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The Charlotte Jewish News - June-July 2012 - Page 12 Levine JCC’s Distinctive Member Event at The Foundation for the Carolinas The venue for this year’s Distinetive Member Event on Tuesday, April 24, was The Foundation for the Carolinas. This beautiful and unique setting was the perfeet baekdrop to express our gratitude to our philanthropie members for their generosity and eommitment to the Levine JCC. The evening began with hors d’ oeuvres along with seleeted wines provided by Poreupine Provisions. Our guests were able to mingle, getting to know long standing, new and prospeetive members of this speeial program. The event was greatly enhaneed by the magnifieent art on dis play throughout the Luski - Goreliek Center for Philanthropy. These extensive eolleetions are made possible by families ineluding the Luskis, the Gorelieks, the Skints and of eourse, Sandra and Leon Levine, among other prominent representatives of the Charlotte business eom- munity. The Levine JCC Distinetive Member Program is one that allows our members to help pro vide seholarships for the many families that eould not otherwise Honor • Celebrate • Embrace Save the Date Annual Memorial Service Sunday, Sept. 23, 10:30am Judy August and Philip Berman afford to be a part of our JCC fam ily. There are various levels of the program, eaeh eontribution toueh- ing a family and truly making a differenee in their lives. Alison Lemer, Chairperson, spoke fondly of all that the “J” has meant to her sinee she was a ehild growing up on Charlotte, partieipating in vari ous programs here and even meet Steven Cohen, Isaae Luski, Moses Luski, David Cohen ing her husband Mark on the StairMaster 19 years ago. Alison remains an aetive leader in our eom- munity and eneour- aged us all to remember how important it is for us to provide for those around us in need. David Van Glish, President of the Levine JCC Board of Direetors, introdueed Issae Luski, whose generosity and vision along with his wife Sonia, as well as Patty and Bill Goreliek, have made possible the new Luski- Goreliek Center for Philanthropy whieh opened last year. David indieated that he hoped that the passion and eommitment that was elearly evident by their wonderful example will inspire us all to eon- tinue to make Tzedakah a part of eaeh of our lives - ensuring the build ing of a strong eom- munity for future generations. If you would like more information about The Levine Jewish Community Alison Lernen Mark Lerner, Russell Hughes (in baek- ground profile), David Van Glish, Miehael Baumstein Center Distinetive Member Cirele, please eontaet Karen Maniloff at 704-944-6801 or karen.maniloff@eharlottejee. org.^ Kim Wojnowieh Baha’i Woman Finds Freedom in U.S. Sandra Goldman, Director 704.576.1859 |( Hebrew Cemetery hebrewcemetery.org Of Greater Charlotte Providonce Road • Suite 105 Charlotte NC 28226 By Karen Brodsky It was 1979. The Iranian monarehy of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi had been over thrown and the shah and his fami ly exiled. It was replaeed with an Islamie republie under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the revolution. Women lost the DAVID’S ATD StNCn 7 977 M TAGHeuer SWISS AVANT GARDE SINCE IS60 a MH .1 fiA '9,1, Vv;'. I . V //N . V 5 Q ^' 7EQ FORMULA 1 available on stainless steel BHACELET OH BLACK HJBBEH SCRAP TWO DOORS DOWN FROM CRATE & BARREL IN THE VILLAGE AT SOUTH PARK 4310 SHARON ROAD ♦ 704-364-AS43 WWW. davi dsltd.com soeial gains they made under the Shah, and were foreed to wear head eoverings and full-body eloaks ealled ehadors. Non- Muslims still suffer under the new regime. Felora Sadkhosravi was bom into a Baha’i family in Karaj, a suburb of Tehran in 1971. The revolution foreed her family to leave their home and move to another eity. “The environment was harsh for my parents and my siblings at work and at sehool just beeause of our Baha’i faith,” she said. “Women’s rights were very limited, and Baha’is were not allowed to go to university.” Even at a young age, Felora knew something had ehanged, and she wanted to do something about it — or leave her eountry. After selling her ear to obtain eash for two train tiekets, Felora and her teenage son embarked on the long trip to Turkey. They rent ed an apartment in a small suburb of Ankara for 13 months; Felora took in sewing to support them. She applied for refugee status; they appeared for all their inter views and medieal appointments and, “joyously,” she said, they were approved. In 2007, they are resettled in Charlotte by FIIAS/NC, now Carolina Refugee Resettlement Ageney (CRRA). “From then on, it seemed I got exaetly what I needed from the ageney — espeeially beeause I am a single mom,” said Felora. She and her son lived in an apartment rented and furnished by FIIAS/CRRA. In the apartment eomplex she met people from all walks of life — many refugees from different eountries. She was surprised and happy that everyone got along so well, while in Iran, people lived in fear and did not get Felora Sadkhosravi along beeause of government sanetioned diserimination. Iran remains a repressive regime built around an anti- Western ideology. Jews, Christians, and other reli gious minorities eseaping reli gious perseeution in Iran eome to the U.S. They do so with the assis- tanee of the Lautenberg Amendment, whieh was originally enaeted as part of the 1990 Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill. The bill established presump tion of eligibility for refugee sta tus for eertain perseeuted minori ties from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and Southeast Asia seeking to resettle in the U.S. Today, the Lautenberg Amendment faeili- tates the resettlement of Jews, Christians, Baha’is, and other reli gious minorities fleeing Iran. They were added to the Lautenberg Amendment in 2004. Lautenberg eontinues to assist religious minorities from the FSU. The Amendment was extended in late 2011, but is set to expire on Oetober 1, 2012 and must be renewed again. Among the worst human rights violations is the way woman are treated in Iran. (Continued on next page)
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