they did, con
stituted a minor point in the
history of World War II.
If incipient fascism exists in
France, it is being incubated in
the French Nationed Front,
organized by the French fiery
rightwing politico Le Pen 15
years ago. Taking advantage
of the weakness of the French
economy and hoisting the ban
ner of “France for the
French”, Le Pen has reveled in
seeing support for his
xenophobic enterprise rise
from 2 percent three years ago
to 11 percent today. The only
cloud in his political sky is
that his adventure in Holo
caust revisionism has brought
some opposition within his
own ranks and solidified the
influential forces standing
against him.
The much admired and
respected Jean-Marie Cardinal
Lustiger, whose Jewish
mother died at Auschwitz,
was startled by Le Pen’s com
ment about the gas chambers
and said he was frightened by
the debasement of thought of
Le Pen and his followers “be
cause they play a role of
perversion of all generations.”
Foes of Le Pen are pleased
that the International League
Against Racism and Anti-
Semitism has brought legal ac
tion against Le Pen, with the
result that the court ordered
him to pay damages to all of
the civil rights group taking
part in the case.
Le Pen, a World War II
paratrooper, is a spellbinding
public speaker with seemingly
unlimited financial resources.
His comrades in racism ad
mire him for “saying out loud
what the French think deep
down”.
That is: Well, that
foreigners admitted to France
are an insect-like plague. That
all who oppose the National
Front are Marxists. That “For
the Socialists, it’s me or
suicide”. And aspiring to
bring all Frenchmen together
in a fasces, thus echoing the
philosophy of Mussolini.
Le Pen knows how to draw
out the worst in his mob. For
example, when the name of the
distinguished Jewish states-
woman Simone Veil, a former
President of the European
Parliament, was mentioned at
a National Front rally, the neo-
fascists shouted: “Back to
Auschwitz”. Although they
failed to mention Bergen-
Belsen, they might have, for
she suffered during the Hitler
era in both death camps.
His television tirades have
attracted an estimated 14
million. What, then, of his
future? Sardonically, in 1985,
France’s well-edited daily Le
Monde reconmiended “letting
the werewolf howl emd foam
himself into exhaustion”. This
is a dubious proposal. Recall
that a werewolf named Hitler
howled and foamed so effec
tively that he nearly con
quered Europe.
If there is hope for halting
Le Pen’s thrust to the degree
of power fmd influence to
which he aspires, it lies in part
in the fear of terrorism in
France. This trepidation has
prompted thousands of citi
zens to raise cries of outrage
as they march down Paris
streets protesting such trage
dies as the 1980 bombing of
the Rue Copemic Synagogue
and the 1985 Rivoli Beau-
bourg cinema bombing during
the Jewish Film Festival.
The shame of the Dreyfus
affair cannot be easily forgot
ten in France. Nor will that
historic, civilized nation
capitulate to the National
Front or any other group of
Hitler-admirers.