The Charlotte Jewish News - August 2001 - Page 11
CAJE
NC ECHO — The Future of the Past
From possum to papyrus, it’s
on the Internet and “North
Carolina ECHO (Exploring
Cultural Heritage Online)” makes
finding it just a bit easier. North
Carolina ECHO is a new service
that brings information about the
state’s historical and cultural trea
sures within a mouse click to any
one, whether that treasure is in
Duke University’s collection of
Egyptian papyri or the Bellhaven
Museum’s depression-era canning
exhibit, prominently featuring a
jar of possum. A visit to www.nce-
cho.org will put over 600 of the
state’s museums, libraries, histori
cal societies, and archives at your
fingertips. It is one of the most
comprehensive guides to a state’s
cultural institutions, and the
Carolina Agency for Jewish
Education is an integral part of the
website.
As institutions scan and mount
portions of their holding on the
Internet, ECHO brings these
online resources together and pre
sents them to the public in an
organized fashion. Click on the
subject “slavery” and find nearly
1,000 slave narratives that have
been digitized by UNC-Chapel
Hill’s “Documenting the
American South” website. Choose
the subject term “poetry” and dis
cover 250 Confederate poetry
broadsides owned by Wake Forest
University. Browse “artists-North
Carolina” to locate a registry of
western North Carolina artists
maintained by the Asheville Art
Museum. Once fully developed,
anyone from school children to
scholarly researchers - from
across the state and around the
world - will be able to use North
Carolina ECHO to search for that
elusive document or fascinating
artifact.
“North Carolina ECHO” is sup-
Jewish Heritage Video Collection
Continues to Grow
The Carolina Agency for
Jewish Education (CAJE) is
pleased to announce that 30 brand
new video titles will be added
soon to the Jewish Heritage Video
Collection, which is displayed in
the JCC lobby. Thanks to a very
generous gift from community
member Richard Osborne, CAJE
was able to acquire this very valu
able, up-to-date set of videotapes.
Some of the new collection of fea
tured titles includes:
The Produce^' (Mel Brooks’
ground-breaking comedy, now a
Broadway sensation)
Life Is Beautiful (Academy
Award winning Holocaust film)
The Last Days (Academy
Award winning documentary from
Steven Spielberg and the Shoah
Foundation)
Delta Jews (award winning
documentary about the Southern
Jewish experience)
Cooking with Joan Nathan
(classic recipes for Jewish cook
ing, celebrating the Jewish soul
and the Jewish spirit)
Liberty Heights (director Barry
Levinson’s coming of age film,
homage to the 1950s)
Summer of Aviya (award win
ning Israeli classic starring Gila
Almagor)
Aaron's Magic Village: based
on the stories of Isaac Bashevis
Singer (animated feature that
brings the stories of Chelm to life
for children)
The Simpsons (two classic
episodes of the TV show that have
Judaic themes)
Want to borrow one of these
new videos? Or any other video
title in the Jewish Heritage Video
Collection of 230 additional
Jewish-themed movies for kids
and adults? Or a video from the
other 425 videos also in the CAJE
collection? Add all that up and it
means that CAJE is home to the
largest Judaic video collection in
the entire southeast region, almost
700 titles from which to choose
for your family’s enjoyment. You
can be part of the excitement, by
joining CAJE. Family member
ships begin at only $ 18/year and
include borrowing privileges in
the video library, as well as in the
Jewish music library, the compact
disk collection and a whole lot
more. For more information, stop
by the CAJE Resource Center at
Shalom Park, or call 704-944-
6780 or email lsstein@vnet.net.
Or pick up a CAJE brochure and
membership application on the
Jewish Heritage Video Collection
display kiosk in the J lobby, mail it
in along with your, check, and you
are “ready, set, go” for the best
bargain in Jewish movie watching
around town. ^
Local Educators to be Featured Authors in
“Venture Into Cultures,” Just Published
by the American Library Association
Venture Into Cultures: A
Resource Book of Multicultural
Materials and Programs - 2nd
edition, edited by Olga R.
Kuharets for the Ethnic
and Multicultural Information
Exchange Roundtable (EMIERT)
of the American Library
Association, Chicago, copyright
2001, ALA Editions, $38.
Knowledgeable and culturally
diverse educators and librarians
come together to offer this new
book filled with fresh, innovative
multicultural program ideas,
just published by the Ethnic
& Multicultural Information
Exchange Roundtable (EMIERT)
of the American Library
Association. This new edition,
which updates the original issue in
1992, has all new content and is
packed with resources for inspir
ing children with the rich textures,
traditions, stories, pictures and
music from around the world.
Featuring African, Caribbean,
Indian, Jewish-American, Korean,
Latin American, Middle Eastern,
Native American and Russian
craft and program ideas, each
chapter features a short essay and
recommended children’s books
(grade levels included), websites,
videos, audiotapes and directions
for programming materials.
Dr. Jay Jacoby, professor of
English at the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC),
and Lenora Stein, executive direc
tor of the Carolina Agency for
Jewish Education (CAJE) at
Shalom Park are co-authors of
the chapter essay and resource
guide entitled Jewish-American.
Included in the chapter is
an extensive bibliography
of almost 100 recent
works that may assist
individuals launching
children’s programming
related to Judaism and
Jewish Americans, all
annotated by appropriate
grade level.
There are hands-on
program ideas which con
vey the Jewish festivals of
Sukkot and Tu B’Shevat,
and embrace the concept
of tzedakah (justice or
righteousness). This new
edition has a short list of
websites, a bibliography
of related publications and
resources and a guide to
publishers of quality edu
cational Judaica materials
for additional reference.
Dr. Jacoby commented
in the essay from the book, “We
hope that this book will expand
significantly young people’s
knowledge and understanding of
Jewish culture. In particular, we
hope that rather than perceiving
Jews almost exclusively as vic
tims, our audiences will recognize
the distinctive nature of Jewish
history and culture and contribu-
ported with federal Library
Services and Technology Act
funds made possible through a
grant from the Institute of
Museum and Library Services,
administered by the Slate Library
of North Carolina, a division of
the N.C. Department of Cultural
Resources.
For more information, please
contact Kevin Cherry at the
State Library of North Carolina,
919-733-2570, or email
kcherry@library.dcr.state.nc.us or
Lenora Stein at CAJE, 704-944-
6780, or email lsstein@vnet.net.
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Do You Remember When?
“Summertime, and the livin’ is easy... ” August 14-20, 1950, a Jewish
community group from Charlotte, NC, poses for a traditional group pic
ture on the steps at Wildacres Retreat in Little Switzerland, NC.
Wildacres Retreat is a conference center offering its facilities to non
profit groups that conduct educational or culture programs and semi
nars. Founded by I.D. and Madolyn Blumentha! in 1946, Wildacres is
dedicated to the betterment of human relations and interfaith dialogue.
It is situated on 1600 acres at an elevation of3300feet atop a mountain
called Pompey’s Knob near the Blue Ridge Parkway. Jewish groups
such as B’nai Brith, the Yiddish Institute of the Charlotte, JCC, and
Temple Beth El maintain the tradition of annual retreat programs that
convene at Wildacres (and groups still pose on the steps for the tradi
tional photo op). To learn more about Wildacres, check out the website
at: www.main.nc.us/wildacres/.
Do You Remember When? photos are provided to the CJN from the
digital image archives of the Charlotte Jewish Historical Society, a pro
ject of the Carolina Agency for Jewish Education at Shalom Park.
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