An Affiliate of the Jewish Federation
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Vol. 37, No. 6
Sivan-Tammuz-Av 5775
June-July 2015
Jewish Federation Honors Siiver Circie and Legacy Societies
The Jewish Federation will
honor Silver Cirele Soeiety and
Legaey Soeiety donors during a
“Luneh and Learn” on Monday,
June 15 at 11:30 AM at Temple
Israel.
Invited guests for the reeogni-
tion and appreeiation event are
donors who have either eon-
tributed to the Jewish Federation
Annual Campaign for a minimum
of 25 years and/or have made a
planned gift to the Jewish Feder
ation to ensure the future of our
Jewish eommunity.
Community members who
have moved to Charlotte from an
other eommunity and have eon-
tributed to the Jewish Federation
eampaign for a minimum of 25
years are invited and weleome to
attend.
The
5 Legged
Table
Avraham Infeld
Guest speaker for the event is
Avraham Infeld, President Emer
itus of Hillel, the Foundation for
Jewish Campus life. Infeld has in
vested a lifetime building Jewish
identity and strengthening the
State of Israel. He is the founder
and direetor of a sueeession of in
novative edueational institutions.
Today he serves as a eonsultant on
Tikkun Olam to the Rent Institute
and is a member of the faeulty at
the Mandel Institute. In May,
2012, Avraham Infeld was eleeted
Chairman of the Board of the
Hillels of Israel.
A native of South Afriea, Avra
ham Infeld immigrated to Israel in
1959. He is a graduate of the He
brew University with a degree in
Bible and Jewish History, and of
Tel Aviv University’s Sehool of
Law. In 2005, he was awarded the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s
prestigious Samuel Rothberg
Prize for Jewish Edueation, the
first speeialist in informal Jewish
Edueation to be so honored. He
was given an honorary doetorate
by Muhlenberg College in May
2006, for his eontribution to the
field of edueation.
Avraham Infeld’s vision for the
Jewish People is to find a way to
be unified without being uniform.
He suggests we aehieve this vi
sion by eonstrueting a “five
legged table” whereby eaeh of us
ean ehoose at least three legs to
express our Jewish identity:
memory, family, eovenant, Israel,
and Hebrew.
RSVP by Monday, June 8 to
ellie.kunkes@jewisheharlotte.org
or 704-944-6757. «
Meet the Deli Man: Ziggy is Coming to Charlotte
Nothing goes together like
summer and the movies. And of
eourse, it’s always niee to throw
in a little food.
On Sunday, July 19, the Char
lotte Jewish Film Festival (CJFF)
will host its seeond annual Fan
Appreeiation Day event at the
Regal Ballantyne Village Stadium
Theaters.
“We are so honored to have re-
eeived Charlotte Magazine’s
Voter’s Choiee Award for Best
Film Festival/Series for the 4th
year in a row,” said Co-Direetor
Riek Willenzik. “Fan Appreeia
tion Day is a way for us to say
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tinues to make the CJFF one of
the premier eultural events in the
region.”
Fan Appreeiation Day will in-
elude two of the most popular
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films from CJFF’s reeently eom-
pleted (and reeord breaking) 11th
season as well as the loeal debut
of a brand new film. Speeial
guests and additional value added
programming will help make this
one of the ean’t-miss events of the
summer.
Admission is free for all Fan
Appreeiation Day programs but
reservations are required so please
visit eharlottejewishfilm.eom for
tieketing links.
Sunday, July 19 - Regal
Ballantyne Village Stadium
Theaters
Deli Man
11 AM, followed by the 1st
Annual CJFF Soup Contest
Direetor Erik Greenberg
Anjou and the deli man himself,
Ziggy Gruber (a Yiddish-speak
ing, Freneh trained ehef), are
seheduled to appear and be our
guides to those long loved deliea-
eies - pastrami, kreplaeh, and of
eourse, ehieken soup. Deli Man
shares the history, aneedotes, and
humor that onee made one’s loeal
delieatessen the virtual epieenter
not only of food, but of family and
eommunity.
Ziggy and Erik will be featured
in an audienee Q&A and be
judges in the Inaugural CJFF
Chieken Soup Contest that will
take plaee after the film. The eon-
test is open to everyone - if you’d
like to put your soup to the test,
please visit eharlottejewish
film.eom for all the details.
Above and Beyond
3 PM
Co-winner of the 2015 CJFF
Audienee Award, Above and Be
yond is a terrifie new film on the
group of Jewish Ameriean pilots
who answered the eall to fly in the
1948 War of Independenee and
formed what is now the Israeli Air
Foree. The first major feature-
length doeumentary about these
heroie airmen. Above and Beyond
brings together new interviews
with the pilots and stunning aerial
footage to present a faseinating,
little-known tale filled with heart,
heroism and high-flying ehutzpah.
The film was produeed by Naney
Spielberg and has reeeived addi
tional Audienee Awards from fes
tival goers in Atlanta, Seattle,
Chieago, Philadelphia, and Miami.
Touchdown Israel
5 PM- Tailgating Event
7 PM - Movie
Paeked with gridiron aetion
and irreverent humor. Touchdown
Israel goes inside the improbable
rise of the pigskin sport in the
Holy Land.
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