The Charlotte Jewish News - September 2009 - Page 12
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Why The Charlotte Torah Center is
Important to Our Community
By Ellen Engelhardt, co-director,
CTC
What are the criteria by which
you measure the reality of God’s
existence? What does the Torah
have to say about how you should
live as a Jew that is relevant to
your life in the modem age?
With these questions, I may
have lost half my readers. To the
rest of you, thanks for sticking
with me.
Being bombarded unexpectedly
with matters of Torah, it is perfect
ly understandable why one would
move on to other articles of inter
est. Questions of this kind weigh
down the speed in which we are
accustomed to thinking and
resolving problems, and they bur
den us with what may appear irrel
evant to our day-to-day living,
which is challenging enough. Yet,
these questions, and others like
them, should be asked precisely
because they do matter to our
daily lives. Jews choosing to study
Torah matter because it sustained
our people for thousands of years.
Jews choosing not to study Torah
matter because it begs the question
“What will sustain us now?”
As co-director of the Charlotte
Torah Center, I often hear the
question, “What goes on at the
CTC?” “Isn’t it a synagogue?”
Here’s the answer: The Charlotte
Torah Center is a non-profit
organization dedicated to provid
ing Jewish education to all Jews
from all walks of life. On Shabbat
mornings. Rabbi Oppenheim
gives his “72 Minute Learners
Service” where the basics of the
service structure are explained,
where questions are taken from
the student “congregants,” and the
purpose of every prayer, davening
gesture, silence and song are con
sidered. I have yet to leave a “72
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Faithful
Celebrate
Temple’s
125 Years
By Bethany Fuller, Statesville
R&L
Dancing the hora during the
middle of a Shabbat service was a
little unorthodox, but a couple
members of Congregation
Emanuel did just that during the
temple’s 125th anniversary service
on June 12.
“It’s a celebration,” Rabbi
Aaron Philmus said while guiding
the group around the room.
There was plenty to celebrate as
the group recounted the history of
Statesville’s oldest house of wor
ship. The conservative congrega
tion was originally organized as a
Reform group in the home of roots
and herb merchant Isaac Wallace
in August of 1883.
The congregation celebrated its
faith and the longevity of its spiri
tual union by planting a red dog
wood by the front door on North
Kelly Street.
“God has been with us for 125
years,” Philmus said.
Planting a tree to mark special
occasions is a Jewish tradition that
is written in many texts, Philmus
said. The act represents putting
down roots in an area and the ded
ication to continue to grow.
The temple and its congrega
tion has experienced many highs
and lows during its history, includ
ing the 34 years from 1920-1954
when it became dormant during
the the two World Wars and
Prohibition.
In the 1950s, a resurgence of
Jewish life in Statesville created
by the post-war baby boom and
the growth of the textile industry
brought in new members, who
helped revive the congregation.
Philmus told the congregation
that when he was in the temple
alone sometimes, he could feel the
presence of everyone who wor
shiped there before him.
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