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The Charlotte Jewish News - September 2013 - Page 16 Tashlich Sunset Cruise on Lake Norman Simchat Torah - Let’s See You Dance Come and join us with your family for a beautiful Sunset Cruise on Lake Norman. Enjoy a delieious buffet dinner, tropieal drinks and smoothies, soeiabzing with friends, speeial aetivities for the kids, gorgeous views, and an unbelievable experienee for everyone. Rabbi Yisrael Levin will begin the eruise with the short Tashlieh prayer. Tashlieh is the aneient Jewish tradition of easting all of the negative energies that built up over the year into the open sea, making room for the possibilities of greatness in the eoming new year. Tuesday, September 10, 6 PM We will be loading beginning at 5:30 PM at the Peninsula Yaeht Club, 18501 Harbor Light Blvd., Cornelius, NC 28031. $15 per person $50 max per family RSVP required - limited spaee available. For more details or to RSVP: info@JewishBallantyne.eom or 704-246-8881 or visit our website www.JewishBallantyne.eom. ^ TijriHKIicK SUNSET CRUISE lyti&uttUittLkAiiiiiUiij Join us for a grand Torah eele- bration espeeially for kids. Enjoy a delieious dinner in the Sukkah followed by daneing with the Torah kid style ineluding danee eompetitions and flags for every one. Simehat Torah is all about unbridled joy, whieh surpasses even the joy of Sukkot. The joy reaehes its elimax on Simehat Torah, when we eelebrate the eon- elusion - and restart - of the an nual Torah-reading eyele. This event is open to the eom- munity and free of eharge. RSVP is appreeiated. Wednesday September 25, 5:30-7 PM. At the Ballantyne Jewish Cen ter, 8632 Bryant Farms Rd. To RSVP or for more informa tion, eontaet Rabbi Yisrael and Leah Levin, info@JewishBallan- tyne.eom or 704 246 8881 or visit us online www.JewishBallan- tyne.eom. Simehat Torah Chabad Style will take plaee Thursday, Septem ber 26, 7:45 PM at the Ballantyne Jewish Center, 8632 Bryant Farm Rd. ^ Jewish Programming in Sun City Carolina Lakes Thanks to the Jewish Federa tion of Greater Charlotte Commu nity Impaet Fund, Jewish programming in Sun City is thriv ing. Luneh ‘N Learns, Shabbat Dinners, Holiday Events, Adult Edueation, Jewish Women’s Pro gramming, we are keeping busy. If you live in Sun City, or know someone who does, make sure to visit www.JewishBallantyne.eom/ SunCity and subseribe to our Sun City email list. Coming up next: - Luneh in the Sukkah, Tues day, September 24 - Fall Shabbat Dinner, Friday, November 8 - Chanukah Candle Making (Jewish Women Conneeted), Wednesday, November 13 - Chanukah Party, Deeember 4 - Luneh ‘N Learns and Regular Classes will resume in Oetober For more information eall 704- 246-8881, email Rabbi@Jewish- Ballantyne.eom or visit our website at www.JewishBallan- tyne.eom/ SunCity. ^ Charlotte Torah Center and Jewish Women Renaissance Project Our Own Personal, Yet Collective, “Nesiya” (Journey) By Jayme Kreitman Thanks to the Charlotte Torah Center, 18 Charlotte women were able to take a personal nesiya (journey) to Israel this summer as part of the Jewish Women’s Ren- aissanee Projeet. We left our fam ilies, our homes, our jobs, and the mundane tasks of everyday life to Selling Fresh Fish Serving Lunch from 11-2 Featuring Sandwiches, Soups, Salads Fresh Fish Available Scottish Salmon, Yellowfin Tuna, Alaskan Halibut, NC Flounder, Grouper, Red Snapper Gulf Oysters, Wild New Bedford Scallops, Wild Gulf Shrimp, Blue Crabs and more... complain tkatdoe^n'ta mcu^det, thie is MSuje^^. Kathleen Purvis, Observer food editor Check the website for daily updates of our lunch menu and fresh fish available www.deepseamarket.com 10020 Monroe Rd., Matthews, NC 28105 at the intersection of Galleria Blvd. 704-849-0029 info@deepseamarket.com focus on our own personal con nection with the Jewish Home land, with Judaism, and how we can positively affect our families and our community. The JWRP trip is difficult to explain if you haven’t had the ex perience. This personal, yet still collective, adventure in Israel was one part touring, one part Torah study with a focus on the Jewish woman, one part volunteerism, one part Israel activism, and one part celebratory with the emphasis on bonding with other women. When I returned, everyone wanted to know where I went and what I did, but my answers really didn’t begin to summarize the ex perience. Yes, we toured Israel and traveled North to Tiberias and Tsfat. We went to Masada and the Dead Sea and we explored all the inner alleyways of the Old City in Jerusalem and even shared pro found experiences at the Kotel. But none of that really explains the trip. We became fully immersed in lectures to learn about ourselves, our marriage, our children, and our family - all based on Torah teachings. We learned about Shab bat and its most important tenet - to connect you must disconnect. But most importantly, we were able to celebrate Shabbat in Israel with our new family of “sisters.” The JWRP Shabbat celebration in Israel is unparalleled. All 180 women from 10 different cities danced together at the Kotel wall. As we sang L’Cha Dodi to wel come in Shabbat, complete strangers joined in with our mag netic group. Tears welled up in our eyes as we locked arms with female Israeli soldiers to sing the Hatikvah. We were disconnected from technology and from our families here, but we were truly connected to the people we were with, with Judaism, and with God. But the trip is more than the sum of its parts. Each lecture, each place we toured, and each meal together was more about building and maintaining relation ships - a relationship with Israel and support of Israel; a relation ship with Torah study and our her itage; a relationship with our families; and perhaps equally as important, a relationship with the other women who came on the trip together. None of this would have hap pened here in Charlotte, despite our best efforts. Distractions of our daily lives would have forced us to be only partially present dur ing the tours, the lectures, and the opportunities to help others. We all needed a retreat, and Israel was the only place that could have ac complished the goals. Again, we had to disconnect to connect. After traveling to Israel this summer, we now understand first hand why it’s important to support Israel and its people in whatever way we can. We see how learning Torah in Israel with other women can be applied daily in our lives here in Charlotte. We celebrated Shabbat together in Israel and now have felt the positive interac tions with family and friends as we experienced the joy of Shabbat in our own homes, some of us for the first time. The goal of Charlotte Torah Center’s sponsorship of the JWRP is to strengthen all of those rela tionships and bring back the knowledge and enthusiasm to our (Continued on page 18)
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