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The Charlotte Jewish News - June-July 2010- Page 23 ( Mazel Tov & Congratulations Anna Bobrow Awarded Morehead-Cain Scholarship Anna Bobrow, daughter of Barry Bobrow and Karen Knoble, has been selected as a Morehead- Cain Scholar The Morehead-Cain provides a full four-year scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that includes an annu al stipend covering full tuition, student fees, housing, meals, books, supplies, and travel; a lap top computer; a fully funded, four-time Summer Enrichment Program beginning the summer before the freshman year; and Discovery Fund grants of up to $8,000 over the course of four years at Carolina to be used for educational opportunities. The Morehead-Cain scholarship is awarded annually to seventy stu dents around the world based on criteria of moral force of charac ter, scholarship, physical vigor, and leadership. Anna is a senior at Providence Day School, where she is among the top students in her graduating class. Anna is Editor-in-Chief of the Charger student newspaper, a four-time member of the Honor Council, and a member of the Student Government Association. She earned Varsity letters in both swimming and softball for four years, and she is currently Captain of the Varsity Softball team. In May 2009, Anna earned her Girl Scout Gold Award. For her Gold Award project, Anna worked with Jewish senior adults in Assisted Living Centers and high school students living around Charlotte, creating inter-generational bridges based on mutual interests and con cerns. As part of the Morehead-Cain Scholarship, Anna will travel this summer on a month-long NOLS course. She intends to study journalism and history at Chapel Hill. ^ ENGAGEMENT Shelton and Ellen Goldstein are happy to announce the engage ment of their son Craig to Michal Wolf. Michal is the daughter of Shlomo and Annie Wolf of Muiderber, the Netherlands, and granddaughter of Prosper and Odile Hayon of Paris, France. Craig is the grandson of Margi Goldstein and the late Julius Goldstein of Charlotte and Geraldine Ashkenazie of Atlanta. Craig and Michal met in Jerusalem at Ulpan in the summer of 2009 when they both made Aliyah. They now live in Tel Aviv and plan a fall wedding in Israel. Youth Visions J Serve - National Day of Service for Jewish Teens J Serve is the national day of Jewish service that provides teens with the opportunity to fulfill the Jewish values of Gemilut Chasidim (acts of loving kind ness), Tzedakah (charity), and Tikkun 01am (repairing the world). Across the globe, all on one day, teens joined each other to make their community and their world a better place. On April 18 in Charlotte, teens from Hebrew High, BBYO, JCC, Liberty and USY came together to beautify Park Road Park. Fifty four young people spent a beauti ful Sunday afternoon raking, bag ging and mulching. It was hard work, as the group filled hun dreds of bags and spread enor mous amounts of mulch. Despite allergic reactions and the heat, the Jewish yard crew was glad to lend a hand to beautify Charlotte and represent our Jewish commu nity. ^ Register Now for Hebrew High 2010-11 CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES OF CHARLOTTE CSE) student registration form 2010-2011 XjinT* Please return to our office or mail box at the JCC - NOT Temple Beth El or Temple Israel ff.DFFWTIONj; Student Name Student Address (city, state, zip) Phone Numbers Student Parent Home Cell Cell Date of Birth School Attending and Grade Entering Mother’s Name Father’s Name Temple Affiliation Parents’ address if different from student or you require documents sent to two households Parents’ Email Student’s Email Shalom Park can use my email address Yes No Are there any special medical concerns - allergies, medications, etc. Yes No (Please describe on another sheet of paper) Does your child receive any special education services at school? Yes No (Please describe on another sheet of paper) Does your child have an lEP (Individual Education Plan) at his/her school? Would you provide us with a copy of the lEP? Yes No (Please describe on another sheet of paper) Please join the PTO. Enclose a check for $25 with your registration!!! Yes No Tuition for Heb Tuition includes fees fc Please call Hebrew High, if payment in full is Phone: 704-944-6782 rcooper@sha 5007 Providence Rd. Suite 108, Charlotte rew High 2010-2011: $425 r retreats, art class, cooking class, etc. not included with this application, for payment arrangements louicharloHe.oru ,—. 1 1 We are members in good standing at our Temple , INC lollo 1—1 Hebrew High students have fun dancing and singing with “The Shuk,” an Israeli band that came to play for us. • vn Lr. : “I Am Jewish” By Jamie Bryan The goal of our class sessions was to explore what saying “I am Jewish!” means to each one of us and how it may be very different. We explored this by focusing on the book, I Am Jewish, compiled by the family of Daniel Pearl. Daniel Pearl was a Wall Street Journal journalist kidnapped and eventually murdered in Pakistan. Taking from his final words before he was brutally murdered by his captors, we were able to explore our Judaism by discussing what many famous and regular, every day Jews feel about what being Jewish means to them. After look ing at heritage, ethnicity, covenants and chosen-ness, and other topics, each student wrote what being Jewish means to them. Here are some of their composi tions: / believe what makes me Jewish is that I come from a Jewish fami ly, attend services once in a while, and participate in Jewish youth programs. I think that coming from a Jewish family doesn’t give me much of a choice. But once I am old enough to make a choice for myself, I will still stay with Judaism because that’s what makes me unique. Even though I don’t always attend services, I still attend every once in a while. When I do attend services I make an attempt to sing along to what I can. I do try to get the most from the service as I can and gain from the communal feel- When I attend Jewish youth programs such as BBYO, LIBER TY, and NFTYI feel that there are a lot of others like me. I enjoy meeting other Jews because there are not a lot of Jews my age. I believe my heritage, covenants, ethnicity, and identity is what makes me Jewish. For me, being Jewish is perma nent. If you are married to a non- Jew and have non-Jewish chil dren, you are still a Jew. Once a Jew, always a Jew. Some Jews are just more [traditional] than oth ers. Take the Jew who goes to tem ple every Friday and Saturday, keeps kosher, and raises an all- Jewish family. Now consider the Jew that fasts on holidays and goes to temple a couple of times a year. They are equally Jewish; they just express it in different ways. Even if you convert to another religion, there is always going to be a piece of Judaism inside of you. Not everyone can afford to be super [observant] either. For example, imagine a homeless man. He can’t afford a tallit, Shabbat candles, or a Kiddush cup. Instead, he substi tutes with a frayed towel, a small fire, and a plastic cup. His spirit is still in his Judaism, and he is mak ing do with what he has. This makes him just as religious as the rich man who can afford the previ ously mentioned materials. No matter where you go in life, Judaism will always be there for you. ^
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