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The Charlotte Jewish News - January 2015 - Page 10 Your Connection To The Jewish Community 0 Group REAITOR* Jeremy Ordan Matti Ordan Reider 704.609.9300 704.904.7250 Jeremy.Ordan@AllenTate.com Matti.Ordan@AlIenTate.com TheOrdanReiderGroup.com Meg D. 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Both he and Tricia, along with their dental team, volunteer their time and expertise to make a positive impact in our community. :)CLT SmileCharlotte.com Communitif News Final Wishes By Sandra Goldman In some ways, we are a nation of planners. We make reservations weeks in advanee; make plans to attend movie premiers months in advanee and sehedule dream va- eation years in advanee. But when it eomes to deeiding on that final resting plaee, we aren’t as quiek to plan that far ahead. It eomes as no surprise to eemetery operators that ehoosing your final destination does not top the majority of people’s to-do-Iist. In faet, indieations point to a eon- tinning downward trend for ad vanee sales. In 1995, the AARP eondueted its first Funeral and Burial Plan ners Survey, targeting individuals at least 50 years old who had pre planned or prepaid for a funeral or burial in advanee of the need for these serviees for themselves or someone else. Updated surveys were eondueted in 1998, 1999, and, most reeently in 2007. Amongst the findings from the lat est survey: 23% of respondents prepaid at least a portion of the ex penses for themselves or someone else. About one in four isn’t too bad one might argue, until you eonsider the rate was 28% in 1995 and 32% in 1998. Why the de- eline? Experts agree on a number of reasons: the eeonomy, erema- tions, and the option for memori- alization and more permanent final disposition. Eeonomie uneertainty has stopped many families from pur- ehasing something they may not need for years. A lot of people don’t know what the future holds, and don’t know what’s happening in Washington, D.C.; people, who think about how they will pay for their ehildren’s eollege tuition, how they will pay for daily ex penses. They are distraeted be- eause of all of these things, and when you get distraeted you tend to foeus on the right now. Plus planning ahead is for many eon- sidered a big taboo. It is no big revelation that the situation is not that mueh different at the Hebrew Cemetery. Most people eontaet us when they have a death in their family or eirele of friends. That is when it hits home. That is when they eall us to start the proeess of pre-arrangements. There is nothing seary about pre-planning. One ean meet with me at my offiee at Shalom Park or make an appointment to tour the brand new memorial building, walk the grounds and see firsthand whieh plots are available for pur- ehase. Onee the deeision has been made on the plot - be it one where only fiat markers are allowed or one where an upright marker may be plaeed - a purehase agreement and eontraet is filled out. The pur- ehaser has two years to pay off the plot free of interest as long as at least quarterly payments are being made. Pre-planning takes away a lot of stress a family may experienee when they don’t have the luxury of time and ehoiee. How mueh easier to deal with everything with only one phone eall from the eom- Hebrew Cemetery □1 Ctia|-|Dlt& fort of one’s home to the funeral home, whieh then will eontaet the eemetery. How mueh easier, when one doesn’t have to eome out to the eemetery to ehoose plots at the time of need and when one doesn’t have to deal with the sud den expenses that have to be paid up front, before even a funeral ean take plaee. Not to forget that un less one has been a member of the Hebrew Cemetery for at least two years; an at-need funeral ean eost a eouple of thousand dollars more than a pre-planned one. So next time you sit together with your spouse, partner, ehil- dren, or parents eonsider a eonver- sation about your final resting plaee. Only onee you have made your arrangements will you real ize what great eomfort you give to your family and how mueh at peaee you ean feel. That is the moment when you realize that pre-planning is one of the biggest gifts you ean give to you and your loved ones. If you wish to make pre-plan ning arrangements please eontaet Direetor Sandra Goldman at 704-576-1859 or email at diree- tor@hebreweemetery.org Please let us know as well if you are in terested in leaving a Legaey gift to the eemetery. Your bequest will ensure that these holy grounds will always be eared for not only today but in perpetuity.^ Federation Past Presidents 2711 Randolph Road, Suite 205 Charlotte, NC 28207 704-377-2503 (Continued from page 6) Shop on Trade Street. After a par- tieularly diffieult finaneial period, his eolleetions eould not meet the needs of the underprivileged in our eommunity; therefore, Marvin Bienstoek, the Federation Exeeu- tive Direetor, and I were inspired to ereate a Federation Soeial Serv- iee Committee. This Committee eventually grew into Jewish Fam ily Serviees. My involvement with Federation began beeause I wanted my ehildren, my nieee, and nephews to have a strong Jewish eommunity of whieh they eould be proud. And now I wateh as our Federation grows stronger eaeh year.... To me that legaey is worth more than anything. Jill Newman: I eonsider my greatest aeeom- plishment during my term of of fiee to be the hiring of Sue Worrel as Exeeutive Direetor. Her leader ship has greatly enhaneed the sta tus of Federation within our eommunity. I also am proud to have brought on board many of Federation’s eurrent leaders who are so ably leading Federation into the future. Rich Osborne: For many years our Federation alloeated dollars based on the eur rent year eampaign. We paid the loeal reeipient ageneies and then, if there was a shortfall from our goal, we’d send UJA its final pay ment. Over the years, we aeeumu- lated a signifieant debt to UJA, and the proportion of the eam paign sent to Israel and Diaspora Jewry steadily deelined to about 30%. We finally settled with UJA, and agreed to * annually alloeate at least 30% of the eampaign to overseas needs * pay UJA along with the loeal ageneies * alloeate the prior year eam paign instead of the ongoing eam paign In retrospeet, I realize this was a great deal whieh served Israel and Diaspora Jews, plus made our Federation finaneially stronger. Sara Schreibman: One of the highlights during my presideney was attending the General Assembly in Jerusalem. The North Carolina delegates walked through the streets of Jerusalem with GA attendees from around the world. We ex tended our trip and made our first eonneetions with our Hadera “family.” I reeall visiting their JCC, spending a day at the High Sehool, meeting wonderful women who have beeome life long friends. The P2Gether pro gram has sinee beeome a eentral foeus of our entire eommunity - teaeher, teen, and firefighter ex- ehanges have built human bridges between Charlotte and Hadera. Emily Zimmern: I had the privilege of serv ing as president at an extraor dinary moment in Jewish history — a time when Char lotte was asked to step up and be eome an aetive partner in the re lief and reseue of Soviet Jewry. Images of visiting Moseow in Mareh 1990 on the first UJA Op eration Exodus mission to the for mer Soviet Union will be with me forever - the exeitement was pal pable as people prepared for the first eommunal Seders in more than 70 years, as ehildren studied Hebrew for the first time, as Shab- bat serviees were allowed without government interferenee, and as Jews of all ages waited in long lines that wrapped around eity bloeks to request exit visas. Leaving behind the dark eold of Russia and arriving in the bright warmth of Israel, we saw firsthand the eomprehensive plan ning underway in antieipation of weleoming these newest olim. As we headed home, all of us on the mission knew that we would do whatever it would take to ensure adequate resourees for the reset tlement of 1,000,000 Russian Jews. Charlotte answered the eall. Penny Eisenberg mobilized loeal volunteers to re-settle Russian families here and led by eo- ehairs Meg Goldstein and Jared Sehwartz, our eommunity raised $ I million over and above the an nual eampaign for Operation Ex odus. ^ Jewish Federation OF GREATER CHARLOTTE
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