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The Charlotte Jewish News - October 1998 - Page 14 Gorelick (Continued from page I) holds. He also headed up the building committee during the move from Dilworth Road to Shalom Park. Bill will be recognized as a Life President of Temple Israel during the 1999 Challenge To Excellence Gala. Bill and his wife Patty have three grown children. Todd and his wife Stacy have two children, Henry and Adelaide, and reside in Charlotte; Marcelle and her hus band Daniel Peck recently moved from Richmond to Charlotte; and Rael lives in New York. In the Jewish community, Bill has served and is serving in count less pivotal offices. As chair of the Building Committee he oversaw the planning and construction of Shalom Park and the Jewish Community Center. He has served as President of key Jewish organi zations including the Jewish Foundation of Greater Charlotte and the Charlotte Jewish Federation. The Hebrew Cemetery is one of Bill’s many interests in the Jewish community and he is currently serving as Treasurer. After graduating from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, Bill returned to Charlotte to begin his business career at Capitol Finance Group, along with his brother, Shelton. After several mergers, the finance group became part of First Union National Bank in 1989. The bank sold Capitol in 1991 and Bill went on to other business interests and today considers himself a per sonal investor. On the civic front, Bill is serv ing or has served on the boards of the Mint Museum, Foundation of the Carolinas, Board of Visitors at UNCC, Queens College Learning Society, Charlotte Alternative Sentencing, Country Day School, Charlotte Symphony, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Art Com mission and other civic groups. He has also served on the City Board of NationsBank. Please make plans to join Tentiple Israel in honoring a Uiily outstanding individual as we embark on our “Challenge To Excellence.” SAVE THE DATE Temple Israel “Challenge to Excellence” GALA Evening of May 15,1999 Adam’s Mark Hotel Honoring Bill Gorelick Benefltting Temple Israel’s Membership Endowment Atlanta (Continued from page 2) pay what their heart decrees. That, he believes, will be enough to sus tain them, though he also antici pates turning to the Atlanta Jewish Federation and private founda tions. Between 125 and 150 followers have turned out each Shabbat for services, and so far, they are putting their money where their hearts are. A congregant donated a suite of offices. And from the first pay check his secretary got from Shema Yisrael, Mintz said, she wrote a $500 check back to the congregation. Mintz, like the other rabbis and prayer leaders, are working with out pay, for now. Fifteen congregants are now each taking out $2,500 personal bank loans to provide Shema Yisrael with most of the $50,000 that it needs to pay its bills now through the High Holidays. Some of that will go for ads, running each of the next three weeks, in the Atlanta Journal Constitution and in the city’s Russian Jewish newspaper, pro moting the congregation’s free Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services. Services will be conducted in the Atlanta Civic Center, which can hold up to 4,000 people. Because just 30,000 of Atlanta’s estimated 80,000 Jews are affiliat ed with any Jewish organization, Mintz thinks it will be possible to fill all the seats. In the course of bringing such diverse religious ideologies together, Shema Yisrael has already faced a few challenges. One Shabbat morning the Conservative prayer leader could not come, so Mintz led an Orthodox service up until the Torah reading, when the egalitari an group took over. “There was some degree of discomfort, but there was respect. No one left, which was amazing,” he said. And the movable hotel ballroom walls do not entirely block sound from neighboring sections. When Cheryl Joss, a member of the Orthodox/traditional section, was setting up the joint kiddush on Shabbat morning, she could hear the sounds of the Reform guitar coming from one side, and the sound of the Orthodox cantor’s voice coming from the other. “The sound of the instrument was absolutely foreign,” said Joss, who works in real estate, “but this whole idea is about acceptance and tolerance, and it made me feel great to think we are all Jews, but all doing our own thing. It was quite a moving experience.” Another congregant, Alexandra Moore, goes to the Reform ser vice. She had not been to syna gogue for 20 years, she said, but is finding something at Shema Yisrael that she cannot imagine at any other congregation. “I’m interested in seeing how this concept evolves, because I think it’s quite unique and a mod ernist idea,” said Moore, who teaches literature and performs modem dance. Married to a non-Jewish man, Moore feels more comfortable here than she has anywhere else. “This environment is accepting, an unconditional acceptance of all people,” she said. “Non-judgmental acceptance” is his goal, says Mintz. “In this tiny iitde way, it could happen, our coming together without judging each other. And if it could happen here, maybe it really could happen everywhere for the Jewish peo ple.” 0 (704) 364-3300 BUSINESS. 364-1092 FAX (704) 362-4295 »102 VM. 849-2555 RES. SH/^n MARCUS REALTOR* COt_DlUeLL COLOWELL BANKER FLCHJHOUSE, REALTORS* 6633 FAIRViEWROAO CHAFM.0TTE. 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Greenberg said, “it means we real ly got the message across.” Greenberg, who also is a mem ber of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, said the Swiss banks settlement “will be a further stimulus” to preserving the memo ry of the systematic murder of six million Jews. The publicity surrounding the Swiss-Jewish negotiations “is a further reminder of what was done or not done in the Holocaust,” he said. Benjamin Meed, the president of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, said the issue behind the Swiss negoti ations and similar restitution talks is not one of money, but of moral ity. “It’s a question of how do we complete the 20th century and how we should enter the 21 st cen tury.” One of this country’s leading Holocaust scholars agreed. “This is not reparation, this is not guilt money,” said Deborah Lipstadt, a professor of Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. “This is the plain old result of attempted robbery by banks,” she said. “We’re talking about goods and valuables because the people are gone.” For the Holocaust survivors, most of whom are now in their 80s, who will receive some pay ment from the settlement, there is another concern - that a well-pub- licized fight for their rightful pos sessions, more than 50 years after World War II, will be a sorry post script to their own lives. 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