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The Charlotte Jewish News -September 2001 - Page 3 Of GbEATER CHARLOrTE Federation News Of GteEATER Charlotte The Jewish Dream By Scott Gorelick and Sue Littauer Scott Gorelick, Co- Chair of the Men’s Division, and Sue Littauer, Campaign Director of the Jewish Federation, have just returned from a United Jewish Communities Mission to the Former Soviet Union and to Israel. The ten-day trip Scott Gorelick, Misha, Masha, and Sue Littauer. was filled with unforget table moments and memories that they plan to share with you on an installment basis over the next few months. This is their first entry. The Jewish Dream is not about freshly painted houses and white picket fences. It’s about working hard to make sure there is a flour ishing Jewish community in every comer of the world where there are Jews. We just returned from Kharkov (“har-kov”), the second largest city in the Ukraine, a city of 1.8 million people with 50,000 Jews. Our mission to Kharkov was a “Modem Jewish Miracle” when you consider that Kharkov had a thriving Jewish community of 130.000 Jews (10% of Kharkov’s population) on the eve of the Holocaust. After the Holocaust, fewer than 1,000 Jews were left alive. Outside of Kharkov, we visited a summer camp funded by JAFI, the Jewish Agency for Israel, which is funded by our federation dollars. As our bus pulled into the camp, over 150 children were lined up along the drive waving Israeli flags and singing Shalom Aleichem. After having just visited Drobitsky Yar, a memorial to the 16.000 Jews of Kharkov murdered by the Nazis and left in two huge ravines, we were stmck by the joyous welcome we received from these beautiful children. As we walked the death march to Drobitsky Yar, microphones echoed the names of the executed Jews, including children with last names like ours, children the ages of our own children, children who did not have the opportunity to attend summer camps either in Kharkov or at our own Camp Mindy. As we stepped off the bus at summer camp, our spirits soared as we each took the hand of our “child for the day,” Masha with Scott, Misha with Sue. Our gifts to the kids of Polaroid photos and sil ver magen david necklaces, keep sakes of a very special day, pro duced big smiles. We had no lan guage in common, but through the music universal to Jews all over the world, we were able to com municate as we danced and sang together. These children were just like our own children, and we con nected with Masha and Misha on a very personal level. If only there were sufficient funds available to allow each child more than one week of camp. Later in Israel, we would expe rience other summer camps, one for Ethiopian children, and anoth er for children in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo. The sum mer camp experience is really the same all over the world - just kids having fun, learning about their Jewish identity, developing friend ships. As we left Misha and Masha, the hugs and thanks they gave us were so warm and so deli cious. When we recall those hugs, we think about what the federation is able to do for Jewish children all over the world. This is part of the Jewish Dream, for which we will work fervently to insure that it reaches every Jewish child in every comer of the world. 0 2002 Women’s Cabinet Formed Alison Lerner to Serve 2nd Term as Women’s Division President As the summer comes to a close, the Women’s Cabinet is already meeting to plan activ ities for the upcoming year. 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