The Charlotte Jewish News - September 2007 - Page 5
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Domestic Abuse Organization Gets a New Name
Shalom Bayit-NC - “Peace in
the Home”- is the new name for
what was formerly Jews against
Domestic Violence. The all-volun
teer group, now in its second year,
is working with Jewish organiza
tions in Charlotte-Mecklenburg
County to raise awareness, offer
support services, and foster
change necessary to end domestic
abuse in the Jewish community.
“The Jewish ethic ‘shalom
bayit’ has come to imply that
abuse does not exist in the Jewish
home, and if there is discord it is
the woman’s fault,” said Marsha
Stickler of Shalom Bayit-NC.
“Many women feel that to ask for
help is to bring shame on their
families and their Jewish commu
nity, and indeed many have felt a
backlash of resentment and disbe
lief,” she explained.
“We hope that our new name
will spread a new message - not
of keeping the family together at
all costs, but of the right to true
peace and sanctuary in the lives of
Jewish women and children,” Ms.
Stickler concluded.
Domestic abuse is probably the
most hidden and ignored problem
in the Jewish community.
According to recent studies, more
than 20% of Jewish families are
experiencing domestic abuse at
any one point in time. Yet, Jewish
women are among the least likely
to seek help and take longer than
most women to leave the abusive
partner.
To learn what you can do to end
domestic abuse or for further
information on Shalom Bayit
email info@shalombayit-nc.org.
The Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish
Community
By Richard J. Osborne
As I begin my second and final
year as chair of the Foundation for
the Charlotte Jewish Community,
1 see great progress. As of June 30,
2007, the Foundation reports $39
million in assets. Those are assets
donated by individuals in the
Jewish community to benefit a
wide array of organizations- local
agencies like the synagogues or
JCC; the Federation; Shalom
Park; and a good number of
organizations providing social and
cultural services to the general
.community. In 2006, over $1.4
million in grants were made to
Jewish organizations throughout
the community. The $39 million
will enable gifts of more than $2
million during the next twelve
months.
Today we have a great opportu
nity to do still more. Our first full
time executive, Phil Warshauer, is
able to support more initiatives for
new gifts while still providing
proper “care and feeding” for the
$39 million already in place. Our
partnership with the Foundation
for the Carolinas enables the
Foundation for the Charlotte
Jewish Community to offer state
of the arts administrative and
money management services at
prices typically available to only
the largest donors.
We are launching a Book of
Life Society to recognize those
who have made provisions in their
wills or estate plans to bequest
funds to one or more agencies
serving the Jewish community.
These provisions can be of any
amount. Several Jewish communi
ties, notably New Orleans and
Toronto, have generated real
excitement around Book of Life
societies, and our co-chairs,
Margie Goldstein and Jill
Newman, will be examining what
has worked elsewhere as part of
their effort to shape and launch a
successful society in Charlotte.
You will be hearing more about
this in the months to come.
Finally, we continue to see
more people establishing donor
advised funds to make their chari
table giving easier. Anyone can
establish his or her own donor
advised fund at the Foundation for
the Charlotte Jewish Community.
It is a great way to manage all
your philanthropic giving and pro
vides the equivalent of a philan
thropic bank account. You can
donate cash or securities to it at
any time, and the donation consti
tutes a tax deductible contribution
to the Foundation at the time of
the gift. The donor then can initi
ate consideration of a gift either
online or with a written request.
This grant can take place in the
same or subsequent tax years. For
agencies and charities with which
the Foundation is familiar- and we
are familiar with most of the
important Jewish organizations- a
recommendation for a gift can be
processed and a check dispatched
to the agency specified within a
matter of days. If a donor recom
mends a gift to an agency with
which the Foundation lacks expe
rience, it takes a week or so to
confirm that the agency is a quali
fied, tax-exempt recipient, and
then the agency is added to the
catalog of known recipients, and
the check is dispatched.
This tool gives a donor great
flexibility in that he or she can
, Foundation
for the
^Charlotte Jewish
.Community
easily donate appreciated stock
and receives full credit for the gift,
never having paid the capital gains
tax. It enables donors to better
time their tax deductible dona
tions and to separately advise the
distribution of those donations
among charities and qualified
agencies. Donor advised can be
established through Foundation
for the Charlotte Jewish
Community for individuals mak
ing gifts of $10,000, and recom
mendations for disbursements
may be for amounts of as little as
$250. Donors receive confiden
tial, quarterly reports on their
funds and specific reports during
each quarter on any donations or
disbursements.
A donor advised fund is just a
tool to help manage your charita
ble contributions. The Foundation
for the Charlotte Jewish
Community provides tools so that
you can make your charitable
activities - your tzedakah - go fur
ther, more efficiently. This is a
classic “win-win” and 1 hope you
will take full advantage of it.
Rich Osborne is the Board
Chair for the Foundation for the
Charlotte Jewish Community. For
more information or questions
please contact Phil Warshauer,
Director for Planned Giving, at
704-973-4544 or pwarshauer@
Jftc.org.^
JCC
New Jewish Wall of Fame Tributes
Exhibit in the Levine JCC
Question: What do King
Herod, Moshe Safdie, Frank
Gehry, and Rose and Abraham
Luski have in common?
Answer: They all appear on the
new Jewish Wall of Fame exhibit,
entitled “Jews in Architecture.”
The Luskis are the sponsors of
this display, while Herod, Safdie,
and Gehry are three of the six
Jewish architects featured, whose
works include the Second Temple
in Jerusalem and Masada, the Yad
Vashhem Museum in Jerusalem
and Habitat 67, and the
Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao,
Spain. Come read about these
notable Jews and see examples of
their work. Many thanks to our
generous sponsors, Rose and
Abraham Luski.
Donating an Old Cell Phone Can Save a Life
Temple Beth El, the Jewish Community Center, and Jewish
Family Services, in conjunction with the North Carolina Women’s
Commission, are now collecting cell phones for victims - or
potential victims - of domestic violence. Old, used and TOwanted
cel! phones will be reprogrammed to call 911 and used in the
event of an emergency. Simply bring them to any of these organi
zations’ offices for collection. For more infonnation contact
info@shalombayit-nc.org.
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