The Charlotte Jewish News -September 2013 - Page 10
Community News
Levine Jewish Community Center 7th Operation Understanding
Annual Invitational Golf Tournament Returns to Charlotte
Benefltting the Levine JCC^s Senior Adult Enrichment
Program (OASIS)
The 7th Annual Levine JCC In
vitational Golf Tournament, ben
efiting its senior adult Oasis
Program will be held on Monday,
September 30 at TPC Piper Glen.
The day will kiek off with luneh
at 11:15 and then the golf will
begin with a 12:15 shotgun start.
Mulligans will be available for
purehase along with a 50/50 raffle
and The Palm restaurant gift eer-
tifieates. During the eoneluding
dinner reeeption and awards eer-
emony, there will also be a Silent
Auetion, featuring a unique op
portunity to play at some of the
most prestigious golf eourses
throughout the eity.
The tournament’s main spon
sors are NCBT and The Palm
Restaurant. Proeeeds from the
tournament help provide neees-
sary funds to benefit the Levine
JCC Oasis Senior Enriehment
Program. The mission of the
OASIS program is to enrieh the
quality of all senior partieipants
regardless of religious affiliations.
Contributions sueh as these made
to the Oasis program touehes fam
ilies and individuals in tangible
and profound ways that truly
make a differenee in peoples’
lives. These dollars will direetly
subsidize nourishing lunehes.
fund transportation, and sponsor
meaningful programming, all de
signed to enhanee the lives of our
seniors. For many seniors, the
Levine JCC is their only eontaet
with the eommunity, a nourishing
meal, a health eheek, any type of
physieal aetivity, or a myriad of
other life sustaining serviees.
NCBT and The Palm Restau
rant have been the lead sponsors
for this event for many years and
their generosity has helped make
a differenee in the lives of our
seniors. Additional sponsorships
are still available and we are hap
pily aeeepting donations to the
Oasis Senior Program.
We would also like to thank
our Tournament Committee
Members - Mike Van Glish
(Chairman), Ira Dunst, Steve
Hader, Steve Lepow, Seott
Menaker, Peter Smul, and Mare
Wojnowieh for all their hard work
to make this year’s outing a fun
and sueeessful event.
We sineerely hope that you will
ehoose to beeome involved with
this fun-filled eommunity-wide
speeial event.
There are just a few slots still
available, so make sure to guaran
tee your entry by signing up soon.
Registration ean be made by eon-
taeting Geneva Boxer at
Geneva.Boxer@eharlottejee.eom/
704-944-6724.«
By Amy Krakovitz
Eaeh year Jewish and Affiean-
Ameriean students from the
Washington, DC, area embark on
a Civil Rights Flistory tour of
Ameriea. Before they step on their
tour bus and take off for weeks to
gether, most of these students
have never met one another. These
Freedom Riders of Operation Un
derstanding visit many plaees in
the US. They begin their trip in
New York City. They also go to
Atlanta where they learn about the
life of Martin Luther King, Jr., to
Alabama and Mississippi to the
sites of famous moments in the
fight for eivil rights. And every
summer, before heading for At
lanta, they eome to Charlotte.
This year they joined the stu
dents of the Shalom Park Freedom
Sehool for Flarambee and spoke
JCC Donations
OASIS SENIOR ADULT PROGRAM FUND
In memory of Vie Cabillis, father of Jodie lag-
noeeo from Judy and Stan August, Roz and Irv Bald
win, Millie Siegel, Sally Nieholson and Sharon B.
Pearson
In honor of Lewis Spitzer’s birthday from Sally
Nieholson
DAVID SILVERMAN
MEMORIAL FUND
Wishing Mare Silverman a
speedy reeovery from Brenda and
Floyd Patten
In memory of Jim Trollinger, husband of Sue
Trollinger from Mattye and Mare Silverman
PAUL SPIL MEMORIAL SOFTBALL FUND
In honor of Ellis Jewelers 60th anniversary from
The Samuel Spil Company
STUART OSTROW MEMORIAL FUND
Wishing Connie Ostrow a happy birthday;
the marriage of the Cihlars; eondolenees to Bev
and Rodney Johnson from the Vitale family
BUTTERFLY PROJECT DONATION
In honor of Rose and Abe Luski’s anniver
sary from Aleen and David Epstein ^
Sierra Armstrong and Zach
Kushner
with sehool representatives about
its mission; learned about the
Charlotte Jewish eommunity from
Susan Jaeobs, Direetor of Temple
Beth El Religious Sehool; got ae-
tivism training and inspiration
from eommunity organizer and
1960 sit-in leader J. Charles
Jones; and toured the Levine Mu
seum of the New South.
What drives these students to
partieipate in this eross eountry
journey into history?
Zaeh Kushner, 17, of Blake
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