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CAJE Announces Winners of the
2000/5760 Eleventh Creative Project of
the Year Awards
The Carolina Agency for
Jewish Education (CAJE), central
agency for Jewish education in
Charlotte and in the greater
Carolinas region, is pleased to
announce the award winners of
our eleventh statewide Creative
Project of ihe Year awards pro
gram — a competition to reward
teachers in Jewish religious
schools for their successful contri
butions to creative Jewish teach
ing. The winning teacher or team
in each of three award category
divisions receives a $75 cash prize
and $25 cash prizes are awarded to
each of their respective schools:
First Place - individual Lesson
Rabbi Robert Kasman, Jason
Cathcart, Teinple Israel
Religious School, Charlotte, NC
Project — Resolving Disagree
ments
First Place - Ongoing Unit
Marci Brumberg, Jewish
Community Religious School,
Roanoke, VA
Project — Words That Hurt,
Words That Heal: An All-School
Program
First Place - Early Childhood
Beth Shalev, Jewish Community
School of Wake County,
Raleigh, NC
Project — Hebrew Calisthenics —
Kinesthetic Multi-Sensory
Approach to Teaching Hebrew
Projects were judged on their
Judaic content, learning objec
tives, replicability, age appropri
ateness, completeness, overall
presentation and course.
Creativity!
In addition to the top award
winners, the following teachers
and schools across the Carolinas
participated in the 2000/5760
awards program:
Certificates of Merit awarded to:
Rabbi Judy Schindler, Jennifer
Foley, Limor Plotkin, Jewish
Community Center of
Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
Chavayah: Camp Shalom Summer
Day Camp Judaic Program
Katherine A. Goldstein, Temple
Israel Religious School,
Charlotte, NC
Jewish Values: Aseret ha-Dibrot
— Ten Times God Spoke
Rabbi Robert Kasman, Dalia
Widis, Temple Israel Religious
School, Charlotte, NC
Learn Numbers, Colors, Face in
Hebrew for Early Childhood
All project entries are included
in the CAJE Resource Center per
manent Jewish education curricu
lum idea bank in Charlotte. An
annotated, fully searchable index
of the Curriculum Bank is avail
able on computer diskette. The
index contains more than 170 pro
jects that have been submitted to
the Bank during the past decade.
For a copy of the complete anno
tated index of the (Curriculum
Bank, send a formatted 3-1/2”
diskette to the Resource Center,
and it will be promptly returned to
you. For more information about
the Creative Projects awards pro
gram or the Curriculum Bank and
index, call, fax, email, contact us
via the WWW, or write CAJE at:
Carolina Agency for Jewish
Education, 5007 Providence
Road, Charlotte, NC 28226,
(704) 366-5007, ext. 6780 or
(704) 944-6780, fax (704) 365-
4507, email: lsstein@vnet.net,
homepage on the worldwide web:
http./Zusers.vnet.net/lsstein/.
Kol ha-kavod — congratulations
— to all this year’s winners.
Last Three Copies of The Jews of
Charlotte for Sale
Jewish Historical Society Received Copies
as a Giftfrem Author's Son .
The Charlotte Jewish Historical
Society, a project of the Carolina
Agency for Jewish Education
(CAJE), is pleased to announce
that it has acquired the last three
extant copies of Morris
Speizman’s book. The Jews of
Charlotte. Each copy is auto
graphed by the author and is in
pristine original condition com
plete with the original book jacket.
These remaining copies were a
gift of Robert Speizman, the
author’s son, to the Charlotte
Jewish Historical Society. We
acknowledge, with gratitude, this
special gift. We are making these
three copies available at
$ 100/each: funds raised from this
sale are a tax deductible donation
to the Charlotte Jewish Historical
Society and will go to support its
ongoing project work. There are
no plans to reprint this volume,
which makes these editions very
valuable. What a wonderful gift
for the right recipient! If you are a
Charlotte Jewish native, or if
Charlotte is your adopted home,
this is your very last chance to
enjoy owning a copy of this one-
of-a-kind book. It narrates the his
tory of our Jewish conmiunity and
includes many photographs of
people and places. Please call
CAJE at 944-6780 or email at
A Chronkle with
(ximinentary
and Conjectures
JEMS OF
CHARlOm
MORRIS SPEIZMAN
lsstein@vnet.net to make the con
nection to own a copy of the book,
and to help support a wonderful
conmiunity project. When these
three copies are gone, there will be
no more.
NC Hillel Welcomes New Staff as Building
Nears Completion
This fall. North Carolina Hillel
will undergo some of the most
dramatic changes in its 64 year
history. A new Executive Director,
Or Mars, will take the reins just as
our long-awaited new facility on
Cameron Avenue in Chapel Hill is
readied for occupancy.
Or comes to NC Hillel with a
wealth of experience in the Jewish
community behind him. He has
woiked at the Jewish Community
Center on the Upper West Side of
New York, and at the Brandeis-
Bardin Institute in Los Angeles.
He also directed the SOVA kosher
food pantry in L.A.
Or is an informal Jewish educa
tor, currently concluding a two
year fellowship in Jewish educa
tion and philosophy in Jerusalem.
He is married to Rabbi Sharon
Mars and has two children.
**I am thrilled to be moving
with my family to Chapel Hill to
work with the Jewish college •‘lu-
dents of North Carolina,” Or said.
“NC Hillel is a crucial element of
a thriving Jewish community and I
know that it will continue to
enrich the lives of the students and
be a source of positive energy for
the entire Jewish community and
for the entire campus community
as well. To have such a wonderful
job in such a beautiful part of the
country is a dream come true.”
As Or moves to Chapel Hill,
NC Hillel bids farewell to Rabbi
Ed Elkin, who leaves us after four
years to take a position as a con
gregational rabbi in Toronto.
The Executive Ehrectorship is
not the only staff position under
going change this year. Our pro
gram director for UNC-CH, Kes
Spilker, leaves us to get married
and hike the /Vppalachian Trail,
We are delighted, however, to wel
come Sho-^^uina Kaufman to the
NC Hillel team as our new pro
gram dircr:nr ^hos.Ii«n i a 1998
graduate of Brandeis, comes to
Chapel Hill from Tallahasee. She
brings a tremendous commitment
to helping our students create as
rich and varied a Jewish life at
UNC as they possibly can.
We are also proud to report that
UNC will be back this fail in the
Steinhardt Jewish Campus Service
Corps fellowship program after a
year’s hiatus. Matt Oreenberg will
be our Kaplan fellow for 2000-
2001, and he will be working very
hard to engage in Jewish life those
students who don’t normally think
about coming to Hillel. Matt is
from Cleveland, and graduated
this year from Ohio University in
Athens. While at OU, Matt served
as president both of his Hillel
Student Programming Board and
of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity.
He also worked for a local sports
radio station and co^hed an 8th
grade basketball te^n. Matt is a
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