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P.O. Box 13369 Charlotte. NC 2822fi Address Correction Requested Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Charlotte, NC Permit No. 1208 The Charlotte >3EW1SH TNEWS Vol. 12 No. 3 Charlotte, North Carolina March 1990 Operation Exodus Begins Federation Board Unanimously Supports Russian Resettlement Effort In keeping with the Charlotte Jewish community’s commit ment to our global Jewish com munity, the Executive Commit tee and Board of Directors of the Charlotte Jewish Federation unanimously agreed to partici pate in the resettlement locally of Soviet Jews. The Council of Jewish Fed erations, in an historic and unprecedented request, has asked Federations throughout the United States to help resettle 80,000 Soviet Jews who are waiting for placement. In keep ing with the equitable, collective responsibility formula devel oped by Mendel Berman, Pres ident of the Council of Jewish Federations and his task force, Charlotte has agreed to partic ipate by beginning to resettle Soviet families. According to the request of CJF and UJA, communities throughout the United States and Canada are being asked to resettle families and raise money to help defray the cost of reset tlement of Soviet families emi grating to Israel. In addition to the 40,000 Soviets who must be resettled in the United States, the North American Jewish commu nity is asked to help raise an additional 420 million dollars above and beyond their regular obligations to help defray the emergency costs of Israel’s reset tlement and needed aliyah. This special campaign has been named “Operation Exodus,” and will be implemented in Charlotte later this year. In addition to resettling a number of Soviet families or raising our fair share of dollars to go into a national pool earmarked to help defray the cost of resettlement in the United States, we must also raise 56% of our 1988 campaign result which translates into $660,000 payable over a three-year period. What makes this effort even more challenging is that the dollars are needed now since the needs of the emigres must be met through the building of houses in Israel, job training in Israel, teaching of English and Hebrew, and the list goes on and on. Locally, the Charlotte Jewish Federation is spearheading the development of a coalition for Soviet Jewry which will be a communalization of the total effort to help meet the needs of Soviet Jews. All agencies and organizations will be participat ing in this historic event. As developments break, the Jewish community will be kept in formed. For more information on the historic efforts now taking place, or if you would like to help in the Soviet resettle ment, please call the Charlotte Jewish Federation office, 366-5007. Briefing on Soviet Jewry • Anti-Semitism is gromag in the Soviet Union. With the economy slipping from chaos to catastrophe and ethnic strife tcafiiig ^apart the Soviet empire, **Riissian nationaliste look for'ditprfts Itnd they usually find the scap^oat^ of hlitory: the Jews.” (New York Times, January 28, 1990) • Soviet Jews fear pogroms. A gang of sixty goons from Pamyat, a chauvanist Russian national movement, interrupted the January 18 meeting of the Moscow Writers Union with shouts of “Yid” and **Jewish prostitute” (New York Times, January 25,1990) and ^Comrade Jews — leave the hall! WeVe masters of the country! The pogrom will come in a few months!” (New York Times, February 2,1990). The intruders were not arrested. In Moscow, one Jewish resident, Polina K. Esphstein, said the level of fear was considerable, with her neighbors telling tales of new Pamyat members having to supply names and addresses of at least four Jews to their leaders. **We are preparing for a night of the long knives,” she said. (New York Times, February 2,1990) In Leningrad, members of Pamyat and other nationalist groups have been reported openly picketing a subway station shouting anti-Semitic slogans and threatening to harm Jews (New York Times, February 2,1990). “The situation for Jews is terrible now,” said 29-year-old Oleg Rothman, who directed a computer software concern in Riga, See BRIEFING page 15 Community Coalition for Soviet Jewry Formed Emily Zimmem, president of The Charlotte Jewish Federa tion, has appointed Penny Ei- senberg as chair of the Ad Hoc Task Force on Soviet Jewry. Penny, with the help of the committee and Jewish Family Services (an agency of the Fed eration), will make recommen dations to the Federation Board for a total communal effort to help meet the needs of Soviet Jews fleeing to Israel and the United States. As early as late January, a Task Force on Soviet Resettle ment has been meeting to study the costs and logistics of reset tlement locally. Members of this committee are: Penny, Dorothy Ashendorf, Mark Barkan, Peg gy Gartner, Richard A. Klein, Irving Mond, Rita Mond, Deb- by Rosenberger, Peggie Rov- man, Sally Schrader, Marcia Simon, Rabbis Groner, Seigel and Wilson, Adrienne Rosen berg, Jewish Family Services director, and Michael Minkin, executive director of CJF. OPERATION EXODUS: Some of the faces of our Soviet Jewish brothers and sisters who left the USSR to begin new lives in freedom in Jewish communities across the U.S. Photo/Robert Cumins Yom Hashoa Program Sponsored by JCC and Federation On April 22 at 7:30 p.m., the Charlotte Jewish community invites everyone to attend a special program on the com memoration of the six million Jews and five million others who were killed during the Hol ocaust. The program will begin in Gorelick Hall at Shalom Park with the lighting of 11 memorial candles by the second generation of Holocaust survivors and by liberators of the concentration camp victims. Pianist, singer, actress Clau dia Stevens will appear in “An Evening with Madame F” which is based on accounts of musical life in Nazi concentration camps by Fania Fenelon in her book. Playing for Time. A musician and cabaret artist, Fenelon. with other prisoners, performed for Claudia Stevens the SS in order to survive the death camps of Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen. Ms. Stevens, whose amazing versatility mirrors that of Fene lon, recreates the unimaginable horror of Auschwitz and the courage of its inmates. She plays and sings pieces actually per formed by the musicians of Auschwitz, including songs of faith and resistance, from a score developed for her by composer Fred Cohen. The program, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a dessert reception. • Posters of the Holocaust, through arrangement by the Charlotte members of the N.C. State Holocaust Commission, Dr. Susan Cernyak-Spatz, Celia Scher, Irving Mond and Henry Hirschmann, will be on display April 1-30 in the Speizman Galleries of Shalom Park. The community is encouraged and invited to view these posters. The Charlotte Jewish Feder ation, in cooperation with local agencies and organizations, is beginning the massive mobiliza tion to help in the resettlement process which will include the need of additional funding. It is also looking into the need of raising money later this year to help defray the cost in Israel. Because of the added work load on Jewish Family Services, additional staff will be required. Sally Schrader has been hired to work with resettlement of the Russian families in Charlotte. Dr. Jared Schwartz has agreed to chair the campaign portion of this endeavor. Marcia Simon and Adam Bernstein are helping to establish a marketing plan for this massive undertak ing. Richard A. Klein will chair the education/awareness com mittee with the help of our rabbis and the JCC staff. For further information, please call any of these chair people or Mike Minkin, execu tive director CJF, 366-5007. In tife Meivs Calendar 26 Organizations 24 Editorials 2 Recipes 27 Family Services 5 Temples 22 Federation 14-15 This n That 19 JCC 9-11 Tween Teen 12-13 Lubavitch 16-17 World Beat 4 Special Feature From Here to USSR- -Part VII 6 Hebrew Cemetery 25
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