An Affiliate of the Jewish Federation
of Greater Charlotte
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Vol. 37, No. 10
Cheshvan-Kislev 5776
November 2015
“Stars of David” will Shine Brightly at
Federation MAIN EVENT on December 17
SAVE THE DATE
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OF GREATER OHAULOTTE
2016 Main Event and
Campaign Kick-Off
Thursday, December 17,
7:30 PM
At Tempie israei
Stars of David: Jewish
identity in the 21st Century
Main Event Chair:
Larry Schwartz
Guest Speaker:
Abigaii Pogrebin, author of
Stars of David
Tickets are $36 and can be
purchased oniine at
www.jewishchariotte.org
Abigail Pogrebin has become a
rare voice among American Jews,
as a journalist and an explorer
who shares with refreshing wit
and candor her path to finding a
meaningful Jewish life.
A former producer for 60 Min
utes and Charlie Rose, she is the
author of Stars of David: Promi
nent Jews Talk About Being Jew
ish, in which sixty-one of the
most accomplished Jews in
America speak intimately-most
for the first time-about how they
feel about being Jewish, the influ
ence of their heritage, the weight
and pride of their history, the bur
dens and pleasures of observance,
the moments they’ve felt most
Jewish (or not). In unusually can
did interviews with Abigail
Pogrebin over the course of 18
months, celebrities ranging from
Sarah Jessica Parker to Supreme
Court Justice Ruth Bader Gins-
burg, from Larry King to Mike
Nichols, reveal how being Jewish
fits into their public and most pri
vate lives.
At The Main Event, Abigail
Pogrebin will share vivid, per
sonal portraits that reveal how the
experience of being Jewish in the
21 st century is amplified by fame
and how her evolving Jewish
identity was changed by what she
heard. She will also moderate a
conversation about Jewish iden
tity among distinguished mem
bers of the Charlotte Jewish
community.
A graduate of Yale University,
Abigail is also the author of One
and the Same: My Life as an
Identical Twin and What I’ve
Learned About Everyone’s Strug
gle to be Singular, and has con
tributed to numerous publications
including New York Magazine,
The Daily Beast, Salon, Tablet,
The Forward, The Huffmgton
Post, and Harper's Bazaar. For
the past two years, she’s helped
assemble Newsweek’s list of “The
50 Most Influential Rabbis in
America.” Abigail moderates the
interview series, “What Every
one’s Talking About” at the JCC
in Manhattan, where her illustri
ous guests have included
Nicholas Kristof, David Rem-
nick, Chris Matthews, Nora
Ephron, Mario Batali, and
Jonathan Safran Foer. She has
also moderated interviews at the
92nd Street Y and the Bronfman
Foundation. She is the daughter
of Letty Cottin Pogrebin, founder
of Ms. Magazine.
For more information about
The Main Event, contact the Fed
eration office at 704-944-6757.^
JCRC Fall Lecture
Featuring Ari Shavit
Ari Shavit
Please join us for the Jewish
Federation’s Community Rela
tions Council Annual Fall Lecture
on Wednesday, November 4,
7 PM in the Sam Lerner Center
for Cultural Arts at Shalom Park.
Our featured guest speaker will
be Ari Shavit, one of the
most influential Israeli jour
nalists writing about the
Middle East today and au
thor of My Promised Land.
Shavit will discuss
“Promise and Peril, Why Is
rael and the Diaspora Need Each
Other” explaining how Israel’s
complex past ought to shape its
still-uncertain future. Ari Shavit
through illuminating powerful
and compelling moments of the
modem Zionist state of Israel will
challenge Diaspora Jewry to be
bold in imagining the next chal
lenging chapter for Israel. No
country is more emotionally con
nected to the United States, and
no country’s fate matters more to
many Americans.
The event is free and open to
the public.
For more information, please
contact Tal Stein, Director of
Community Relations and Israel
Affairs, 704-944-6751.
This event was made possible
by a generous gift from Harry and
Gloria Lerner. ^
Jewish
Community
Relations
Council
Charlotte Chapter of Hadassah’s 2nd Annual Israeli Products Fair
You Could Win a Trip to Israel!
November 22,10 AM -2 PM,
Lerner Hall, Main Street, and
Oasis Room at Shalom Park
The Charlotte Chapter of
Hadassah is proud to host the 2nd
Annual Israeli Products Fair on
November 22 at Shalom Park,
5007 Providence Road. In re
sponse to feedback from attendees
last year, we are pleased to an-
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nounce that this year’s event will
feature only Israeli made prod
ucts, showcasing their fantastic
cultural, artistic, and deep history
of craftsmanship. This year’s
biggest and most exciting addition
to the Fair is a raffle* to win a
2016 Hadassah Mission Trip for
two to Israel. Tickets cost $72
each or 8 for $500, and can be
purchased at the front desk of the
main building at Shalom Park.
Buy your ticket soon, as only 250
raffle tickets will be sold, excel
lent odds to win. The drawing will
occur at the Fair on November 22,
and tickets will be on sale until the
day of the event unless they sell
out prior to that. You need not be
present to win.
The Fair, co-sponsored by the
Jewish Federation of Greater
Charlotte, the Levine Jewish
Community Center, and Ayelet
Travel, was designed as a commu
nity-wide event. In addition to this
fabulous raffle, the event will fea
ture an Israel Travel room, which
will feature tables for Jewish
agencies and organizations that
have sponsored a trip to Israel to
showcase their trip to Fair atten
dees, as well as speakers on travel
to Israel and the economic impact
Israeli purchasing and technology
on the state of North Carolina.
This room will show the commu
nity the variety of opportunities
and possibilities of supporting and
traveling to Israel.
The Fair itself will feature Is
raeli food provided by Izzy’s
catering, children’s activities, and
local and Israeli vendors offering
a wide variety of Israeli products,
including Judaica, jewelry, skin
products, shoes, purses, olive oils,
and much more. Vendors will be
coming in from as far away as
Baltimore (Sababa Israeli Jew
elry) and Alabama (Sabra Style)
to participate.
Proceeds from this event will
fund the Sarah Wetsman David
son Hospital Tower in Jerusalem,
Hadassah’s 19-story world-class
in-patient facility that houses five
below-ground floors, where the
ultra-modem specialized Surgical
Center is located and protected
from outside attacks of any kind,
conventional, biological, or chem
ical.
For additional information,
contact Stacy Baum at 704-808-
0423 or schree@carolina.rr.com.
For a complete list of rules and
trip dates and additional informa-
tion about the Fair, please visit
www.hadassah.org/charlotte and
to sign up for a table to sell Israeli
items, visit http://tinyurl.com/
CLTIsraeliFairVendor ^
* North Carolina State law re
quires winner to pay taxes based
on the full value of the prize. See
rules at www.hadassah.org/char-
lotte.
Thank you to our
sponsors:
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