The Charlotte Jewish News - June-July 2014 - Page 11
Support the Oldest Jewish Institution in the Charlotte Area
Memorial Building under eonstruetion, Spring 2014. Photo by San
dra Goldman.
By Brian Yesowitch, President,
Hebrew Cemetery Association
As the oldest Jewish institution
in Charlotte, the Hebrew Ceme
tery Assoeiation is asking for your
help to raise the final $300,000 of
the eapital eampaign. For the past
two years, the Hebrew Cemetery
Assoeiation has worked diligently
to raise over $1.6 million for the
eemetery’s expansion and to eon-
struet the Memorial Building,
whieh is as beautiful as it is prae-
tieal.
The Hebrew Cemetery Assoei
ation requires a final $300,000 to
feel seeure that the Cemetery will
be eared for in perpetuity. The im
provements that are underway are
part of a well-thought out Master
Plan, more than a deeade in the
making. Hundreds of Jewish fam
ilies already have made very gen
erous finaneial eontributions to
make this Master Plan a reality,
but we need your help. We sin-
eerely hope that you, too, will
pledge your support to take us
over the finish line.
Your involvement will make it
possible to nearly double the num
ber of graves available. We look
forward to the day in the near fu
ture when small memorial serv-
will be held in the new
lees
Rabbis Judy Sehindler and
Jonathan Freirieh of Temple Beth
El in front of the former Beth El
ark. Photo by Silver Stream Cre
ative Group.
building’s Mindy Ellen Levine
Chapel, home to the ark, formerly
housed in Temple Beth El. No
family will endure heat, eold, or
wet weather dur
ing a serviee. In
stead, everyone
will eongregate in
side the air-eondi-
tioned building
with modem bath
rooms. The griev
ing family ean
find eomfort in
side the Berlin
Family Room be
fore serviees and
after interment;
everyone ean meet
together in the
Goreliek Gather
ing Room.
Our forefathers had the vision
to ereate a eemetery that has em-
braeed our eommunity without
fail from 1867 to this day. As it is
subseribed in the Torah, the first
Jewish settlers in our region estab
lished the Hebrew Cemetery As
soeiation before they plaeed the
first stone for a temple or a sehool.
In the past 100 years, the
Cemetery has not onee asked for
the eommunity’s support. Now, as
we approaeh our 150th anniver
sary, we are asking the eommu
nity to invest in our future. Please
give any amount that you are able.
A $1,000 minimum pledge,
payable over five years, will allow
you to inseribe a loved one’s
name, along with your name as
the giver, on the Memorial Wall.
A Builder will be reeognized for a
$5,000 pledge. Pledges are
payable over five years and any
donation amount is weleome and
Hebrew Cemetery Assoeiation Board Members and
Donorspietured at the Memorial Building Ground Break
ing. Photo by Silver Stream Creative Group.
Hebrew Cemetery
of Greater Charlotte
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appreeiated.
Caring for our aneestors is one
of the greatest mitzvot one ean do.
We hope that you will eonsider a
pledge to the Cemetery, where we
Honor, Celebrate and Embraee the
memory of our loved ones.
For information on how to
make a building fund pledge,
please eontaet Sandra Goldman at
direetor@hebreweemetery.org or
704-576-1859.^
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Summer Yeshiva to Open
in Charlotte
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Have you ever been able
to study in a Yeshiva?
There is an amazing oppor
tunity that awaits you in
Charlotte during August.
Congregation Ohr Ha-
Torah and Lubaviteh of
North Carolina will offer a
mini-Yeshiva for the Jew
ish eommunity whieh will
be held at the Lubaviteh Eduea-
tional Center at 6619 Sardis
Road. The Yeshiva program will
begin on August 10 and eontinue
through the end of August.
The Summer Yeshiva will be
open to men and women from all
baekgrounds and will be led by
Charlotte home-grown Yeshiva
students and their friends. There
will be a series of elasses with a
range of topies available both in
the evening and during the day
time. Sessions offered at the mini-
Yeshiva will range from
beginning Hebrew to prayer book
Hebrew eomprehension. Classes
will inelude Bible study, Jewish
history, in-depth Talmud and Tal-
mudie ethies. Kabbalah, and
mueh more. Some of the sessions
will deal with issues sueh as:
“The do-gooder - Do you owe
someone who pays your debts
(Congregation
MaTorali
a project oj Eutavifirit of Horih Carolina
without asking you?” “The Lost
Ten Tribes - Do they exist? Where
are they? Are they ever eoming
baek?” “The order of ereation,
from the spiritual worlds to the
origin of physieal objeets.”
Partieipants ean attend group
sessions, as well as set up private
study with a partner, known in the
Yeshiva world as Chavrusa study.
These Chavrusa sessions will be
set up by appointment, or as
walk-ins, (sehedule permitting).
The prime purpose of this projeet
is to provide our loeal eommunity
the opportunity to sense and ex-
perienee the atmosphere of a
Yeshiva, with ongoing study ses
sions simultaneously throughout
the study hall. The mini-Yeshiva
will also provide an opportunity
to explore some ehallenging
questions that people have not yet
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