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Karen Knoble and Barry Bo-
brow are among the 255 individ
uals and families in our
community who have created 501
unique legacy gifts to support its
future. Please take the time to
read their story and thank them
for their generosity. It is our hope
that you will be inspired and en
couraged to think about how you
can create your own Jewish
legacy.
By Karen Knoble
Barry grew up in a suburb of
Detroit, Miehigan and I was
raised in Northern Virginia. We
met in 1983 at graduate sehool at
the University of Miehigan and
married several years later. Al
though Barry’s family was not
partieularly observant, his parents
wanted him to have a strong Jew
ish edueation. His family be
longed to Temple Beth Shalom, a
eonservative synagogue where
Barry thrived in Hebrew Sehool
and beeame Bar Mitzvah. I am a
Jew by ehoiee. After meeting
Barry, I eame to love Jewish tra
ditions and perspeetives. Barry
and I lived in syne with the Jewish
ealendar and deeided to raise our
family within the Jewish religion
and traditions, but I did not have
plans to formally eonvert to Ju
daism - until Barry’s father died.
Through his death, I experieneed
how Judaism eneourages family
members to grieve and provides
rituals for grieving. I began the
eonversion proeess and eom-
pleted it several years later.
When we moved to Charlotte
in 1996, as an interfaith eouple
with three young ehildren in tow,
we were unsure what kind of Jew
ish Community we would find.
We were weleomed by a vibrant
and strong eommunity - a eom-
munity made rieher and stronger
beeause of the pluralistie strueture
of Shalom Park. Our ehildren en
rolled at Charlotte Jewish Pre-
sehool and enjoyed a variety of
offerings at the LJCC. They grad
uated from Temple Israel Reli-
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Most people worry about their
own finaneial needs and their
neighbor’s soul. Better they
should worry about their
neighbor’s finaneial needs
and their own souls.”
- Rabbi Israel Lipkin Salanter
Our Community’s Newest Legacy Gifts
There are now 255 individu
als/families throughout our Jewish
eommunity who have ineluded a
loeal Jewish organization in their
legaey plans ereating 501 unique
legaeies. We thank the following
individuals/families who have re-
eently informed our eommunity,
through Foundation for the Char
lotte Jewish Community (FCJC)
or one of the ten Create Your Jew
ish Legaey eommunity partners,
that they have ereated a legaey
gift to support the future of Char
lotte’s Jewish eommunity.
We weleome the newest donors
into our eommunity’s Book of
Life Soeiety:
Robert and Linda Isser
Sam and Linda Levy
Ira and Stacey Slomka
We thank our legaey donors
who have added new organiza
tions to their previously ereated
legaey plans:
Ellen Block Engelhard!
Janet and David
Lefkowitz
Steven and Stephanie
Starr
gious Sehool and beeame b’nei
mitzvah at Temple Israel. In our
eighteen years in Charlotte,
through our Jewish eommunity
we have found spiritual fulfill
ment and established lifelong
friendships.
We are part of an unpreee-
dented generation in Ameriean
history. We are fortunate to have
finaneial resourees so mueh
greater than our parents, and it is
not at all elear that future genera
tions will have the same where
withal. Yet the needs of our
Jewish eommunity will still exist
for those future generations. We
know that families and individu
als will still seek spiritual guid-
anee and Judaie edueation;
require assistanee from Jewish
Family Serviees; and desire sa-
ered burial plaees for their loved
ones. We know that they, too, will
benefit from of a strong Jewish
eommunity. As we evaluated the
merits of leaving legaey gifts, we
wanted to help reduee the eost
burden of those future genera
tions, and ensure that the diverse
needs of our eommunity members
are met well into the future.
During our lifetimes, we have
given baek to our eommunity
through finaneial eontributions
and by taking on leadership posi
tions throughout Shalom Park.
For us, leaving a legaey gift was
a logieal next step. We want to
eontinue to give baek to the Char
lotte Jewish Community after we
are gone. We hope that our legaey
will help build the finaneial seeu-
rity of our eommunity for genera
tions to eome, and by doing so to
inspire others to do the same.^
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Thank You Legacy Donors
The following individuals/fannllies are
In the Book of Life Society and have
granted us permission to share with
you that Foundation of Shalom Park
has been included as a beneficiary of
their legacy gift.
Foundation Of
Shalom Park
COMMUNITY
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Don and Bobbi Bernstein
Mark and Louis [OBM} Bernstein
Steven and Olivia Cohen
Barry Bobrow and Karen Knoble
Adam Foodman
Biil and Patty Gorelick
Jeff and Bari Gorelick
Mark and Alison Lerner
Leon and Sandra Poliakoff Levine
Holly and Hal Levinson
Abe and Rose Luski
Polly and Steve Menaker
Eliot and Shirley Rosen
Kevin Levine and Louts Sinkoe
Lori and Eric Skiut
Marilyn and Harry Swimmer
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FCJC
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CHARLOTTE JEWISH
COMMU.«rTY
704.973,4544
charlottejewishfoundation.org
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You are invited to our
ADMISSIONS OPEN HOUSE
TK/Kindergarten
October 17,2014 9:30 a.m.
TK / K through Grade 12
November?,2014 9:30a.m.
To register:
www.charlottelatin.org/OpenHouseRSVP