The Charlotte Jewish News -January 2014 - Page 5
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Hadera-Eiron Partnership Together
Three Teachers from Hadera Visit Chariotte to Teach, to Learn, to Connect
By Amy Krakovitz
How do you measure the im-
paet of a personal relationship?
How do you quantify the bene
fits of one-on-one with your
peers and eolleagues? For those
of us who partieipated in this
year’s teaeher exehange through
the Federation Partnership with
Hadera-Eiron in Israel, it’s
nearly impossible.
Three teaehers from the
Hadera region visited Charlotte
for nine days in Deeember. Orly
Cohen, Ruti Raz, and Neta Her-
moni eame to Charlotte to both
teaeh and learn (words that, in
Hebrew, have the same root) but
it was the rest of us who gained
the most.
Among the sehools they vis
ited were: Charlotte Jewish Day
Sehool, Temple Israel Religious
Sehool, Charlotte Country Day
Sehool, Hebrew High, Asheville
Aeademy for Girls, Temple Beth
El Religious Sehool, and Char
lotte Jewish Presehool. There
they either observed and/or
taught lessons on Israel and Jew
ish/Israeli identity, and in every
ease answered many questions
about their lives in Israel.
In addition to teaehing our
students, they were able to be
tourists in our area. They visited
Biltmore, had a tour of uptown
Charlotte, guided by our own
Moira Quinn Klein, saw the
movie Jerusalem at the Diseov-
ery Plaee IMAX Theatre, and
visited the Museum of the New
South, as well as the Luski Glass
Colleetion at the Luski-Goreliek
Center for Philanthropy.
Their hosts for the week,
Susan Soto and family, Moniea
Rabinovieh and family, and my
husband Jeff and me, made sure
that they ate well at several area
restaurants. They were able to
enjoy home-eooked meals due
to the kind hospitality of Debra
and David Van Glish for Shab-
bat, and Roz and Ivan Cooper
for a Sunday night gathering.
Many thanks are due also to
Susan Jaeobs and Rabbi Traey
Klirs, the direetors of our syna
gogue religious sehools; David
Lynn, direetor of International
Studies at Charlotte Country
Day Sehool; Dr. Loren Fauehier,
direetor of Global Studies at
Providenee Day Sehool; Mari-
ashi Groner, direetor of CJDS;
Donna deGroot, a teaeher at
CJDS; Brian Tomes, exeeutive
direetor of Asheville Aeademy
for Girls; and Andrew Bernstein,
ehair of the Partnership Steering
Committe.
But of eourse it was the eon-
taet between Orly, Ruti, and
Neta and the students that was
most benefieial. Whether it was
a serious diseussion of life in Is
rael or a fun time making
origami dreidels, everyone who
met our visiting teaehers were
impressed and awed at their abil
ity to present a lesson, their love
of their land, and their eompas-
sion for all the people around
them.
Through the Partnership,
teaehers visit our eity and we
also send teaehers to visit
Hadera. In addition, there is a
summer trip for teens. For more
information, eontaet Tal Stein at
the Federation offiee at 704-944-
6760 or tal.stein@jewishehar-
lotte.org. ^
Above: many of the participants gather at Roz and Ivan Cooper's for dinner; pictures at
left, top to bottom: Orly Cohen, Neta Hermoni, and Ruti Raz light the Hanukiya at Temple
Israel Religious School’s assembly; Neta Hermoni teaches the map of Israel to Temple
Beth El Religious School's fifth grade; Susan Soto, Neta Hermoni, and Orly Cohen at the
Biltmore Winery.
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