page 9~THE NEWS—January 1980
CAMPAIGN ’80
Women’s Division
Campaign 1980
With a 44% increase in dollars
pledged over last year, Women’s
Division Campaign is off to a
proud start for 1980. In recogni
tion of the critical needs of Jews
at home and abroad, this year’s
goal is reaching and educating
evpry Jewish woman in
Charlotte. We believe that when
the needs are understood, con
cern for fellow Jews will
generate the dollars that buy life
and dignity.
For the campaign so far, 42
cards have been signed for a
total of $7826. This is an in
crease of $2402 over last year’s
total of $5424 for the same cards.
January 8, from 7-10 p.m. the
third worker training session
will be held at the home of Jane
Goodman, 800 Longbow, 366-
’ 'work are 26 of ^
THURSDAY
AUVE II
Co-sponsored by B’nai B’rith
Women Charlotte Chapter
SPEAK-EASY-SPANISH
8 weeks - l\ies. and Thurs.
Begins February 7th
PAINTING
II weeks, Begins Jan. 10th
BKOINNEK’S CAKK UiSCcj
8 sessions, Be^ns Jan. 17th
BODY MASSAGE
6 sessions. Begins Feb. 7th
GREAT DECISIONS
8 sessions. Begins Feb. 7th
In the month of January the
campaign will, via a community
Phonathon and Newcomer
Teas, attempt to reach another
350 women. Campaign efforts to
reach a total community always
fall short of the goal. This year’s
campaign coordinators indicat
ed that women who have not
been reached and want to make
a pledge are urged to contact
Lynn Woodruff at the Federa
tion Office (366-0358).
The campaign will officially
end March 8, 1980 with a
luncheon honoring all women
pledging over $100 to the 1980
Campaign. This year, for the
first time, the Cabinet will print
programs honoring the women
who have contributed in the
following categories;
$100 - 249
250-449
500 - 999
1000 - 1499
1500 +
Luncheon arrangements are
under the direction of Ann Abel
and Florence Jaffa.
It is a Solomon’s Choice
by Marilyn Shapiro,
Pres. Women’s Div.
Federation
In biblical days. King
Solomon was faced with a
serious choice to make. To
day, in Israel, the Jewish
Agency is faced with dire
choices to make.
Some 20,000 elderly are
dependent upon the Jewish
Agency for mere bare
sustenance. Should the Agen
cy reduce the number of peo
ple it helps? Or should it
assist the same number but
substantially cut the less
than $60.00 per month they
are presently receiving?
Israel desperately needs
immigrants. But today many
immigrants do not come to
Israel because there is no
housing for them. Should the
Agency take money from the
elderly, from You^ Aliyah,
from the settlements, to
provide housing for im
migrants, or should it turn
away the people so vitally
needed to help the growth of
Israel?
Rural settlements are a
must for the growth and in
dependence of Israel. In thir
ty years, the Jewish Agency
has helped 500 settlements to
bring the desert and the
barren hills of Israel to fruit-
ful abundance. These
settlements have g^ven the
population a food supply and
also provided a surplus to ex
port and thus earn urgently
needed cash. All but 145 of
these settlements have been
brought to a point of self-
sufficiency. The 145 that still
need help from the Agency
are those that were situated
in places where the prime
consideration was not
agricultural growth, but
defense; settlements on the
Lebanese border, settlements
on key hills in the Galilee.
Should the Jewish Agency
delay help to these
settlements another un
known number of years?
In Youth Aliyah there are
19,500 children from 12 to 18
years of age. Of these 2,500
are immigrant youth. The
other 17,000 come from the
most disadvantaged sector of
Israel’s population, the vic
tims of social and cultural
deprivation to the point
where they are seriously
handicapp^ in learning and
educational achievements.
Youth Aliyah has brought
tens of thousands of these
youth to educational parity
with their peers, not only
preparing them to be
contributing members of
Israeli society rather than a
burden to it, but even more
important, allowing these
human beings to be func
tional adults, to achieve their
potential, to live with dignity.
