The Charlotte Jewish News - April 2010 - Page 18
Dr. Nora Rubel of the University of Rochester to Speak
on The Settlement Cook Book
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Temple Beth El’s Sisterhood
invites the women of our commu
nity to take a journey back in time
and back into the memories of
many of our childhood kitchen
experiences on Sunday, April 18
from 11 AM-12:30 PM in
Gorelick Hall at the Levine JCC.
Dr. Nora Rubel, Assistant
Professor of Religion at the
University of Rochester, who
received her PhD in 2005 from
UNC Chapel Hill will give a talk
entitled “The Settlement Cook
Book: Matzoh Balls, Lobster
Bisque, and the Transformation of
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the Jewish American Kitchen.”
This talk will examine Lizzie
Black Kander and The Way to A
Man’s Heart: The Settlement Cook
Book.
An upper-class daughter of
German Jews, Kander encouraged
Russian Jewish immigrants to
leave their particular ethnic fla
vors behind and leam to use New
World ingredients (and New
World manners). With the publica
tion of a 1901 pamphlet that went
on to become the most successful
fundraising cookbook in America,
Kander created an ideal
of Jewish American
domestic life that influ
enced generations of
women. Examining the
cookbook as an influen
tial example of Jewish
but not necessarily
Judaic material cul
ture, Dr. Rubel will dis
cuss 20th Century
Jewish Americanization through a
lens of culinary pluralism.
There will be time for questions
and for eating as members of our
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Sisterhood will be baking
Nora Rubel from a sampling of the
Cookbook recipes. Dr.
Rubel’s lecture in Charlotte has
been created in partnership with
the Charlotte Mecklenburg
Library. A
JLI to Introduce Holocaust Educational
Initiative
Timed to coincide with
Yom Hashoah Holocaust
Remembrance Day, Beyond Never
Again, a six-part course about the
Holocaust, will premiere in
Charlotte among more than 300
locations worldwide. Created by
the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute
(JLI), the world’s largest network
of adult education. Beyond Never
Again has won support from the
United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum, Yad Vashem, and more
than 100 centers and institutes
devoted to studying the Holocaust
around the world.
Envisioned as a journey into the
intense realm of meaning. Beyond
Never Again examines the univer
sal themes that the Holocaust
forces us to confront, such as the
nature of good and evil, and how
empathy and conscience may be
nurtured. The course is formulated
as a series of facilitated discus
sions that will enable participants
to articulate their personal
Jewish Learning Institute
responses to the
Holocaust, and provides
relevant angles on some
of life’s most difficult
questions pertaining to
faith and suffering.
Starting on Tuesday
April 27, 7:30 PM at
Lubavitch Educational
Center, Beyond Never Again will
run in Charlotte for six consecu
tive Tuesdays for the evening class
and is expected to draw many stu
dents to its dynamic text-based
and audio-visual classes.
Each of the students will
receive an easy to use textbook
that will accompany the class.
Course fee is $85 per person and
$150 per couple.
The course is not meant to be a
historical review of the Holocaust;
rather, it serves as a catalyst to dis
cuss the spiritual response of
many individual survivors to the
events of the Holocaust.
The Jewish Learning Institute
(JLI) is the adult education
arm of Chabad-Lubavitch.
Now based in almost 300
cities nationwide, as well as
Australia, Belgium, Canada,
Colombia, Denmark,
Finland, Holland, South
Africa, Sweden, United
Kingdom, and Venezuela,
JLI’s classes and programs have
been attended by nearly 150,000
people since its creation in 1998.
Every course offered by JLI is
offered concurrently in all world
wide affiliate locations. This
unique feature has created a true
global learning community. Please
visit www.myjli.com for up-to-
the-minute information about
Beyond Never Again.
The JLI courses presented in
Charlotte are part of the many
educational programs offered by
Lubavitch of North Carolina and
Congregation Ohr HaTorah. For
more information please visit our
website at chabadnc.org. A
Concert Pianist to Perform at Lag
B’Omer Festival in the Park
Lag B’Omer is a holiday which
dates back to Talmudic times and
is celebrated today by experienc
ing the outdoors with fun and
games. Congregation Ohr HaTorah
will be hosting a Lag B’Omer
Festival in the Park on Sunday,
May 2, at William R. Davie Park,
which is located at 4635 Pineville-
Matthews Road, between the
Arboretum and Rea Road. This
event is open to the entire Jewish
community of Charlotte.
The celebration is scheduled to
begin at 4:30 PM and will feature
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Arboretum
Lake Norman
Jewish and Israeli music played by
the renowned pianist, Gershon
Wachtel. Gershon is a Toronto-
based virtuoso pianist, whose
repertoire includes a broad range
of classical, Jewish, and Broadway
music. He was the pianist chosen
to accompany the US Women’s
Gymnastic Team in the 1976 and
1980 Olympics. He has a degree in
music from Fredonia State
University and has toured the US
and Europe, performing concerts
in most large cities over the past 30
years. He has appeared on CBC
Radio a number of times, as well
as NBC TV and CBS Radio.
Recently he appeared in
Parliament in Ottawa, Canada to
perform the Canadian National
Anthem before a full house.
A delicious kosher barbeque
will be served in the air-condi
tioned indoor conference center at
Davie Park. After dinner, everyone
will go outdoors for an open-air
concert with Gershon Wachtel.
Bring your blankets or beach
chairs so you can enjoy the music
with the cool breeze in the spirit of
Lag B’Omer. There will be a nom
inal charge of $15 per person and
$36 per family to help defray the
cost of the event.
According to Jewish tradition.
Lag B’Omer was the day on which
Pianist Gershon Wachtel
a major epidemic that afflicted the
disciples of Rabbi Akiva in the
days of the Talmud ended. The
jubilation carries on even today as
we reflect on the major impact it
had on Jewish life in Israel. Lag
B’Omer also marks the anniver
sary of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai’s
ascension to heaven. Rabbi
Shimon is most famous and
revered in the Talmud as one of the
greatest leaders of the Jews in the
harsh days of the Roman occupa
tion of Israel.
The Zohar writes that Rabbi
Shimon assembled his closest dis
ciples on Lag B’Omer and taught
them the secrets of Kabbalah. A
fiery pillar surrounded him as he
uttered the word “life” and his soul
ascended upwards with the fire. It
is a well-accepted tradition to light
bonfires all over Israel. Many
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