An Affiliate of the Jewish Federation
of Greater Charlotte
Vol. 38, No. 11
Kislev-Tevet 5777
December 2016
There Are a Few Tickets Still Available to Hear Hollywood
Mensch, Joshua Malina, Speak at the 2017 Main Event
Only a few days remain until
The Main Event, the Federation’s
highest profile event of the season
... the event that kieks off our
eommunity’s 2017 Annual Cam
paign. On Thursday, Deeember 8,
be sure to be at Temple Israel at
7:30 PM to hear Joshua Malina
talk about “How to Remain a
Menseh in Hollywood.”
“Seandal” and “West Wing”
east member Joshua Malina is a
performer seeond and a Jew first.
That’s how the aetor deseribes
himself when he visits Jewish
Federation and Hillel audienees
around the eountry.
Malina, who plays United
States Attorney General David
Rosen on the Shonda Rhimes-ere-
ated ABC series “Seandal,” has
had some tough ehoiees to make
during his eareer when his Jewish
Actor and mensch Joshua Malina.
identity eollided with his film and
television aspirations. There was
the audition when he was direeted
to eat pizza during Passover. He
didn’t and lost the part. And the
time he was asked to report to
work on a film set the seeond day
of Rosh Hashanah. He asked if his
sehedule eould be rearranged. It
was.
To meet Joshua Malina and
hear his remarks, be sure to pur-
ehase your tiekets, whieh are
$36 per person and inelude the
Leeture and a Dessert Reeeption.
Or help underwrite the eosts of the
event and “Be An Honorable
Menseh” by purehasing two tiek
ets for $180. Honorable Men-
sehen will also reeeive an
autographed photo, a eopy of the
book Be A Mensch by Moshe
Kaplan, plus aeknowledgement
in The Main Event program, on
the Federation website, and in
The Charlotte Jewish News.
Tiekets ean be purehased online
at www.jewisheharlotte.org; by
phone at 704-944-6757; or in per
son at the Federation offiee. Last
minute? A few tiekets remain and
ean be purehased at the door.
The entire eommunity will
benefit from a sueeessful Main
Event and Annual Campaign. The
theme of the 2017 Campaign is
“It’s Always Something. That’s
Why There’s Federation.” At The
Main Event, you will have the op
portunity to make your annual
pledge to the 2017 Campaign.
Through your support of Federa
tion, you ean be virtually any
where on the globe making a vital
differenee in Jewish lives at home,
in Israel and in over 70 eountries
around the world. By supporting
Federation, you ean toueh more
Jewish lives than through any
other organization on the planet.
Wherever there is a Jewish eom
munity, Federation is at work.
And so are you. Please visit our
Jewish Federation
OF GREATER CHARLOTTE
website www.jewisheharlotte.org
to learn more about the Jewish
Federation of Greater Charlotte.
The mission of the Jewish Fed
eration of Greater Charlotte is to
raise and distribute funds to sup
port and enrieh the lives of Jews
loeally, nationally, in Israel and
worldwide. Through edueation,
planning and eommunity build
ing, the Federation’s mission en
sures that Jewish values, goals,
traditions and eonneetions are pre
served for eurrent and future gen
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The Countdown Is On - LJCC Capital Campaign Ends December 31
JBuild is drawing to a elose,
however, there is still time to
make a differenee and help to
build our eommunity’s future by
joining the hundreds of families
who have ehosen to support the
JCC’s Capital Campaign.
Families who have made gen
erous donations are having a stag
gering impaet. Thanks to
everyone partieipating in the eam-
paign sinee its launeh in 2014, we
are realizing our dreams of an up
dated faeility for eurrent and fu
ture LJCC families. Although
elose to aehieving our $5.95 mil
lion dollar goal, we are not quite
there and, as we move into the
final month of the eampaign, there
is still time for the entire eommu
nity to partieipate.
Your pledges are already hard
at work. For example, we reeently
eompleted renovations of our
Family Looker rooms and, as you
read this, the new pool is being
eonstmeted. These exeiting reno
vations and additions will enhanee
everyone’s experienee and give
new generations the opportunity
to meet, to gather and to form last
ing relationships. But, while we
know the physieal ehanges are
needed on our 30-year-old eampus
- the eampaign is mueh less about
what we are building than WHY
we are building it.
Every one of us has our own “if
not for the J...” personal story.
Would you have met the other
moms strolling their babies
through the halls? Would you
have met your personal trainer and
made healthier, lifestyle ehanges?
Would your ehildren have dressed
up for the Purim eamival? Or
gone to summer day eamp? Would
you have easily met new friends
when you moved to town?
Roni Fishkin, JBuild Campaign
Chair, reeently shared her passion
for the Campaign and her own
personal J Story. “My ehildren
grew up at the LJCC ... and many
of their friends today are still the
ones they made in Hoopsters,
miero soeeer, or just hanging out
at the pool. I want that same op
portunity for the next generation.
I feel strongly about this eampaign
beeause just as past generations
ereated a plaee to shape my J story
... I want to ensure there are fu
ture stories to be told.”
At the Levine JCC, we are
blessed with the opportunity to
build and nurture relationships
with the members of our eommu
nity eaeh day. These relationships
are solidified upon the foundation
we build together. At its eore, re
lationships are built upon the sup
port of our eommunity. This
support is our koach, our strength.
JBuild ensures that future genera
tions of the Charlotte Jewish eom
munity will be able to build these
relationships just as we have for
the past 30 years. As LJCC Board
President Jon Simon shared, “I
have been involved at the Levine
JCC my entire life and JBuild
helps us to ensure our eontinued
sueeess as an organization.
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Through the eampaign we will be
able to enhanee existing program
faeilities as well as expand our
programs through new initiatives,
sueh as Adults, Cultural Arts, and
Wellness programs to benefit the
greater Jewish eommunity.”
Without you - our loyal mem
bers and generous donors - none
of this would be possible. The
words Leon Levine spoke a
deeade ago still hold true today,
“... the whole eommunity needs
to be involved ... they have to be
involved to want to be a part of
it.”
We want to thank everyone that
has already partieipated in the
LJCC Capital Campaign. If you
have yet to make your pledge,
don’t delay; make your pledge
today in support of your LJCC
Capital Campaign before the
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