The Charlotte Jewish News - September, 1996 - Page 9
Hadassah
Events
By Leslie Barro
and Suzanne Cannon
We have some great events
planned for the new year so plan
to join us!
**September 8 Paid-Up
Membership Brunch at Temple
Israel at 11:00 am** Cost: $5.00
for members'; FREE to prespec-
tive members.
** October 27 Donor Gala
Evening at Temple Beth El at
7:30 pm**
** November 20 Education-
Study Group at 7:30pm**
**December IS 10th
Anniversary Book & Author
Annual Event in Gorelick Hally
JCC at 7:30pm**
This year’s Book & Author
event is very special. It is our
tenth anniversary and we have
an exiting author coming. Anne
Roiphe is a graduate of Sarah
Lawrence College and a respect
ed author of both fiction and
non-fiction. Her articles have
appeared in the New York Times,
New York Magazine, Parents,
Tikkun, Hadassah Magazine and
Ms. She is also a contributor to
The Jerusalem Report. Her nov
els include Lovingkindness,
Torch Song, If You Knew Me and
Up the Sandbox. Her nonfiction
works include Generation
Without Memory: A Jewish
Journey Through Christian
America and Season Without
Healing: A Holocaust Response.
This annual event is sponsored
in conjunction with the
Speizman Jewish Library. Look
for more details later!
In response to our current
and prospective members’
requests for more meetings and
events to be held during non
working (traditional business)
hours, the Hadassah Chapter is
responding by scheduling sever
al events for the 1996-97 calen
dar during the evening or on
Sunday afternoon. Now you
have no excuse to miss our
events! Please show support for
your Chapter by attending as
many of our events as possible.
With over 600 members in
the Charlotte Chapter, you’re
bound to make new friends, and
are most welcome to join in the
many interesting and important
projects of Hadassah.
If you would like to know
about Hadassah, who we are,
how we change people’s lives,
and how you can participate,
please contact Leslie Barro,
Chapter President at (704) 541-
5166 (office).
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Queen City ORT
by Ruth Silverman
The Queen City Chapter of
ORT hosted a most entertaining
evening of dinner and Bingo at
the Cedarwood Country Club on
Wednesday, July 31,1996. Sixty-
two women attended this fund
raising event
The dinner consisted of a
salad bar and baked potatoes
with various toppings. A variety
of delicious desserts were home
made by ten members of the
organization. While the evening
was filled with much fun and
many laughs, the most signifi
cant result of the affair was that it
raised over $400, all of which
will be contributed to the ORT
organization.
The ORT program aids in
the education of children and
adults in over eighty countries
throughout the world. The focus
of the Program is to teach voca
tional skills which help the par
ticipants become self-sufficient.
Charlotte Welcomes Russian Families I
By Ellen Dubin
For the past several months
volunteers have been busy
preparing for and welcoming
several refugee families from the
former Soviet Union. The most
recent arrivals include Natasha
Selyavo and her toddler Max.
Natasha looks forward to her
husband’s arrival from Latvia
early this Fall. The young mother
plans to work as soon as day care
can be obtained for Max. She
hopes to go to CPCC next year.
Natasha and Max arrived in
Charlotte during July along with
her parents 11’ia and Olga Shvarts
and her 13 year old brother
Eugene. II’ia is an electrical engi
neer and began to work as an
electrician less than three weeks
after his arrival.
Olga is a seamstress who
obtained a job at Highland Mills
the same day as her husband!
Eugene is enrolled in ESL class
es at Hawthorne Traditional
School. He is an eighth grader
who looks forward to improving
his English skills and being with
new American friends. The fami
ly lives in Italian Village apart
ments at Providence Square.
Their welcome was headed by
Susan Rabinovitch from
Lubavitch.
Shasha and Svetlana Ziskind
came from the Ukraine in June.
He is an electrical engineer
whose excellent work enabled
him to land a job very soon after
their arrival. Svetlana is seeking
a part-time job near their Italian
Village apartment.
Their welcome was headed
by Eula Crane and Penny
Eisenberg from Temple Beth El.
Members of the Blyudaya
family have been working for a
cleaning agency since their April
arrival. Boris is still seeking a
position in a hospital or medical
office. His improved English
skills are enabling him to study
for an American medical license.
He plans to take the qualifying
test in June. His mother Tatyana
was a teacher in the Ukraine and
she would like to work with chil
dren as an educator or in a book
store. Her husband Mikael and
daughter Zhanna live with her in
Idlewild Apartments. Their wel
come was headed by Temple
Israel.
All of the families look for
ward to calls and visits from
members of the Charlotte Jewish
community. Contact Ellen Dubin
to find out how to get in touch
with our newest families.
Within the next several
months the Charlotte Jewish
community hopes to resettle
more Jewish Russian refugees.
Towards this effort, the syn
agogues and organizations have
agreed to “sponsor” a family by
helping set up apartments, dri
ving family members to appoint
ments and shopping, making
social calls, being interpreters or
helping to teach English, provid
ing medical, dental, legal assis
tance and taking them to commu
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