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1 The News • October, 1994-Page 19 Qiildren Experience the Jewish Building the Blocks of Jewish-Arab Coexistence Holidays at CJPS 'Tddah,Teruvah,9^arimand Tekiah Gadolah" was heard last month by all the students at CJPS thanks to a visit from David Block of the Temple Israel Shofar corps. They heard the real sound of the shofar and many also got a chance to blow the shofar and find out for themsleveshowdifficultitwas. This activity allowed the children to hear sounds of the holiday, but other We love Shabbat! activities through the allowed them tocdsosee, touch and smell el- ementsof all tfie fall Jewish holidays. Rosh Hashanah was further cel ebrated by earing apples and honey, round challot, and baking honey- apple muffins. These wonderful tastes will surely be remembered by our studentsas they starta sweet New Year. For Yom Kippur celebration, many made Tzedakah boxes. Fur thermore, the four year olds enjoyed Tashlich, or throwing bread into a body of water, which symbolizes casting our sins away. This was re ferred to by one teacher as "throw- October at Temple Israel by Lisa Taub Terr^IsradSsteihood isnow selling Entertainment '95 Coupon Books. They are still only $30 and profits from this project wiU held fund Temple Israel's simcha parties and other youth activities. They are available in the Gift Shop, Temple office. Preschool office and other neighborhood areas. For more information, call Linda Goldberg (362-7304). Also, please note that a percentage fncMTi all flow ers ordered from Elizabetii House (342-3919) and billed through Temple Israel Sisterhood will ben efit Temple Israd's Flower Fund, so consider Elizabetii House for your floral needs. Rnally,theTen^leIs- rad Gift shop has iBoeived new ship ments of beautiful merchandise. Come and browse this excellent se lection of Judaica gifts, wedding and baby gifts, and Bar and Bat Mitzvah gifts. TTve Jewish Books Discussicwi Group will meet cffi October 24 to discuss poetry by Gerald Stem, Linda Pastan, Marge Piercy, Ruth Whitman, Albert Goldbarth, Adrienne Ridi and Robert Pinsky. The poetry anthology is available from the Speizman Jewish Utwaiy. Meetings are open to aU members of the Jewish community and "drop- ins" are wdoome. Pteasecall Linda ing your nasties away." On Sukkot, many classes built a pretend sukkah with blocks, boxes and crepe paper. All the students then travelled to Temple Israel to decorate a real sukkah and eat a snack under it. The children also had the opportunity to small a real etrog as well as shaldng a lulav to symbolize that God is everywhere. Just watch the children and you'll know it's tme! In celebration of Simchat To rah, the children made flags and marched to Temple Beth El where Rabbi Bennett taught about the To rah and allowed the children the op portunity to see the Torah "up close and personal". As director, Debbie Block, notes, it is through doing, touch ing, seeing and hearing that the chil dren leam and remember. Hear the sound of the Shofar! Levy (366^2 or377-8982) or Ruth Warat (542-8278 or 522-6488) for details. On Sunday, November 6 at 8f)0 pm, the Fifth Annual Luski Fami lies Concert will takeplaceat Temple Israel. This year, the theme of the concert is "AnEvening with Leonard Bernstein" and it will feature per- fcxmanoesby Gene Kavadk),Charies Rosekranz, Viva Klezmer, Alan Kaufman Tno, Marlene Fuerstman and Singers of Opera Carolina. Re- fteshments will be served following the concert. Please contact the Temple Office (362-27%) for ticket informatim. Temple Israel Sisterhood Paid- Up Membership Luncheon and Vintage Fashion Show hr NIckI Levine, Renee Steiner, Fayne Fischer, Karen Ransenberg, Mae Goldman and Gloria Paper. In the Arab-Jewish town of Ramie, outside of Tel Aviv, a Jewish family and an Arab family, who both lived in the same house at different times, have dedicated their conruriOTi home to a tangible expression of positive Jewish-Arab relations. The Open House project is an allegory of the partnership forged between two people tied to the same land. Dahlia Landau, the Jewish woman who grew up in the house after1948, her husband Ydiezkel and the Pales tinian Al-Khary family, who lived in the house until their expulsion in 1948, were brought together by the house, and, as a result, transformed the elements of a divisive struggle into a promising alliance TTie two families met after the 1%7 War. This particular meeting had a powerful impact cai the young Oskar Schindler, the German businessman whosaved hundredsof Jews in a Krakow concentration canr»p by ha ving them woik for him in a labor camp nnanufacturing pots and pans, was himsdf saved by a let ter from two Jewish organizaticxis Jewish woman, who realized her childhood memories were tragically entwined with tiioseof an Arab fam ily now living in Ramallah. To re capture the past in a new light and transform the tragic history of their shared home into a positive en deavor, Ms. Landau and the Al- Khary family have embraced a common vision for the next genera tion of Ramie through Open House. Today, Open House, through a series of programs, helps both Ar abs and Jews knock down negative stereotypes about each other and build bridges into each others' communitites. Activities for Jewish and Arab youth include a summer PeaoeCanrq?andaJewish-Arabsoouts prpgrarrL. Open Housealso provides tutorial help for elementary school students who need it as well as com- to the American Joint Distributicm Committee (JDC) testifying to his lifesaving role during the Hokxaust Kept for years in JDC archives, the original letter was donated to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washir^;ton,DC. puter and English classes. There is also a day care center for Muslim and Christian-Arab children and parenting skills workshops for par • ents. Due to its success among both Arabs and Jews in Ramie, Open House is attracting residents of neighboring Lod as well. Ramie is an ideal site for a co existence project such as Open House since the mixed Arab (18%) and Jewish city of 55,000 is often described as a microcosm of Israel. In the backyard of this symbolic home for coexistence, Arab children play around a lemon tree which was planted decadesagoby the AI-Khaiy family. That tree now stands as a tes timony to Open Houses' dedication to establishing and even dialogue between Arab and Jewish children of its community. The letter, which ws translated from Polish, states: Trom our own conviction and experiences, as we ha ve among us people who worked there, we can cmfirm that he saved thelivesoflXXX)Jewsata time when death threatened ti>em without fail immediately before the end of the war.,.we further wish to declare that if it were not for the efforts of Oskar Schindler the majority of tfKJse em- ptoyed by him wouki not have lived tfiroughthewar," In 1947SchindlCT asked fOT and received help from JDC, based on this letter and otfier documents veri fying tf^t he had saved hundreds of jews by having them work in labor camps at Krakow and then at Kuennlitz. Schindler reoeived funds from JDC to rebuild his life after tfie war, first in Ai^gentina, then bacic in Germany. He n\ade htcjuent vis its to the JDC office in germany to collect his funds as he rec|uired them, to pay off debts and to purchase equipment for a nutria ranch in Ai]gentina. The Director of Open House, Michail Fanous, tackles a puzzle with two of the program's toddlers Letter Verifying Oskar Schindler's Role in Saving Jews rMtt «i* «• • « rnrnrntm O* hMtM m •If ■ t|«i IMoy*?** ait 1 ■ Pictured Is an excerpt of a letter from two Jewish organizations, MIzrachI Tora Waawoda and The Unified Democratic Zionists, verifying Schindler's role In saving Jewish lives during the Holocaust.
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