Terrible
Crime
WHY WOULD... who would...
who could ... steal from a sacred
place of worship. Temple
Emanuel, a place where people
come to close to God. To ask
forgiveness for their sins, no
matter how large or how small.
To ask understanding and for
giveness for themselves and
their fellow brothers and sisters,
mattering not what religion
they may choose to follow.
Articles of worship that have
a value far Iwyond money and
helped to car^ on a sense of
tradition, a pride of possession,
a closeness to our religious
history. These ancient articles
that were cherished by our fore
fathers, our children and, we
had hoped, our children’s
children for generations to
come, were so coldly and cruelly
stolen from our house of God,
Temple Emanuel.
I ask why? What reason could
the thief have had? Of the many
possible reasons, I choose to
believe that it was for money.
I ask who would? What kind
of person would steal frx>m a
holy sanctuary? I feel that he
had to be very desperate. He
might be a hard, uncaring,
thoughtless individual with no
sense of value, but I choose not
to believe that,
I ask who could? Could it have
been someone that was fully
aware of the repercussions of his
action? The act of stealing is an
insult, a smack in the face, a
scof^g of the privacy of the vic
tim. Victimizing an entire com
munity by one act of thievery is
a crime of untold magnitude.
As a member of that com
munity, I appeal to anyone that
comes in contact with ^e stolen
articles. Lrt your conscience
guide you in the only direction
you have to choose. Call me,
Anita Miller, at 867-7799 or call
Tenfple'. \Pre8ident> '^fetarlleiai
Kat2enstein at 864-8491 with
any informiption or a location
where the items can be found.
Anita Bfiller
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Page ll-THE NEWS-September 1980
Recently we attended the
Pineville Dtnner Tlieatre to
see Neil Simon’s “Chapter
Two.” Neither of us had seen tiie
play or the movie so we really
looked forward to the evening.
We were not at all disappoint^
with this delightful and well
directed comedy and it seemed
the rest of the audience felt the
same.
Tlie theatre just celebrated its
14th anniversary and is still
playing to a “full house” even
during the week. Since we were
there last, the food has greatly
improved. The hot buffet that
evening included several well
prepared vegetables plus rice
and potatoes. Entrees were
seafood crepes, which were ex
cellent; a type of tetrazzini and
the usual steamship round of
beef. But for a change, we ac
tually had a choice of well-done,
medium or rare. Disappointing
was the selection of desserts, be
ing only an ambrosia and a
cobbler. These went untasted as
we were quite sated; the other
diners said they were good. Our
ice tea glasses and coffee cups
were constantly replenish^.
Champagne was served after
the performance.
All in all, it was a fun evening
and we hope to return soon.
“Fiddler on the Roof’ begins
Oct. 7 for 5 weeks.
— Editors
Ccmmunity Caiendar
Courtesy of Charlotte Chapter BBW
SEPTEMBER 1980
1 - JCC Chai RafHe
A’Vodah Cake Sale
Devorah Hadassah-Wildacres
2 • B*nai B*rith Lodge Board Meeting
3 - Charlotte Chapter BBW Meeting
Temple Beth ^ Sisterhood Board Meeting
CRT Board Meeting
BBYO Meeting
7 - B*nai B*rith Lodge Initiation Brunch
Kadimah Board Meeting
JCC Cultural Workshops
Temple Beth El Youth Group Pool Party
8 • Hadassah Board Meeting
All Temples Board Meetings
Ha Lailah BBW Board Meeting
14 - JCC • Cultural Sampler - Mint Theater
Community-wide Cemetery Service
16 - JCC • Children's Classes Begin
-Hm I Allah BBW Meeting
16 - Charlotte Chapter BBW Brunch
Sr. Women’s Raffle Drawing
Temple Israel Men’s Club Board Meeting
1 / • Hadassah Meeting
Devorah Hadassah Membership Meeting
CRT Meeting
Hebrew Academy Board Meeting
18 - Senior Women
21 - JCC Family Succoth Program
Kadimah Meeting
Temple Beth El Men’s Club Show Nite
22 • Federation Board Meeting
23 - Temple Israel Sisterhood Board Meeting
26 - Temple Beth El Family Dinner & Service
27 - ORT - Las Vegas Nite
Kadimah - Dinner Dance for New Members
28 • Hebrew Academy Succoth Party
B’nai B’rith Lodge Blaccabean Games
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Charlotte Oiapter BBW Meeting
Temple Beth O Consecration
BBYO Meeting
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Books in Review
How We Lived: A Documen
tary History of Immigrant
Jews in America 1880-1930
by Irving Howe and Kenneth
Libo
Richard Marek Publishers
360 pp. $22.60
For those who read and en
joyed World of Our Fathera.novf
Kenneth Howe and his chief
researcher for that book,
I^nneth libo, have collaborat
ed on a companion piece. How
We Lived: A Documentary
History of Immigrant Jews in
America 1880-1930.
Howe and libo have been
both generous and judicious in
their selections of texts and
accompanying photographs. A
primary purpose of the book, the
editors say, is to present to us as
objectively as possible the way
the Jewish immigrant com
munity lived, worked, prayed
and died. Howe and libo
emphasize that this history is in
danger of being lost — not
because of a lack of historical
sources, but because of a tenden
cy to repress the memory of past
hardships, and then to roman
ticize or prettify the past.
While How We Lived would
complement any coffee table, it
would be a mistake, an insult to
the editors and to the world they
describe, to think of this volume
as a mere picture book. Indeed,
How We Lived may be best
described as an engrossing
anthology of memoirs, news
paper clippings, contemporary
photographs and other
eyewitness accounts of the
origins, growth, religion,
politics, and culture of the
Jewish immigrants who came to
America at ^e end of the last
century and at the start of this
one.
A sketch by S. libin describes
a capmaker’s disastrous
attempt to take his family to the
country for a picnic. A writer for
The Forward advises a worried
parent that baseball is an accep
table sport because it “develops
the arms, legs and eyesight. It is
played in the firesh air. Tlie real
ly wild game is football — the
aristocratic game in the
colleges. Accidents and fights
occur in football, but baseball is
not dangerous.” More often, the
texts include first-person ac
counts of hardships endured in
tenements and sweatshops, a
description of a socialist debate,
a review of Jacob P. Adler as the
Jewish King Lear, a childho^
memory of family or religious
life. Anzi Yezierska is among
the many writers represented,
along with Forward editor
Abraham Cahan, sociologist
Hutchins Hapgood, journalist
Jacob A. Riis, and Rose Pastor
Stokes, the socialist who
married a millionaire. A sizable
number of these excerpts are
made available in English for
the first time.
This book is more than just
words and pictures on paper. It
is a part of our memories. It
reminds us of what we were, and
therefore tells us who we are.
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