The Charlotte Jewish News -January 2015 - Page 13
Margi Goldstein is among the
273 individuals and families in
our community who have created
541 unique legacy gifts to support
its future. Please take the time to
read her story and thank her for
her generosity. It is our hope that
you will be inspired and encour
aged to think about how you can
create your own Jewish legacy.
By Margi L. Goldstein
Julius and I moved to Charlotte
in January 1952. We had been
married one year and were expeet-
ing our first ehild. He was from
Gastonia and I was from Barn
well, SC, a town of 1,900 people.
three Jewish families, no syna
gogue, no Torah, no Rabbi, no He
brew sehool. We didn’t reeeive a
formal Jewish edueation but had a
strong Jewish identity. Our par
ents kept kosher, observed all hol
idays, and eaeh house had a blue
box to reeeive Tzedakah, almost
every day.
Our arrival in Charlotte was
our big ehanee to live a Jewish life
within a Jewish eommunity. We
moved on a Tuesday and the next
week I was folding bulletins at
Temple Israel on Dilworth Road.
There were meetings, rehearsals
for musieal produetions, fundrais
Our Jewish Community’s
Newest Legacy Gifts
There are now 273 individu-
als/families throughout our Jew
ish eommunity who have
ineluded a loeal Jewish organiza
tion in their legaey plans ereating
541 unique legaeies. We thank the
following individuals/families
who have reeently informed our
eommunity, through Foundation
for the Charlotte Jewish Commu
nity (FCJC) or one of the ten Cre
ate Your Jewish Legaey eommu
nity partners, that they have
ereated a legaey gift to support the
future of Charlotte’s Jewish eom
munity.
We weleome our newest
donors into our eommunity’s
Book of Life Soeiety:
Anonymous (3)
Sharri and Peter Benjamin
Denise and Bob Cooper
Morton and Mary Kaplan
Joan Kirschner
Andrew and Gwendolyn Lindner
Wendy and Adam Petricoff
Debora and Ed Pizer
Dena and Michael Raffler
Harry and Larry Sparks
Create
youCfewish
Le^ac^
a
ing, eommittees, ardent and some
times heated diseussions but most
of all the true beginning of our
spiritual growth.
The Charlotte Jewish eommu
nity provided the tools that we
needed to be the Jewish family we
would beeome. Temple Israel,
UJA, Hadassah, BBYO, the He
brew Cemetery, and the Federa
tion all reeeived our eommitment
and many hours as volunteers.
The eommunity flourished and we
were the benefieiaries.
Through my mind’s kaleido-
seope of memories I ean still see
and feel the joy of my ehildren
and my grandehildren’s B’nai
Mitzvahs. At the age of 65, I too
beeame a Bat Mitzvah girl. Julius
died in 2007. We had 56 years to
gether. I was privileged to have
shared my life with this truly lov
ing, kind, and generous man.
People ask me why, at my age,
I am still an aetivist in the Jewish
eommunity. My answer is simple.
My foeus in reeent years has been
Temple Israel. I believe the future
for Jewish life in Ameriea begins
in the synagogue. This is where
the seed for Jewish life is planted.
That seed is nourished by Hebrew
sehools, junior eongregations,
rabbis, eantors, and teaehers. This
is where ehildren, with their niek-
els, dimes, and quarters learn to
praetiee Tzedakah. Someday,
these ehildren will ensure the sue-
eess of Jewish institutions through
their own philanthropy. If I truly
love Judaism, it is my duty to per
petuate this belief
I am honored to have served as
eo-ehair of the Book of Life dur
ing its inaugural year. As a family
that has reeeived so mueh, it is my
responsibility to endow the future
for our ehildren and the genera
tions to follow. ^
PrepZowvfngk iy ter your loved/ one4r.
Contact us today.
• • •
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704.576.1859
Hebrew Cemetery hebrewcemetery.org
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