The Charlotte Jewish News - November 2012 - Page 16
Hungry Hearts — A View of the Lower East Side
Be whisked baek in time and
see real footage of New York’s
Lower East Side in the 20s. The
Jewish Film Soeiety of Charlotte
is proud to present this bitter
sweet, elassie film that so beauti
fully eaptures the hopes and
hardships of Jewish immigrants in
the New World. Based on the
short stories of Anzia Yezierska,
the first writer to bring stories of
Ameriean Jewish women to a
mainstream audienee, Hungry
Hearts foeuses on the Levine fam
ily who emigrate from Eastern
Europe. While Abraham, the
pious father, has diffieulty making
a living and adjusting to life in
Ameriea, his daughter Sara serubs
floors in the tenement in order to
earn money and beeome “a some
body.”
The 1922, blaek-and-white film
Hungry Hearts was direeted by E.
Mason Flopper and was filmed all
on loeation on the Lower East
Side. While this newly restored
film is silent, live musieal aeeom-
paniment will be featured for our
Charlotte sereening. Ethan Uslan,
award-winning ragtime pianist,
will provide the live musie
arranged solely for our viewing
audienee. This unique eultural ex-
perienee is one that you won’t
want to miss.
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The Jewish Film Soeiety of
Charlotte is brought to you by
the Levine-Sklut Judaie Li
brary and the Charlotte Jewish
Film Festival. For more infor
mation, please eontaet Debby
Bloek at 704-944-6763.
Date: Sunday, November
11 at 5 PM
Place: Sam Lemer Center
for Cultural Arts in Shalom
Park
Cost: $5 per person. Tiekets
are available at the door.
Length: 80 minutes. ^
“Hungry Hearts” depicts early 20th cen
tury life on the Lower East Side.
Ethan Ulsan will accompany the
showing of “Hungry Hearts” with
original arragements.
^ Jewish Family Services ®
Sign Up for the November 11 Friends
Run
Run the ehip-timed 5k or the
one mile fun run, enjoy treats and
aetivities, or earn eommunity
serviee hours by volunteering.
Sign up at www.FriendsRun.eom.
* Splash in the LJCC bubble
pool - Free for all raee partieipants
and their families.
* Enjoy our Kid Zone spon
sored by Your Event Souree.
* Work out your kinks in the
LJCC streteh zone - post raee
yoga and ehair massages for par
tieipants.
* Raee partieipants reeeive a
free day pass to the LJCC good
for six months.
* Babysitting at the LJCC
(eight weeks-six years) for a small
fee. Limited spaee; reserve by No
vember 4: 704-366-5007.
Please Help Your Jewish
Community
One in nine members of our
Jewish eommunity will eome to
JFS for help this year. Your dona
tion to the Family-to-Family An
nual Campaign allows them to
reeeive the help they need when
they need it, and the skills to move
forward. Your gift:
* provides eounseling to a fam
ily grieving the loss of their wife
and mother, even when they don’t
have insuranee.
* helps the single mother diag
nosed with eaneer reeeive benefits
and finaneial assistanee from
DSS, United Family Serviees, and
Soeial Seeurity.
* ensures that every home-
bound Jewish senior remains eon-
neeted to the Jewish eommunity.
* gives free help to the newly
unemployed eouple to set up a
budget and fill out food stamp ap-
plieations.
If you have not yet made your
pledge, eall 704-364-6594 or visit
www.jfseharlotte.org. Payments
are 100% tax-deduetible.
Hanukkah Gift Drive
Flanukkah starts Deeember 7.
JFS and the LJCC are partnering
to bring gifts to the families in our
eommunity who might otherwise
go without. Beginning Oetober
15, visit the LJCC entranee and
piek up a dreidel and fulfill some
one’s wish. All gifts need to be de
livered to JFS by November 19
for distribution.
Fall Programming
Love & Logic Workshops
* Raising the eaptain of the de
bate team?
* Wondering if your kids will
ever listen to you?
* Feel exhausted at the end of
the day?
Join JFS and Wendy Petrieoff
for fun and easy-to-use parenting
teehniques to help put the fun
baek into parenting. You will learn
praetieal tips and skills to avoid
ing arguments with your ehildren,
diseover ways to share eontrol,
and arm yourself with all the tools
you need to be an effeetive parent.
Multiple workshops offered be
ginning in November-full sehed-
ule online.
Peer Group for Tween and
Teen Girls
New eurrieulum: JFS elinieal
therapists use a peer-eentrie eur
rieulum to build partieipants’
knowledge and skills for resisting
negative peer pressure by empow
ering them to identify what they
are being pressured to do and the
eonsequenees. Partieipants then
determine healthy alternatives and
invite peers to join them in aeting
on their smarter ehoiees. Contaet
704-364-6594 or info@jfsehar-
lotte.org for more information.
Wednesdays through Novem
ber 17,4-4:45 PM at JFS.
New Programs Related to
Grieving and Loss
In correlation with Grief
Awareness Month in November,
JFS introduces several new pro
grams for people experiencing
grief and loss, and those around
them. All programs are open to all
members of the community, re
gardless of age, income, or reli
gious background.
Bereavement Support Group
First and third Monday of each
month, starting November 4, 4—
5:30 PM, JFS Conference Room
Our bereavement support
group allows you to share your
feelings with others who have ex
perienced similar losses and are
facing the same challenges. Led
by JFS Clinical Therapist Lynda
Woodbum, this new group is open
to adults 18 and older who have
experienced grief as a result of the
death of a loved one. Through dis
cussion topics and educational
materials, you will have the op
portunity to share your story in a
safe and non-judgmental environ
ment, and learn ways to under
stand your grief and explore
avenues for growth and healing.
Caregiver Support Group
Now twice/month, the second
Tuesday of each month at 6 PM
and the fourth Tuesday at 10 AM
(November 13 at 6 PM and No
vember 27 at 10 AM).
Taking care of yourself is just
as vital as taking care of your
loved ones. JFS Clinical Therapist
Nicole Levine and Director of
Senior Adult Outreach Services
Natalie Tunney lead caregivers for
these confidential, safe meetings
to explore your feelings and con
cerns.
Acknowledgements
Thank you to the following in
dividuals and organizations who
contributed their time in August.
Your support and generosity allow
us to provide quality services and
programming to our community:
JFS Matters of the Fleart Volun
teers: Ben Aizenman, Susan
Aizenman, Bob Abroms, Ira
Bukzin, Bobby Damsky, Myra Di-
uguid, Simon Estroff, Robert
Friedman, Gail Flalverson, Flanah
Flawkins, Frada Mozenter, Baila
Pransky, Jenny Rosenthal, Bill
Schwartz, Jeff Strauch, Amalia
Warshenbrot, Ronnie Zevon
JFS Behind the Scenes Volun
teers: Susan Aizenman, Phyllis
Berlin, Ellen Bottner, Sharon Ca
vanaugh, Lynne Cojac, Aileen Ep
stein, Alexis Fish, Sandy
Hoagland, Sari Flochberg, Karen
Kantrowitz, Judy Kaufmann,
Penny Krieger, Share! Persin, Fle-
lene Rosen, Gail Samber, Roz
Snyder, Flagit Stav, Joyce Stoll,
Nancy Tarbis
Thank you to everyone who
participated in the Chase Giving
Facebook Contest - your support
raised $10,000 for JFS. ^