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The Charlotte
There’s a New Team in
Town
The United Way Selects the Jewish
Community Center
“We’ve strived for this for quite
some time and we’re proud to
achieve our goal.” These
were the first thoughts of
Jewish Community
Center President Scott
Menaker, on June 17, as
he announced that the
Jewish Community
Center had been accepted
as a member agency of
the United Way of Central
Carolinas. “We’re hon
ored to team up with the
United Way and to
become a member of the
family of agencies that
are recognized as
providers of the core ser
vices that address the critical
issues of our city.”
This achievement marks a cer
tain “coming of age” for the
Jewish Community Center, In
Hebrew, one of the central tenets
of the Jewish Community Center’s
mission is “tikkun olam.” The
common translation of this phrase
is “repairing
the world.” In
practicality, it
translates into
a myriad of
social service
programs that
enrich lives IMtadVltay
and build
strong relationships that positively
aifect the day-to-day encounters
with thousands of people each
year. As a United Way agency, the
Jewish Community Center will
have greater opportunity to share
the benefits of its efforts with a
larger population of people, from a
broader segment of our city.
Eric Sklut, immediate Past
President of the Jewish
Community Center and a member
of the United Way Board of
Directors, was instrumental in
helping the Center’s Board of
Directors establish the priority of
becoming a United Way member.
Sklut adds, “Our acceptance as a
member agency also brings us a
new level of visibihty, standing
and recognition that comes with a
privilege of displaying the United
Way logo. This fact, coupled with
the onset of constructing ‘new’
facilities gives the Jewish
Community Center a major boost
toward creating the civic image
that reflects our commitment to
assembling the service infrastruc
ture that will have a positive effect
on both our Jewish community
and our city.”
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Vol. 22 No. 7
Tammuz-Av 5760
August 2000
Federation Campaign Sets Another
Record!
$2y078,00 Raised to Aid Jews Locallyy Nationally and Internationally
The path to membership began
in 1999 when the United Way pre-
funds to meet human needs here in
Charlotte and around the world,
and by raising $2,078,000, we
have made great strides,”
Exceeding last year’s total of
$2,045,000, was even a greater
task because of the capital/endow
ment campaign for expansion of
Shalom Park.
Sara Schreibman, Federation
president, remarked, “We are a
growing, vibrant community, with
many diversified needs affecting
all ages. We have to continue to
work harder to meet these needs.
Many people have benefitted from the 1999
United Way grant.
sented the Center with a $46,000
grant to help the Center increase
the capacity of its service to older
adults. The grant spurred the
emergence of the OASIS Older
Adult Center at the JCC, The 1999
grant was followed by a similar
$50,000 grant for 2000. During
the last 16 months the Jewish
Community Center has seen its
program for older adults grow
from serving an average of ten
participants a day, 2 days each
week to serving an average of
more than 35 participants a day, 3
days each week from a diverse set
of zip codes throughout Charlotte.
This unprecedented growth and
success paved the way for accep
tance of the Jewish Community
Center’s membership {^>plication.
In the first year, the Center’s
United Way membership is
accompanied by an allocation of
$85,000 to further increase its
capacity to serve older adults and
to begin new program services for
adult groups. “While these funds
do not alleviate the existing strains
on the Center’s finances, they do
give us a much needed infusion of
new resource to help us develop
new programs to address some of
the needs of adult groups,” com
mented Center Executive Director
Alan Feldman.
Furthermore, added Feldman,
“As a member agency we will
have the opportunity to dialogue
with our sister institutions that
regularly gather to tackle issues of
importance to the development of
Charlotte as a concerned, caring
and giving city. This inter-agency
communication serves as a cata
lyst fw the design snd develop
ment of new progranis and ser
vices that will meet needs as they
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Sara Schreibman, Federation
President
“I am pleased to inform the
community, that the Federation set
another record for the annual cam
paign,” stated Eric Sklut, the cam
paign chair. “Our job is to raise
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Eric Sklut, Campaign Chair
to involve more volunteers and
reach out to people. We have a
wonderful and caring message,
and we want as many people as
possible to hear it.”
Arts & Science Council Awards Grant to
Charlotte Jewish Historical Society
The Arts & Science Council
(ASC) of Charlotte/Mecklenburg,
Inc. awarded one of its In^d-new
History/Heritage Project Program
grants for the 2000-2001 year to
the Charlotte Jewish Historical
Society, a project of the Carolina
Agency for Jewish Education
(CAJE) at Shalom Paik. One of
nine select recipient history/her
itage organizations in the
Charlotte community, the
Charlotte Jewish Historical
Society receives funding for a
one-time project planning/devel
opment grant, to implement a
first-time conservation, preserva
tion and cataloging project for its
growing collections of historic
photos, video oral histories of
longstanding Jewish Charlotteans,
video documentaries, written
records and artifacts which relate
the story of the Jewish heritage
community in Mecklenburg
County, 1867 - 2000.
The ASC grant is a matching
grant. Two local families in the
Jewish community, the Harry
Lemer family and the Robert
Speizman family, have generously
given gifts to CAJE and the
Historical Society to enable 2/3 of
the match which was required for
acceptance in the program. The
Jewish Federation of Greater
Charlotte agreed to participate as
the sponsoring fiscal agent in
administration of the grant. “It is
partnerships like this between the
greater Charlotte community and
the Jewish community which
enrich our cultural life for the ben
efit of those here at Shalom Park
as well as for all residents in the
county,” commented Marvin
Goldterg, Executive Director of
the Jewish Federation of Greater
Charlotte. “The Jewish Federation
is very pleased to enable this kind
of innovative alliance,” he went
on to say.
The ASC grant will enable the
Historical Society to make its col
lections accessible to users,
researclKrs and the general public,
in both the Jewish community and
the at-large community, A part-
time archivist [»oject director will
join the CAJE staff fcM* the grant
program year and will be charged
with the tasks of physical reorga
nization of the collection; label
ing, [Heso^^ation, restoration and
conservation of the collection; cat
aloging all acquisitions in a data
base and creating finding aids;
scaAaiog photographs into digital
format and coordinating histoiicaJ
identification of all photos;
arranging microfilming of special
collecticms; and identifying areas
of the collection that will require
professional expertise and atten
tion at a later time. All the work
that is done will bring the
Charlotte Jewish Historical
Society collections up to current
archival standards of similar
libraries and museums, all in
anticipation of the move into the
new Lifelong Learning Center
here in the new Shalom Park
Jewish educational facilities.
The other eight community
organizations who also received
ASC History/Heritage Project
Program grants in this premiere
year include: Charlotte Museum
of History, Charlotte Trolley,
Historic .Charlotte, Historic
Rosedale Plantation, Latta Place,
Museum of the New South, Ninth
& Tenth Horse Cavalry
Association, and the Public
Library of Charlotte &
Mecklenburg County, “We are dis
tinctly honored to be included
among such a prestigious group of
grantees. The ASC, by awarding
this grant to our wganization, the
Charlotte Jewish Historical
Society, really puts a heksher on
all the work that the volunteers
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