The Charlotte Jewish News -February 2006 - Page 13
Youth Visions
Hebrew High Students Help the Needy
and Have Fun, Too
Hebrew High is not only
about learning Torah, history
and Jewish culture. The CHS
student council members lead
their peers in many tzedakah
projects throughout the year.
These projects teach our young
adults the importance of caring
for their neighbors in the Jewish
community and beyond.
Creating caring Jewish leaders
for the future is one of our main
goals at Hebrew High.
Our December pizza dinner
was a huge success. The
students donated $100
dollars to Jewish Family
Services, along with over
30 gift cards that JFS dis
tributed to needy families
during the holiday sea
son. Having fun and
helping others is a spe
cial focus at Hebrew
High.
This year’s 8th and 9th
grade retreats will focus
on tikkun olam (repairing
the world), as we train
our students to become
Mitzvah Clowns. The
David Goldsmith. Jonathan Cohen, and
Alex Comen.
Standing, left to right: Lauren Whetstone,
Jessica Rosenfeld, Emily Maguire, Dana
Udelson, Lauren Eisendorf; kneeling: Reid
Worrel.
Federation Missions to Israel
(Continued from page 5)
Hadera, a city which has
grown over 30% by the
influx of Ethiopians and
Russian immigrants, has a
never ending laundry list of
needs created not just by
immigration but also by the
terrorist attacks in Hadera
during the past five years.
In November, seven
women traveled to Hadera as
a reciprocal visit for the
Hadera Women’s Forum trip
to Charlotte in August 2004. We
arrived just ten days after the
October 26 devastating bombing
in the center of the city of Hadera.
Roz Cooper, Susan Jacobs,
Hannah Kaunitz, Sue Klein, Nicki
Ostrow, Linda Seigel and I spent a
week in Hadera hosted by Israeli
families in their homes. The
Hadera Women’s Forum is spon
sored by the Partnership 2000
Southeast Consortium, but the
Women’s Forum is a Charlotte
project that will move with us as
we enter the Charlotte/Hadera
Partnership. Monthly phone calls
take place between-the two groups
of women to mentor, partner and
oversee the activities of the busi
ness and professional networking
groups funded by the consortium.
In Hadera the mission participants
were overwhelmed by the out
pouring of love and friendship
which awaited us. Each day and
evening were spent visiting
women’s businesses - including a
gym, a plumbing and restaurant
supply business, a caterer, dance
studio, women’s specialty shops
and artists’ studios. We also
attended program meetings such
as one with over 100 women at
the business and professional
entire class will learn to dress,
sing and act like clowns. The
group will visit hospitals and
assisted living facilities in our
area.
Hebrew High is a great place
for Jewish teens to learn about
their heritage and to put Jewish
values into practice. It’s not too
late to join the fun and learning.
Questions? Call Roz at 704-944-
6782. ^
The entire women s forum.
group and a pot luck dinner and
speaker with the mother-to-moth-
er volunteers. During a special
one day visit to Harish, the mis
sion participants presented fifteen
blankets made by Charlotte’s
BBG girls to children who live in
a Warm House, a day care facility
established to serve the fifteen
neediest children in the area.
Partnership 2000 is a “people to
people” endeavor to develop ties
between Jews in the Diaspora and
Jews in Israel. During the two
missions to Israel, the ties
between Hadera and Charlotte
were very obvious in the genuine
friendship and caring that have
developed between the people in
each of our communities. During
both missions teachers, teens,
police officers and dignitaries
who have visited Charlotte came
out to welcome us, and at each
meeting renewed friendships were
rekindled and new friendships
bom.
A Community Mission to Israel
which will include a special visit
to Hadera is being planned for the
fall of 2006. For more informa
tion, please contact Sue Worrel,
Executive Director of the Jewish
Federation at 704-944-6779.
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