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April 2011
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An Affiliate of the Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte
13th Annual Women Sprint Lecture
Jill Zarin, Lisa Wexler, and Gloria Kamen to Headline at Spring Lectnre
attending the Spring Leeture will
assist us in our efforts to raise
$2,950,000 for our 2011 Annual
Campaign. The money raised by
the Federation Annual Campaign
enables the Jewish Federation to
make a differenee everyday in the
lives of millions of people in
Charlotte, in Israel and in seventy
eountries around the world. The
eampaign dollars provide finaneial
support for programs that feed the
hungry, eare for the elderly, edu-
eate the young, provide assistanee
for the troubled, and intervene on
behalf of families in distress who
are unable to meet their basie
needs.
For more information or to pur-
ehase tiekets, please visit the
Federation website at www.jew-
isheharlotte.org or eall 704-944-
6757. «
The 13th Annual Women’s
Spring Leeture, presented by the
Jewish Federation of Greater
Charlotte’s Women’s Division,
will take plaee Thursday, April 28
in the Sandra and Leon Levine
Soeial Hall at Temple Israel. Guest
Speakers are Jill Zarin, of Bravo’s
“The Real Housewives of New
York City”; her sister Lisa Wexler,
attorney and award winning daily
radio show host; and their mother
Gloria Kamen. The three women
are authors of Secrets of a Jewish
Mother.
The Spring Leeture is the
Women’s Division largest eam
paign and outreaeh event. Jill
Halverstam and Aviva Stein, are
eo-ehairs of the Spring Leeture
and eommittee members are Amy
Augustine, Fern Ingber Epley, Jill
Dinerman, Debbie Freedman,
Donna Greenspon, Randi Lan,
Roz Snyder, Liz Winer and Robin
Zimmerman.
The event’s eorporate sponsors
are Melanie Rowe Catering and
Piedmont Plastie Surgery and
Dermatology. Additional sponsors
are Charlotte Radiology, Lowe’s
Foods, REACH (Reproduetion
Endoerinology Assoeiates of
Charlotte), and Guliani’s Fine
Jewelry.
Jill Zarin is one of the stars of
the hit Bravo series “The Real
Housewives of New York City.”
Known for her devotion to philan
thropy, efferveseent personality,
great personal style and dedieation
to her family, Jill has beeome one
of the most dynamie personalities
to emerge from reality television.
Bom and raised in Woodmere,
NY, Jill graduated from Simmons
College Sehool of Retail
Management. She began her
eareer as an assistant buyer at
Filene’s and grew to beeome the
national sales manager/viee presi
dent of Great Ameriean Knitting
Mills. Jill eurrently works with her
husband Bobby Zarin, owner of
Zarin Fabrie as senior viee presi
dent of sales and marketing. Jill is
eurrently developing a home bed
ding line that will be sold in major
retailers aeross the eountry. She is
also the Brand Spokesperson for
Kodak. Jill lives in New York City
with her husband, Bobby, daugh
ter Allyson and dog Ginger.
Lisa Wexler is the ereator and
host of the award-winning talk
radio program The Lisa Wexler
Show, broadeasting in the
Fairfield County, CT/Metro NY
areas from 4-6 PM weekdays on
Coxradio’sAM 1400 WSTC/1350
WNLK. She is the winner of the
2010 “Graeie” Award for her inter
view with Gloria Steinem and was
awarded the title “2009 Gold
Coast Best Radio Personality”
based on a reader survey. She is a
graduate of The Johns Hopkins
University and the New York
University Sehool of Law. Lisa
Wexler has been married for 28
years to her husband. Bill Wexler,
is the mother of two ehildren and
shares her pillow with her beloved
biehon. Sugar.
Lisa has served on the Board
of Direetors of two Jewish
Community Centers as well as her
synagogue. Lisa is on the Board of
the Jeffrey Modell Foundation
for Primary Immunodefieieney
Researeh and the Advisory Board
of Jane Doe No More.
Gloria Kamen was the surprise
hit of “Real Housewives” season
two. When season three premiered
in Mareh 2010, she began writing
her “Ask Gloria” adviee eolumn
found on BravoTV.eom. Gloria
lives in Boea Raton, FL.
THANK YOU TO OUR
SPRING LECTURE
SPONSORS:
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Piedmont Plastic Surgery
Dermatology
The evening will begin with
dinner at 6:15 PM in the Sandra
and Leon Levine Soeial Hall; the
leeture will take plaee at 8 PM in
the temple sanetuary. A dessert
reeeption and book signing will
follow the program.
Spring Leeture tiekets are $40
for the Dinner and Leeture, or $18
for the Leeture Only. A minimum
pledge of $50 from eaeh woman
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By Amy Krakovitz
“The last, the very last
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly
yellow. ...”
Pavel Friedman’s words about
living in the ghetto - the butter
flies had all disappeared. Not long
after that, Pavel himself disap
peared, along with 1.5 million
other ehildren, all murdered in the
Holoeaust.
Fast forward to San Diego in
2006, the San Diego Jewish
Aeademy ereated a projeet for stu
dents that would edueate them
about the Holoeaust. The message
of Friedman’s butterfly poem
inspired the idea of ereating 1.5
million eeramie butterflies. Eaeh
butterfly would represent a ehild
that perished in the Holoeaust, and
the final ereations would be dis
played in publie.
“... Perhaps if the sun’s tears
would sing
Against a white stone ...”
A million and a half butterflies
is a daunting task, even for a eom-
munity the size of San Diego. So
the projeet expanded to other eom-
munities and in 2009, volunteers
Wilma Asrael, Barbara Ziegler,
and Gwen Orland eommitted to
ereating 2,000 eeramie butterflies
in Charlotte, NC. The projeet
beeame headquartered in the
eeramies studio at the Levine JCC,
but other ageneies in Shalom Park
baeked the projeet.
Volunteers were eneouraged to
eome to the eeramies studio to ere-
ate and paint a butterfly. Many
people from the eommunity
answered the eall and ereated their
own butterfly in the name of a lost
ehild. But more than bringing
attention to this among our own
eommunity, it was important to
the volunteers that this projeet be
used as a way of edueating the
eommunity at large.
The Butterfly Projeet was
brought into the sehools, ehurehes
and eommunity organizations, and
ineorporated as a part of the
Holoeaust eurrieulum. Eaeh stu
dent or partieipant paints a eeram
ie butterfly and reeeives a eertifi-
eate with the name of a ehild who
died in the Holoeaust. To see
exaetly how the butterfly work
shops have affeeted students in the
loeal sehools, go to www.eharlot-
tejee.org and eliek on “The
Butterfly Projeet” button on the
left. There you ean view a video
made by more volunteers, Glenn
Fishkin, Morry Alter, and Steve
Kahn.
“... Such, such a yellow
Is carried lightly, ‘way up
high. ...”
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