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The Charlotte Jewish News - August 2015 - Page 3 JEWISH FEDERATION NEWS P2G Mission to israei - March 27-Aprii 6, 2016 20 Year Celebration of Partnership2Gether Be a part of a mission that will unite and inspire you to beeome part of a greater Jewish family - eonneet, bond, and experienee Is rael as a unified eommunity. The Charlotte Jewish Federa tion is proud to announee our Partnership2Gether mission to Is rael and Fladera-Eiron as part of our 20th year eelebration of Part- nership2Gether (P2G). P2G is an international program of the Jew ish Ageney for Israel, whieh links eommunities in the Diaspora with speeifie regions and eommunities in Israel. The P2G mission will take plaee Mareh 27 - April 4, 2016. Cost is $2,000* land eosts only (ineludes hotel, double oeeupaney). Optional three-day extension, April 4-7, eelebrating the 20th anniversary of Partner- ship2Gether. Cost is an additional $1,990 (ineludes hotel, double oe eupaney). Applieations are avail able in the Federation offiee. Applieation deadline is November 13. The Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte Partnership To gether (P2G) has been eonneeting Charlotte with Fladera for the past several years. In addition to our Israeli eommunity, Charlotte is part of an Ameriean Southeast Consortium whieh ineludes the following Southeastern eities: Nashville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, TN; Charleston, SC; Fort Myers, Pinellas, and Jaek- sonville, FL; and Riehmond, VA. Partieipants will be able to ere- ate their own itineraries, ehoosing aetivities from four different traeks foeusing on adventure, pol ities, seeurity issues, history, and first-time experienees, as well as high teeh arts, eulture, and eui- sine. The trip also ineludes a three-day optional extension with aetivities that eelebrate the 20th anniversary of Partner- ship2Gether. Partieipants will have the opportunity to see the impaet of over a dozen different partnerships in the north, south, and een- tral regions of Israel, inelud ing Fladera-Eiron. This mission will provide a spe- eial opportunity for our Charlotte Jewish eommunity to share an Is rael experienee with our extended family in Israel as well as with our Southeast Ameriean family that will ereate new bonds of friend ship and understanding in Israel and at home. For more information please eontaet Tal Stein, Direetor of Community Relations and Israel Affairs at 704-944-6751 or tal.stein@jewisheharlotte.org. ^ * includes $500 subsidy from the Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte PARThlEnSHiP aCETHER HADERA - EIHQN SDUTHEASr R6QICHN Jewish Federation ^ »EAT£A CHARLOTTE Community Trip to ISRAEU°’® Travel as a communUy ■ Personali2e the Experience t/) in o i/i tn DATES March 27’-April 4, 2016 (option to extend through April 7 COST $2,000" per person, double occupancy (Landonly) Extension; $1,990 per person, double occupancy (Land only) ACCOMMODATIONS Dan Carmel Hotel, Haifa (2 nights) Mamilla Hotel, Jerusalem (5 nights) EXTENSION ACCOMMODATIONS Carlton Hotel, Tel Aviv (3nights) FOUR TRACKS TO CHOOSE FROM Adventure Lovers Politics and Security History and First Timers High Tech. Art and Culture CONTACT Tal Stein, 704.944.6751, tal,stein@jewishcharlotte.org ■ nights should be schedufedto depart Charlotte no later than March 27 to arrive in Israei m ttme to join the mission on the grourxi on March 28 ' ^Includes a $500 subsidy from the Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte Local Band Creates Cooperative CD with Israeli Musicians Though they live half a world apart and have never met, mem bers of the bands The Ruaeh and Alila are now musieal partners, so to speak. The Ruaeh ealls Char lotte home; Alila hails from Fladera - Eiron. Their musie is nothing alike. The Ruaeh, a roek band whose musieal influenees in- elude roek, roekabilly, eountry, and gospel, sets traditional Shab- bat prayers to their original musie. Alila ealls its musie “ethno-fu- sion,” an instrumental eombina- tion of jazz, klezmer, and Middle Eastern stylings. Both bands are among the 16 eontributors to Musie2Gether, a new CD of orig inal musie by Jewish artists from eommunities in the Southeastern U.S. and the Fladera-Eiron region of Israel. Musie2Gether is a eollabora- tive projeet developed through the Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte’s Partnership2Gether (P2G), a unique initiative of the Jewish Ageney for Israel that seeks to strengthen eonneetions between Jewish eommunities around the world with speeifie eities and regions in Israel. The Fladera-Eiron region partners with ten Jewish Federations in the Southeast United States ineluding Charlotte as well as the eities of Chattanooga, Knoxville, and, Nashville, TN as well as Flagler and Volusia Counties, Lee and Charlotte Counties, Jaeksonville, and Pinellas County, FL, Rieh mond VA and Charleston, SC. P2G Projeets sueh as Musie2Gether generate ongoing relationships among the partiei- pating eommunities whieh strengthen Jewish identity, pro mote soeial involvement and in- teraetion, and provide an avenue for the expression of eare, eom- mitment, and love between the partieipating eommunities. The CD is the eulmination of a projeet initiated last year by Nashville singer/songwriter/pro- dueer Russell Wolff and Israeli musieian/produeer, Ofer Ben- Zion. Wolff has worked with a Current performing members of the band RUACH are pictured: From Left to Right Dan Ruda, Nancy Good and Peter Levinson. Not Pictured: Aly Lerner, Dean Adelman, Franklin Kaunitz and Terry Wallach wide variety of musieians, from EL Cool J to Martina MeBride, and he is a voting member of the Grammys. Ben-Zion is a well- known Israeli musieian and pro- dueer, and owner of two musie sehools. Produeed in Israel, the CD has 16 songs: seven eomposed by Is raelis and nine by U.S. songwrit ers. When asked how the songs were seleeted, Wolff responded, “We got an overwhelming number of exeellent submissions. Seleet- ing the musie that fit best together for this eolleetion - that was the hardest part.” Musie2Gether (M2G) is an eeleetie mix of musie that ineludes folk, eountry, jazz, klezmer, hip- hop ... and The Ruaeh’s hard hit ting, full-on roek version of Shalom Aleiehem, performed by eurrent and past Ruaeh members ineluding Jill Levinson, Naney Good, Peter Levinson, Dan Ruda, and David Kruseh. All of the artists showeased on the CD have donated their time and talent. The Ruaeh was bom out of Temple Israel, and performs there on the third Friday night of eaeh month to lead Shabbat serviees and, onee a year for “Roek Flashanah.” When they aren’t playing at Temple Israel, they are available to play for other eongre- gations for their Friday night serv iees or other events. In talking about the band and why they play. The Ruaeh’s lead guitarist, Peter Levinson said, “Our goal is to share the joys of Judaism through modern musie and keep the religion relevant in today’s world.” Fie went on to say, “Our musie is trans-denomina- tional. It speaks to all Jews, no matter whieh part of the faith you affiliate with.” Despite the inevitable eultural variations, Ben-Zion said “musie is an international language. I be lieve that through its intemation- ality, we ean ereate a bridge that merges all those differenees in to an amazing statement of unity whieh is so important for both our eommunities. This is a great proj eet and I hope more will eome in the future.” Kosher Cuts- our Music2Together CD is now being sold at the Federation offiee with a suggested do nation of $18. All proeeeds go direetly to Charlotte’s Partnership Together Pro gram. 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