The Charlotte Jewish News - October 2012 - Page 29
Jewish Traveler, Maxine Silverstein, Discontinues
Her Bi-Monthly Column
By Amy Krakovitz
Twins, twins, twins. Yes, they
are a repeating theme in Maxine
Silverstein’s life. She herself is a
twin, and though it seems to have
skipped a generation, she has two
sets of granddaughters who are
twins, as well.
Maxine and her twin sister were
bom in Newark, but lived in
Brooklyn till they were 11 years
old when their father’s job in the
textile industry brought them to
Charlotte. For a eity girl who was
used to apartment living, the
house with the yard, a dog, and a
bieyele were great treasures that
made Maxine love her new home
from the start.
Her family joined Temple Beth
El, but she met Gary Silverstein, a
third generation Charlottean and
member of Temple Israel, when
they joined BBYO in high sehool.
And for any skepties who seoff at
high sehool romanees, Gary and
Maxine have just eelebrated their
45th wedding anniversary.
As a young eouple, they were
both employed by Eastern
Airlines, eareers that gave them a
taste for travel. When the opportu
nity arose to purehase Mann
Travel from David and Lila Mann,
they took it, though like any first
time business-owner, they were a
little anxious. But it turned out to
be a great sueeess.
“I feel like I’m a dream maker,”
Maxine says of her work as a trav
el agent. “I help people’s dreams
eome hue.
As a havel agent, Gary and
Maxine were able to take advan
tage of promotions and deals and
travel all over the globe. Her expe-
rienees and eonneetions to Jewish
plaees at her destinations led to a
sideline “eareer” as the travel
writer for The Charlotte Jewish
News. Sinee 1994, Maxine has
written about loeations around the
world and her stories and pietures
have appeared every other month
in CJN. It was a feature that the
whole eommunity enjoyed, not
just beeause of the faseinating
eities and sites she wrote about,
but beeause she always managed
to find some Jewish eonneetion in
every eomer of the planet. To add
to the depth of her pieees, Maxine
always researehed about the
Jewish history of a plaee and
ineluded that with deseriptions of
the synagogues, museums, restau
rants, and historieal sites she visit
ed.
“Just knowing that I would be
visiting and writing about these
plaees helped me reeonneet with
my Judaism,” Maxine says.
“Walking into synagogues all over
the world gives you sueh a won
derful spiritual feeling. ... This
was one of the highlights of trav
eling for me.”
While Mann Travel eontinues
to expand, so does Maxine’s fami
ly. She now has five grandehildren
(four of them are the aforemen
tioned two sets of twin girls) and
has deeided that writing for The
Charlotte Jewish News will no
longer be part of her repertoire.
She and Gary will eontinue to
travel for both business and pleas
ure but spending time
with her family will
now take preeedenee.
We at 77?e Charlotte
Jewish News will eer-
tainly miss reeeiving
and publishing her sto
ries, and we think that
our readers will, too. ^
Maxine and Gary Silverstein
Maxine learns to tango on a trip to Buenos Aires.
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