The Charlotte Jewish News -March 2008 - Page 13
Newcomers
Welcome to Amy Ringold
By Chelsy Woods Klein
There are many reasons that
people are moving to Charlotte in
droves, but one of the main rea
sons is that there are more jobs
here that aren’t available in other
areas of the country. Such was the
case for this issue’s newcomer,
Amy Ringold.
Ringold, 56, moved to
Charlotte from Minnesota back in
July to work as a media specialist
at Oak Hurst Elementary School.
“I moved here for that job because
there were no jobs for teachers in
Minnesota,” Ringold said.
Ringold was recently laid off from
her teaching job in Minnesota and
she knew that if she wanted to find
another job she had to look for one
where the economy wasn’t so
depressed, plus she was sick of the
snowy winters in Minnesota -
Charlotte fit the bill.
Once Ringold moved to
Charlotte she made it a priority to
find the Jewish community and
become involved. She is a mem-
Kindertransport: A Rarely
Told Chapter of the Shoah
Sunday, May 4, 2008 ~ 29
Nissan, 5768
Meredith College, Jones
Auditorium
3800 Hillsborough Street,
Raleigh, NC
Admission Free; all are invited.
1:15-2:45 PM — Panel discus
sion: Being a Kindertransport
Child with David Ross and Esther
Starobin, former Kindertransport
children.
Student Art Exhibit: The
Kindertransport Journey —
Memory into History. Traveling
Poster Exhibit.
3-4:30 PM — Commemoration
Ceremony with Esther Starobin,
UNC Asheville Presents
Aviv String Quartet
The Aviv String
Quartet will take center
stage at 8 PM Wednesday,
March 26, at UNC
Asheville’s Lipinsky
Auditorium. The per
formance by the award
winning group is part of
the University’s year
long Cultural and Special
Events Series.
Aviv String Quartet
performs annually as the
resident quartet at the
Upper Galilee Chamber
Music Festival at Kfar Blum, as
well as major venues throughout
Israel. These accomplished per
formers have made their mark at
the Wigmore Hall in London; the
Auditorium du Louvre, Theatre de
Ville and Theatre du Chatelet in
Paris; Carnegie Hall in New York;
and the Library of Congress and
Kennedy Center in Washington,
D.C. Appearing at notable festi
vals worldwide, the Aviv String
Quartet participated in the
Amadeus Quartet summer course
at the Royal Academy of Music in
London and represented Israel at
1998 Encounters chamber music
course in Jerusalem under the
direction of Isaac Stem and with
members of the Emerson and
Juilliard Quartets.
Co-sponsors for the perform
ance include UNC Asheville’s
Center for Jewish Studies and the
Deutsch family, in memory of
Alfred and Bernice Deutsch.
Concert proceeds will benefit
Amy Ringold
ber of the Temple Israel choir,
Hadassah and was one of the cast
members of Seussical the Musical.
But despite being active in the
community, it has been tough for
Ringold to find and make friends.
“I’m an odd person, being 56 and
single,” said Ringold. She has
been seeking people to spend
Shabbes with, but so far she has
been lighting the Shabbat candles
by herself, which makes her
homesick, but not for Minnesota’s
weather.
“When I lived in Minnesota I
had people I could call, granted, I
lived there for ten years. I don’t
know how long it took before it
was home, but Charlotte is not
home,” said Ringold. Perhaps not
yet.
When asked what advice she
would give someone considering
Charlotte, Ringold said, “Don’t be
afiraid to do it. Keep an open mind.
Explore what you can explore and
enjoy what you’re doing here.” ^
Chelsy Klein is a contributing
writer to The Charlotte Jewish
News. If you would like to be fea
tured as a newcomer in future
issues, please contact her at chel-
sywklein@yahoo.com.
NEWCOMERS
former Kindertransport child,
featured speaker.
Candle Lighting by Holocaust
Survivors
Remarks by Government and
Religious Leaders
Holocaust-Related Music and
Dance Performances
The annual State of North
Carolina Holocaust
Commemoration is sponsored by
the North Carolina Council on the
Holocaust, an agency of North
Carolina Department of Public
Instmction www.ncpublic-
schools.org/holocaust_council/.
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newcomer to
Charlotte?
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have been here less than a year
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Please call 704-944-6765 if you
or someone you know would
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Aviv String Quartet
UNC Asheville’s Center for
Jewish Studies.
General admission tickets are
$18 or $6 for all area students. To
reserve tickets by phone, call
UNC Asheville’s Highsmith
University Union Box Office at
828-232-5000. Tickets may also
be purchased online at
www.uncatickets.com. For infor
mation about purchasing group
tickets, call 828-251-6991.
For more information on this or
other events in UNC Asheville’s
Cultural & Special Events season,
call 828-251-6991 or click on
www.unca.edu/culturalarts/.
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