The Charlotte Jewish News - January 2013 - Page 10
Torah on Tap
In November, Temple Israel’s
Torah on Tap group learned some
basies about Krav Maga, a non-
eompetitive martial art and eelee-
tie self-defense system developed
in Israel that involves karate, box
ing, muay Thai, kiekboxing, ju
jutsu, wrestling, and grappling
teehniques.
Upcoming Event
On Monday, January 21st we
honor the late, great, Martin
Luther King, Jr. and his role in the
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Civil Rights movement. Join us
on Thursday, January 17 (7 PM)
at Raehael and David Weiss's
home for a traditional Torah on
Tap diseussion about eivil rights
and how the foundations set then
impaet us now. Light snaeks and
beverages will be served. Please
eontaet the Temple Israel offiee
for more information.
Torah on Tap is Temple Israel’s
doorway to Judaism for ages 2H-
in North Carolina.
Visit www.templeisraelne.org
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Temple Israel Social Club
Let our
family care
We invite eouples and singles,
affiliated with Charlotte area syn
agogues, to join our group. Meet
friendly people and enjoy our in
teresting programs and trips. For
more information please eall Irv
ing Bienstoek, 704-542-0094 or
Ruth Goldberg, 704-366-8903,
eo-presidents.
Upcoming Event
Sunday, February 17 at 12:30
PM: Paid up Membership Luneh-
eon and Program at Temple Israel.
Deadline is February 8. Please
send your dues of $18 per person
to Douglas Mann, 137 N. Canter
bury Rd. Charlotte, NC. 28211.
For more information please eall
Ruth Goldberg, 704-366-8903.«
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Charlotte Moms Arrive in Israel
A Trip of a Lifetime for Charlotte Women, Part II
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By Natalie Osman
We have arrived in Israel and
the trip has already exeeeded our
expeetations. Just being together
and bonding with Jewish Moms
from North and South Ameriea
has been a wonderful experienee
and I see more than ever why this
trip is referred to as a Birthright
for Moms. One of the groups
wrote the following poem on the
plane.
/ am going far away.
I am going home.
A land named Israel calls me,
so that's where I’m going to
roam.
For 10 days Fll be inspired,
seeing sights and hearing
sounds.
The nature of this
journey,
may truly know no
bounds.
Faces that are new
now,
will quickly become
friends.
We 're on this trip
together,
where the learning
never ends.
With wonder, we
await,
as our plane will soon
touch down.
In a land that people
treasure.
In a land that is
renown.
At Charlotte-Douglas Airport before flight to Is
rael. Sitting: Andie Taylor, Natalie Osman, Carrie
Rabinowitz, Joanna Wisotsky, Debbie Weiss, Lau
ren Fermaglich; Standing: Leslie Dinkin, Laureen
Martin, Sara Oppenheim, Lilian Becker, Stella
Yukhaev, Alina Zagin, Penny Lipsitz, Michelle
Rusgo, Laurie Berzak, Nikki Sacks, Amy Mullen,
Mindy Mcshane, Cheryl Rabinowitz
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Journal Day 1. We arrived; it
felt so right, so eomfortable to be
together with Jews of all walks of
life. We went straight to Tiberias.
On the bus I felt like a little girl in
a distant land. The seenery was
beautiful and seeing road signs in
Hebrew was a new experienee.
We had arrived about two weeks
after the eease fire and feelings
were welling up inside me. As
mueh as we hear about Israel and
realize it’s a Jewish state, seeing
signs in Hebrew, Jewish workers
ranging from well-dressed exeeu-
tives to street eleaners is new for
me.
Tonight we ate at Deeks, a eon-
eept restaurant in Tiberias. Every
thing they use is loeal, from the
loeal organieally grown vegeta
bles, spiees, and fresh fhiits to su
perb meat. It’s on the water,
overlooking the breathtaking
Kineret (Sea of Galilee) enjoying
the eompany of so many other
women with similar life’s ehal-
lenges and goals. This was the
first day and everyone was ex
hausted but our sheer joy gave us
adrenalin and everyone started
daneing.
Day 2: We went to the aneient
and mystieal eity of Tzfat. It’s rieh
in history and was the home of the
Kabbalists in the 16th eentury and
when one walks in the Old City on
eobblestone streets along winding
roads, there’s a speeial feeling that
permeates the air. We spent time at
the artists’ eolony and their works
were refreshingly diverse. We ate
at a eharming restaurant where the
staff was dressed like biblieal
eharaeters.
Day 3. We heard a leeture from
a historian about anti-Semitism.
The foeus of it was not so mueh
the history but rather the reasons
people throughout the eenturies
have hated Jews. The eonelusion
was a new eoneept for me and re-
inforeement for partieipants about
what a privilege it is to be Jewish.
We sometimes forget that the
“Judeo-Christian” heritage, whieh
ultimately was the inspiration for
the founding fathers, begins with
Jews. Later on we went to Yad
v’Shem, Israel’s Holoeaust me
morial. It was more moving than I
had expeeted. I guess the faet that
seeing a Holoeaust memorial in
the eountry that was the haven for
so many survivors, makes this par-
tieular museum different from oth
ers.
Later that day we heard from
two mothers whose sons had been
vietims of terrorists. They were
part of an organization ealled One
Family, whose mission it is to be
the voiee of Israel’s vietims of ter
ror attaeks. I ean’t write any more
about this day; my head is swim
ming with thoughts.
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