The Charlotte Jewish News - April 2010 - Page 5
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By Dana Kapustin and Hadas
Kasher, Co-Chairs, Yom
Hazikaron/Yom Ha ’atzmaut
Committee
We want to take a moment to
invite you to participate in two
very important events with us.
Together as one large family,
along with our brothers and sis
ters in Israel and around the
world, we will remember and
celebrate. We all appreciate the
fact that we have a Jewish
homeland, but it came with a
price. Over the last 62 years,
Israelis and Jews from around
the world have lost their lives
for the Jewish State, to
ensure that we have a
Jewish homeland.
Israel’s Memorial Day
(Yom Ha’Zikaron) is
devoted to the memory
of those who have given
their lives so the State of
Israel can exist today. On
Sunday April 18, at 1 PM
we will remember this
sacrifice. On Memorial
Day in Israel, Israelis participate
in ceremonies during which the
names of the fallen are read,
prayers are said, and songs are
sung. Ceremonies take place in
schools, memorial sites and
cemeteries. Here in Charlotte,
we will do the same. In addition,
we hope that by hearing person
al stories from members of our
community, you will feel more
connected to Jews around the
world and in Israel. At the very
same moment you will be united
with Jews worldwide. We will
unite to remember the sacrifice,
and the price of a Jewish home
land. Following this day of
remembrance will be a day of
celebration.
Israel’s Independence Day
(Yom HaAtzmaut) begins the
minute Israel’s Memorial Day
ends, and the switch from sor
row to joy is quite sudden and
dramatic. Israel’s Independence
Day is celebrated each year on 5
lyar, which corresponds to May
14, 1948, the day that the State
of Israel was proclaimed. On the
eve of Israel Independence Day,
there are parties, singing and
Pardes Rock
dancing on the sfreets, and fire
works. Here in Charlotte, on
Tuesday, April 20, we will expe
rience Israel with music, Israeli
dancing, Israeli exhibits and
fun. Pardes Rock, an amazing
Jewish rock band from Florida,
will entertain us. It will be a fab
ulous party, and we hope you
will join us. (6 PM Israeli food
and exhibits/7 PM concert by
Pardes Rock).
We want to invite you to
share these very special days
with your Charlotte Jewish
Women’s News
The Humanitarian
Response to Worldwide
Tragedies
nurses.
By Bunny Bramson, president,
Charlotte Chapter of Hadassah
Israeli and Hadassah medical
personnel - physicians
technicians - response
to the horrific crisis in
Haiti, following an
earthquake which dev
astated an already des
perately poor nation,
was not unexpected.
The history of Israel
since 1948 has been a
primer of humanitarian
action and reaction to
crises leveled on humanity.
As we scroll back to the 20th
century, we look at a very few of
the ethical responses to human
needs:
“Operation Moses” evacuated
over 7,000 Ethiopian Jews to
Israel. Youth Aliyah created and
adapted special pro
grams to help them
adjust and thrive. In
Kenya, HMO surgeons
in the early 1990s gave
sight through eye surgery
to hundreds, many for
the first time. Also, in the
1990s, Hadassah created
special retraining pro
Bunny Bramson
SAH
grams for thousands of newly
arriving in Israel, Soviet Jews.
Indeed the National Board
voted an additional $ 1 million for
HMO, Young Judaea, and
other emergency pro
grams.
In the mid-90s, a nurse,
Elsie Roth, “galvanized”
her Hadassah Nurses’
Council to spearhead a
relief drive for war rav
ished Bosnia. One hun
dred tons of supplies from
Hadassah members were
collected and delivered.
These instances of rapid and
humane response to fragedy are
but a few in our history, beginning
with the first humanitarian
response by a few women in a
new organization nearly 100 years
ago, to a Palestine plagued by dis
ease and disorder.
The fradition continues;
the response is swift and
reflexive; it defines us,
and may it never be other
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community. As one large family,
we will mourn together and cel
ebrate together. Please bring
your family and friends to these
two events. We want to encour
age you to join your Charlotte
Jewish community, together
with Jews around the world and
in Israel, as we stand together as
one big family.
See the insert in this issue of
The Charlotte Jewish News for
more information. ^
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