The Charlotte Jewish News - April 2002 - Page 5
Upcoming Young Adult
Division (YAD) Events
The goal of the Young Adult
Division (YAD) of the Jewish
Federation is to connect young
Jews to the community. YAD
embraces the Jewish values of
Tikkun 01am that we
all have a responsibil
ity to act together to
improve our world;
Tzedakah that we are
obligated to pursue
righteousness and jus
tice through acts of
loving kindness and
philanthropy; and
KTal Yisrael that we
are one people with a
shared destiny and
future.
Please join us in
April for two special events:
Thursday, April 18 - “It’s In
The Genes” - A program to learn
about Jewish genetic diseases,
7:30 PM at Temple Israel.
Thursday, April 25
“Hamburgers and Heaven: The
Role of Physical Pleasures in a
Spiritual Life,” featuring Rabbi
Yosef Edelstein of the Charlotte
Torah Center, 7:30
PM in the Family
Place at the Jewish
Community Center.
For more informa
tion, please call
Mamie Moskowitz,
Director of Program
Development, in the
Federation office at
704-944-6764.
Join the Jewish Community of Charlotte
as We Commemorate Yom Hashoah with
“Let Your Children Tell”
A Dramatic Presentation about the Holocaust as Told by
Young People
Of CteEATER Charlotte
Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 7:00
PM in Gorelick Hall at the
Sandra & Leon Levine Jewish
Community Center Building
History has many stories to tell.
Some of the most important are
those of the oppressed and oppres
sor — the Israelites in Egypt, the
Africans in America, the Blacks in
South Africa. But throughout the
history of human kind only one
story is the story of an oppressor
who attempted to wipe out an
entire population of those it
oppressed. This is that story.
So begins the new theatre docu
mentary, Let Your Children Tell,
produced and performed by the
Touring Theatre Ensemble of
North Carolina. It is the story of
what we now refer to as the
Holocaust told in the words of five
young people who experienced it.
Taken from diaries, interviews
and testimonials, these five young
people, each from German,
Czechoslovakia, Austria, The
Netherlands and Hungary, respond
to the deeds and decrees of Hitler
and his Nazis by providing inti
mate glimpses of their lives in hid
ing, in exile, in ghettos, and in
labor and concentration camps.
Portrayed by six actors, we
meet these young people as they
watched and listened and recorded
the dark deeds visited upon them.
The hope is that the story of this
darkest hour of history can be kept
alive through their telling and
thereby remind the world what
can happen when racism goes
unchecked.
For more information, contact
the Jewish Federation at 704-944-
6757.
Sponsored by Temple Beth El,
Temple Israel, the Jewish
Community Center of Charlotte
and the Jewish Federation of
Greater Charlotte. ^
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Journalist Allison Sommer Speaks on the Current Israel Situation
On March 4 and 5, the
Bernstein Leadership Group, the
staff of Shalom Park and the
Uptowners (an arm of the Jewish
Federation of Greater Charlotte
designed to involve
members of the busi
ness and professional
community) had the
opportunity to meet
and hear Allison
Sommer of The
Jerusalem Post speak.
Allison Kaplan
Sommer, a senior jour
nalist at The Jerusalem
Post, has been writing
about Israel and the
Jewish world for more
than a decade. A gradu
ate of the Columbia
School of Journalism,
she began her journalism career
covering the United Nations and
national Jewish organizations in
New York for the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, writing for
Donna Foster, Linda Joy Weinstein, and Linda
Siegel.
Of GfeEATER Charlotte
Jewish newspapers across the
country. During the Persian Gulf
Crisis in 1990, she took the job of
Washington, DC correspondent
for The Jerusalem Post, replacing
veteran correspondent Wolf
Blitzer when he moved on to work
for CNN. She has been with the
newspaper ever since, writing
about Israel-U.S. relations
throughout the Bush and Clinton
administrations and the Shamir,
Rabin, Peres, Netanyahu and
Barak governments, first from
Washington, and since 1993,
based in Tel Aviv, Israel. She has
Emily Zimmern. speaker Allison Sommer, and
Robert Weis.
Allison Sommer meets with staff members Amalia
Warshenbrot and Cynthia Chapman.
Praise for Fern Schumer Chapman’s
“Motherland”
See how the critics praise Fern
Schumer Chapman’s Motherland.
“An outstanding portrait of the
painful postwar waltz of Germans,
their victims, and their victims’
victims.” — Kirkus Reviews.
“Meticulously detailed account
...which Chapman renders with
precise and often moving prose.”
— Chicago Tribune Book Review.
“Fern Schumer Chapman’s
account of Edith Westerfield's
return to Germany half a century
after her forced exile was a finalist
in the National Jewish Book
Awards for 2000. Anyone who
reads her observations about the
remnants of anti-Semitism will
surely be moved and even out
raged.” — Dallas Morning News.
“This finalist in the 2000
National Jewish Book Awards
should have been a winner. It's
beautifully written and is so grip
ping that it is hard to put down. ...
It is a book that can be discussed
and appreciated for its literary ele
ments, its historical significance
and its depiction of a mother-
daughter relationship.” — San
Diego Jewish Press Heritage.
“Amazing ... tragic and tri
umphant ... incredibly powerful.”
Jeanette Blanco, Allison Sommer, Nina Lewis and
Andrea Cronson.
written about a wide array of top
ics, from Middle East peace and
Israeli politics, to Israel-Diaspora
relations, immigrant absorption,
the growth of the media and the
high-tech industry in
Israel, women's rights
issues, the arts, and the
challenges of Jewish
family life in the modern
world. As a reporter, she
has witnessed three his
toric events of the past
decade: wars, peace
negotiations, peace
treaty signings, and was
covering the peace rally
the night that Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin
was assassinated.
Even with all the
occurrences in Israel,
she stressed how important it is
for American- to come and sup
port Israel. Israel Now and
Forever. ^
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704-367-7223
sharon.gold@atcmail.com
— WomanLinks.com.
“Touching ... moving ... a
thoughtful analysis of modern
Germany’s relationship to its past
and, not incidentally, of the rela
tionship of a mother and daugh
ter.” — Hadassah Magazine.
Chapman will be signing copies
and speaking with the Chailotte
community at the Jewish
Federation’s 4th Annual Women’s
Division spring lecture at 7:30 PM
at Temple Beth El on May 2.
For more information on Fern
Schumer Chapman’s visit to
Charlotte, please call Mamie
Moskowitz at 704-944-6764 or
email her at mmoskowitz@shaIom-
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