The Charlotte
An Affiliate of the Jewish Federation
of Greater Charlotte
JEWISH
Vol. 36, No. 2
Adar I 5774
February 2014
Hadassah Health Night
2014
The Charlotte Chapter of
Hadassah presents Women: Well
ness 2014 on February 11 at Tem
ple Israel from 7-9 PM.
This program is free and open
to all members of Hadassah, their
guests, and members of the
greater Charlotte eommunity.
We have an outstanding panel
of health eare professionals pre
senting. Eaeh presenter will show-
ease their topie with a Power
Point presentation, followed by an
open question and answer session.
Barret Butler, RD/Signature
Healthcare
Barret Butler is a Registered
Dietieian, and her presentation
is on Women/Weight/Wellness.
Barret reeeived her MPH at the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. She is a Private Nu
trition Praetitioner in Charlotte,
and is often a guest speaker at
Reids Fine Foods.
Dr. David Framm, Mecklenburg
Medical Group/cardiology
Dr. Framm is returning due to
popular request, and is speaking
about Women and Healthy Hearts.
Dr. Framm graduated from
George Washington Medieal
Sehool, did his resideney in Inter
nal Medieine at Cedars-Sinai
Medieal Center and his Cardiol
ogy fellowship at the University
of Arizona.
Dr. Rina Roginsky, Novant
Health: Carmel OB/Gyn
Dr. Roginsky is presenting on a
very noteworthy and timely topie.
The Importanee of the Annual
Exam. Dr. Rogisnsky attended
medieal sehool at Ohio State Uni
versity and eompleted her resi
deney in OB/GYN at the Medieal
University of South Carolina.
Please join us for this exeiting
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The Charlotte Jewish Film Festival:
Building Community One Film at a Time
With the 10th An
niversary upon us, it’s
safe to say that the Char
lotte Jewish Film Festi
val has gotten it right.
Over the past deeade,
the festival’s direetors -
Debby Bloek (2005-
2006), Jodi Greenwald
(2007-2011), Jeff Turk
(2012-2013) and Riek
Willenzik (eurrent) -
have worked tirelessly
with their dedieated
teams of volunteers,
united by the singular vi
sion of ereating a eul-
tural event that would exeite,
edueate and engage our eommu
nity.
So how has an all-volunteer
based organization grown from a
one-day event in 2005 into a
month-long eultural eelebration in
2014?
Debby, Jodi, Jeff, and Riek all
agree that the CJFF would not be
possible without the round-the-
eloek efforts of its eommittee
members and volunteers as well
as the eontinuing support from
sponsoring organizations, eorpo-
rate partners, patrons, eommunity
partners, and of eourse, audienee
members.
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The direetors also agree on the
reasons that the festival earns the
dedieation and loyalty of filmgo-
ers of all ages. The CJFF provides
an insular, non-threatening aeeess
point for people to plug into their
eommunity, whether it’s for so-
eial, eultural, or religious reasons.
Film is the perfeet medium to help
them eonneet and identify with
their friends, neighbors, and eom
munity members. By ehoosing
movies that have stories, eharae-
ters, and themes with universal
appeal, the CJFF has made it easy
for people from all walks of life to
get together to laugh, ery, think,
feel, and learn.
What does the fu
ture hold for the
CJFF? Debby, Jodi,
Jeff, and Riek
firmly believe that if
the festival ended
tomorrow, the eom
munity wouldn’t
stand for it. There
would be sueh an
outery that someone
would piek up the
reins and start
everything up again
very quiekly - the
CJFF has beeome
that intrieate and
important to our eommunity. Now
one of Charlotte’s most aeelaimed
and respeeted film festivals, the
CJFF is well positioned to break
new ground as it eontinues to at-
traet wider audienees and bring
the best of the world’s einema to
our region.
The above was consolidated
from a January 2 interview with
Debby Block, Jodi Greenwald,
and Jeff Turk as well as a Q&A
with Rick Willenzik
For more information about
the 2014 CJFT, visit charlottejew-
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Remembering
Sharon.
See pages 22-24.
The 2014 Jewish Federation
Annuai Campaign is in fuii
swing. Thanks to The Leon
Levine Foundation new and
increased gifts wiii be
matched doiiar-for-doiiar!
See page 2.
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