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The Charlotte
JEWISH
Vol. 17 No. 3
March 1995
Of Gre/otr Charlotte
Mark and
Alison Lerner;
Stacy and Dan
Levinson, Chair
1995 Super
Sunday Efforts
By Milton Silver
Answer the Call! On Sunday,
March S, hundreds of volun
teers in Charlotte will be l^lping
raise money and aware
ness for the Jewish Fed-.
eration Community
Campaign in a.
massive effort^
known as Super
Sunday. As the
culmination of the annual cam
paign that helps raise nwney to help
support Jewish causes in Charlotte
as well as around the world, these
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(L-R) Mark and Alison Lemer;
Stacy and Dan Levinson
volunteers will be calling over
4,000 people on March Sth.
The dollars that you contrib
ute will help: from assisting the
elderly in the Blumenthal Home
to aiding Jews hoping to escape
anti-semitism, from giving a help
ing hand to poor and hungry Jews
who need assistance, to subsidiz
ing local Jewish education, from
underwriting JCC social and edu
cational programs to responding at
a moment’s notice to assist Jews
in danger. By “answering the
call,” your contribution will ensure
and promote Jewish continuity,
leadership and community in
Charlotte, Israel and around the
world.
The 1995 Super Sunday effort
is being organized by chaircouples
Mark and Alison Lemer and Stacy
and Dan Levinson. In eariy Janu
ary they began meeting with the
1995 Super Sunday committee
members: Dave Gnibler, Milton
and Karen Silver, Albot and Janice
Nalibotsky, Julie Pearl, Fred and
Jill Lewis and George and Anckea
Cronson. They laid the ground-
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“Old Age Is Not
For Sissies”
CHS Visits Blumenthal Home
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By Sue Brodsky, Director
The morning of Sunday, January 29th came in with sleet, ice and
gray skies, but that did nothing to dampen the spirits of the more
than seventy eighth and ninth graders and their teachers as they
boarded charter buses en route to the Blumenthal Jewish Home in
Clemmons, NC. Consolidated High School of Jewish Studies students
were well-prepared for their trip to visit the residents at Fair Oaks. They
descended on the senior citizens eager to take their oral histories, to
present each one with beautiful flowering plants and to visit and kibbitz
with them. The evening before was spent sensitizing students to the
Maml Stnimwaaeer, a ninth grader it CHS, Chats with two new friends at
the Bhjmenthal Jewish Home for th Aged in Clemmons, N.C.
Darren Katz, Brett Elko and Jennifer WyemuNer accompany a
Fair Oaks resMent tMCk to her room
physical limitations and ennotional needs of the aged and preparing the
students for what they would find at the Blumenthal Jewish Home for
the Aged.
As a follow-up activity, students were asked to write letters to the
residents with whom they especially enjoyed speaking. The letters will
be included with a i^iotograph album of our visit, that we will send to
the Home. Some of the letters follow:
Dear Jack and Louise,
I would like to express my utmost appreciation to you for sharing
your insight on the world with me. Your words were taken straight to the
heart and stored for a rainy day. Again, thank you. and may your mar
riage last another 58 years!
Take Care and Mazel Tov!
Jonathan Friend
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Sweetheart Beau Dance:
A Smashing Success
By Rachel Diamond and Mark Resnik
On February 4,1995, Char
lotte B’nai B’rith Youth
Organization hosted the
annual, semi-formal social for
members from across North Caro
lina and Virginia. The dance was a
smashing success! Over 125 Jew
ish youth attended the event which
was held at Temple Beth El.
brother or sister chapter. Jesse
Lepow, who was chosen to be on
court, expressed his feelings, “It
was an honor to be on court, and I
know I will remember it for the
rest of my life.” Of the fourteen
girls and twelve guys elected to
court, one special girl and one spe
cial guy were chosen to be
Aden Norwood and Eric Seitlin, Chariotte BBYO’s
1995-1996 Sweetheart and Beau.
The function was coordinated
by Charlotte’s own Carey Stem,
Eric Seitlin, and Eric Rolnick. The
coordinators were in charge of
overseeing committees which or
ganized decorations, invitations,
food, housing, music, and logis
tics. Members from both Mickey
Barak Aberman AZA and Chai
Chaverim BBO assisted by serv
ing on various committees. Megan
Keene, N’siah (President) of Chai
Chaverim BBC commented on the
woric ethic of the committees, “1
diink it was really great ho\V the
chapters came together to plan
such an incredible evening. The
decoration committee transfmmed
the Temple Social Hall into a
glamorous ballroom. We would
like to take this opportunity to
thank Temple Beth El for gra
ciously donating their Fellowship
Hall.”
The focus of the evening is the
presentation of the Sweetheart and
Beau Courts. Each chapter nomi
nates members who they feel have
contributed to the success of the
crowned the Sweetheart and Beau
for the ensuing year. Eric Seitlin
of Mickey Barak Aberman AZA
was chosen as Beau of Chai
Chaverim BBC. “It was really nice
to be Beau because it proves that
hard woric for my chapter pays off
and I am also looking forward to
iMinging the giris candy next year,”
said Eric. Adan Norwood of Chai
Chaverim BBC, was the lucky giri
to represent her chapter as Mickey
Barak Abennan’s Sweetheart Af
ter court, the new Sweetheart and
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