The Charlotte Jewish News - February 2015 - Page 11
What’s In a Name?
A sample of the answers are:
“my grandmother,” “my mother’s
best friend,” “a girl in a book,”
“my father’s favorite football
player,” “two aunts,” “my dad and
his dad,” “President Kennedy,” “a
Greek God,” and “a great unele.”
So many different responses -
and all eorreet.
Wondering what Jeopardy eat-
egory this is ....
The eategory is “People You
Were Named For.”
Weleome to the start of the
“What’s In a Name?” segment of
the Levine JCC’s Butterfly Projeet
workshops. Eaeh workshop pro-
duees a diverse set of responses -
but, no matter what the answers
are - the partieipants all agree in
the importanee of their names -
from a souree of pride to a key
point of identifieation and individ
uality.
While most partieipants will re
member this is when they painted
a butterfly - the emphasis is the
eonneetion between the student
and the ehild who they are honor
ing with the painting of their but
terfly.
Entering the room of the work
shop, partieipants are greeted with
eolor - lots of eolor - as every
table has elusters of five to six
paints. Eaeh plaee setting has a
sand eolored butterfly and a eer-
tifieate plaeed on top of the butter
fly.
Reeognizing the diffieulty of
grasping the eoneept of 1.5 mil
lion - the number of ehildren who
died in the Floloeaust - the empha
sis is on one ... the name of the
ehild on the eertifieate. To faeili-
tate the eonneetion, eaeh ehild is
asked to read the name aloud.
Many of the names are diffieult to
pronounee, but, that aetually adds
to the eonneetion between the par-
tieipant and the ehild. Often,
many last names on the eertifi-
eates are the same - and the real
ization that these are probably
siblings or eousins really makes
an impaet.
The Butterfly Projeet is a
global projeet, the mission of
whieh is to have a butterfly
painted for eaeh ehild who per
ished in the Floloeaust - for a total
of 1.5 million butterflies. Using
lists of names provided by the
United States Floloeaust Memo
rial Museum, eaeh name only ap
pears one time on a eertifieate -
so, eaeh student is the first and
only one to paint a butterfly for
this ehild.
The name of the program is
Zikaron V’Tikvah - Remembranee
and Flope.
The students diseuss what they
are remembering and what they
are hoping for. WTiile they are two
different ideas, they are eomple-
mentary. Remembering the ehil
dren is to honor them and
remembering the ehildren is the
impetus to hope that this never
happens again - not just to Jewish
ehildren - but, to ehildren and to
people all around the world.
Students are eneouraged to be
A Butterfly Project certificate.
as ereative as possible when paint
ing their butterfly. The emphasis
is on uniqueness and individuality.
Like butterflies, eaeh ehild is dif
ferent and beautiful. The butterfly
beeomes their palate to express
themselves for the ehild they are
honoring. Some students express
themselves with eolor and pat
terns, others add words, and some
even paint their initials and the
ehild’s initials together.
Usually, the painted butterflies
stay at the Levine JCC - but,
everyone gets his or eertifieate.
The students are eneouraged to
keep the eertifieate in a safe plaee
and to oeeasionally say the ehild’s
name aloud.
“By reading the names of the
men down there, we make them
live again, for a moment.” This
quote is from an artiele about an
underground quarry in Franee
from WWI filled with Ameriean
names. Substitute the words “men
down there” with “Jewish ehil
dren” and that is exaetly what The
Butterfly Projeet is
doing.
On another note, a
name that is very im
portant around the But
terfly Projeet is Dana
Kapustin. Dana is the
LJCC’s Butterfly Proj
eet Coordinator. With
more than 5,200 stu
dents partieipating in
the Butterfly Projeet
workshops during the
2014-15 sehool year,
Dana is very busy.
Dana’s hard work and
passion for the Butterfly Projeet
has resulted in five times as many
partieipants this year as there were
in 2011. The Butterfly Projeet re-
eeived a very speeial donation in
Dana’s honor from Sara and
Raphael Kapustin, Dana’s mother-
and father-in-law. The Butterfly
Projeet extends its gratitude and
appreeiation to them for their gen
erous donation.
For more information about, or
to volunteer at a Butterfly Projeet
workshop, please eontaet Dana
Kaputsin, Butterfly Projeet Coor
dinator at the Levine JCC at but-
terflyproieet(®charlotteiee.org or
704-944-6833. ^
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Support Teens: Wear
Orange on February 10
Everyone wants healthy and respeetful relationships for their kids.
But violent, sexist messages in musie, the arts, sports, and games, eom-
bined with the amount of teehnology now in the hands of teens, ean
make that a tough goal.
“Respeet Week”, February 9-13, is being eelebrated during Teen Dat
ing Violenee Awareness Month to eneourage teens to ereatively advo-
eate for and promote healthy relationships. The National Youth
Advisory Board for LovelsRespeet sponsors this national event and has
made available a guide for teens offering information and adviee on
everything from using soeial media to awareness displays, pep rallies
t-shirt eontests, ehalking, posters, and ways to engage their sehools.
Flebrew High students and several Jewish teen groups will be par
tieipating and displaying their ereative work in February. They and the
Jewish eommunity eneourage everyone to wear orange on Tuesday,
February 10 in honor of Teen Dating Violenee Awareness Month.
Spread the message #Orange4Love and help all of us to remember that
love has many definitions, but abuse isn’t one of them.
See www.loveisrespeet.org/ teendvmonth nationally and
TDVA.CharMeek.org loeally for more information on Respeet Week
and to aeeess the Guide. Questions and how to get involved? Contaet
Melissa.Siegel-Barros@meeklenburgeountyne.gov. or Marsha Stiekler
at info@shalombayit-ne.org. ^
One in three adolescents in the U.S. is a victim of physical,
sexual, emotional, or verbal abuse from a dating partner,
a figure that far exceeds rates of other types of youth vio
lence. In the U.S., that’s more than 7 million young peo
ple.
30% of teens are text-messaged 10 to 30 times an hour by
their partners asking where they are, who they are with,
what they are doing. Nearly 'k of them communicate
hourly between midnight and SAM.
One in five girls electronically send nude or semi-nude
photos or videos.
37% send sexually suggestive texts.
One in five recipients shares the photos or videos.
In a 2009 survey, three out of four parents said they had
talked about healthy relationships with their kids. The ma
jority of kids said no one had talked to them about abuse.
Learn how you can help at loveisrespect.org or
www.Jwi.org.
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