How does the Agency decide
which 3,000 to 6,000 of these
disadvantaged youth it
should eliminate from the
program?
Why does the Jewish Agen
cy have these Solomon’s
Choices to make? The answer
is frighteningly simple, there
are just not sufficient funds
to make these very essentials
happen.
What can we, as American
Jews, do to help? We can say
“yes, I will be generous”
when we are called to con
tribute to the 1980 Federation
Campaign. During the
month of January each of us,
men and women, will be
called.' Women’d Division
volunteers will call every
Jewish woman in the com
munity. There' will be a
phonathon on January 16,
17, 23 and 24, and many of
you will be called by a group
of volunteer women to do a
telethon.
You will be asked to pledge
as much as you feel that you
can comfortably give over the
next year. A whole year to
pay because our pledge to you
is that we make only one
yearly appeal.
All of us making the calls
feel uncomfortable asking for
money. We do it because we
recognize that all too often
dignity and survival have a
steep price tag. Whatever you
can give will be most
gratefully received on behalf
of the international com
munity which benefits from,
our effortB.
Please think about the
above facts. Please be one of
those who will help to
alleviate the terrible burden
of this Solomon’s choice.
A Woman’s Personal Gift is the
Highest Expression of Her Self Image
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Women's Division Representatives at the recent Federation convention in Montreal. 1. to
r.: Jane Goodman (Campaign co-chairperson), Sally Schrader, Pearl Kier, Mary Zorensky
(National Chairperson Women's Division Council of Jewish Federations) and Bobbi Bern
stein (Campaign chairperson).
Conversations
Over Coffee
Warm Up
Campaign
As the UJ A Campaign begins
to swing into high gear, the
Education C)ommittee will add
its own momentum through a
series of conversations over
coffee during the months of
January and February. These
informal coffee hours will focus
on The Jewish Game of Life:
Are We Playing by the Right
Rules?, a brief overview of the
problems confronting us as
Jewesses today and how the
Charlotte community is deal
ing with them. The Federation
will provide discussion leaders.
Conversations over coffee, ac
cording to Education Chairmen
Bobbie Bernstein and Wendy
Ck)hen, is designed as an in
troduction to the Charlotte
Jewish d!ommunity and the role
the Federation plays. Women
who are new to the community,
or who have been here a few
years but have not yet involved
themselves in Federation, will
form the guest list. The coffees
will serve, therefore, not only as
a welcome type of social gather-
ing, but as a friendly
educational experience.
At least ten hostesses will be
opening their homes for conver
sations beginning on January
^th. Some coffees are being
planned for mornings at 10 a.m.;
others will accommodate the
working woman at 8 p.m. If you
are new in Charlotte, or even if
you are not, and interested in be
ing invited, please call Bobbie
Bernstein at 364-8880, or Wendy
Cohen at 542-1755.
An Informed
Woman Is A
Committed Woman
We recognize the importance
of learning together and educat
ing the community. We will con
centrate on improving the
awareness level of the communi
ty and thereby strengthen the
spectrum of giving.
Some people think that our
local agencies’ dues and charges
cover the entire cost of doing
business. The following ex
amples show that this is not
true.
The Jewish Community
Center receives $45,000 from
Federation. This means that for
every $200 family membership
the Federation gives $112.
llie N.C. Hebrew Academy
receives $20,000 from Federa
tion.
The Blumcnthal Home For
The Aged receives $25,000 from
the Charlotte Federation.
BBYO receives $3,500 from
the Charlotte Federation. Part
of these funds will support a
Charlotte-based full time BBYO
worker.
1,400 Jewish families receive
free copies of The Charlotte
Jewish News each month.
We recognize the importance
of learning together and
of learning together and
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s^engthen the spectrum of the challenge of the 1980
giving. Women's Division Campaign.