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The Charlotte Jewish News - June-July 2015 - Page 18 The Hebrew Cemetery: A Place of Love and Community By Brian Yesowitch, Board Presi dent, Hebrew Cemetery Associa tion Between Passover and Shavuot, Jews all over the world refleet on the Exodus from Egypt and the presentation of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. While the Hebrews of the Biblieal age experieneed horrible trials both in slavery and wandering through the desert, today we are aware that many of us, our fami lies and neighbors, also are going through diffieult struggles. Our modern problems are often dis missed as #FirstWorldProblems, but they are real. Issues like ex tended illness, divoree, and aeei- dents pull us out of our normal sphere of experienee - and ean lead to long paths of reeovery be fore we, or our friends, families, and neighbors, beeome whole onee again. One situation many of us And ourselves in is the loss of a parent or grandparent. 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Photo by Sandra Goldman. Henrietta Witzer, who died in 2012 - the pain of the loss ean linger long beyond the date of passing. I feel that grief tends to be intensifled by love we feel to ward the one we’ve lost. Grief is diminished when it’s shared with loved ones. At the eemetery, dur ing a funeral or unveiling, it’s eommonplaee to see eousins and other extended family exehanging tearful hugs and smiles with one another. Love is what ereates fam ily, and love ereates the eommuni- ties that share their signifleant life events at the eemetery. The Song of Solomon states in 8:7, “Many waters eannot queneh love; rivers eannot wash it away.” As the seasons have ehanged from winter to spring to our glori ous summer, we’ve seen mueh growth and aetivity at the eeme tery. Last fall, the eompleted first stage of the Blumenthal Memorial Garden began to bring eolor and variety to our eemetery. Our Tu BiShvat tree planting eeremony brought eemetery members, the greater Jewish eommunity, and friends from area neighborhoods together to add 35 new frees to our landseape. Additionally, a mueh needed new roof, fresh paint, and briek work brought new life to our small historie ehapel. It is the old est building in Charlotte still in serviee to the Jewish eommunity. We thank our members and donors for their generosity and eontinued support, and extend a speeial thank you to Norman Steinberger, whose philanthropy knows no bounds for his role in the historie ehapel renovations. Many of you are aware of our ongoing history projeet with the Levine Skint Judaie Library. Eaeh month, we reeognize one #Throw- baekXhursday on Faeebook; along with LSJL, we profile an individ ual buried in our eemetery. fn Jan uary, we honored Martin Luther King Day by highlighting an indi vidual mentioned by name in the famous “Letter from a Birming ham Jail.” In February, for Presi dent’s Day, we noted a relationship between George Washington, who onee referred to Charlotte as “a hitting plaee,” and the Jews of Charlotte. Mareh brought Women’s History Month and the matriareh of Temple Emanuel in Gastonia. In April, we diseussed Jewish eomedy and Groueho Marx’s eonneetion to our eommunity. In May, we eele- brated Israeli history and an ae- eomplished individual whose artistie legaey endures today in Plaza Midwood. To follow these posts, we weleome you to visit www.faeebook.eom/Hebrew- Cemetery right away and like our page. We’re only getting started sharing the many stories that ean be told “between the fenees” at our Hebrew Cemetery. One way stories are told is through Jewish books and Hebrew texts. However, what do you do with these books when they have served their purpose, helping ehil- dren and adults to study and pray? They should be buried appropri ately, in aeeordanee with Jewish law. The loeation where these books and texts are buried is ealled a Genizah. We have many of them on our eemetery property. This spring, materials from the eommunities at Temple Israel, Temple Beth El, and the Levine- Sklut Judaie Library all made their way into Genizot at the He brew Cemetery. Please eheek with your elergy to team when the next one will be planned so you ean ex perienee this onee-in-a-lifetime mitzvah for yourself For 145 years, the Hebrew Cemetery has been a very real tes tament to the sustained sueeesses of our Charlotte Jewish eommu nity. I hope you will eonsider adding the Hebrew Cemetery As- soeiation to your Create Your Jew ish Legaey bequests. For more information about membership ($72/year), funeral preplanning. Memorial Wall plaques, legaey planning or any of the programs diseussed, please eontaet our direetor, Sandra Goldman, at direetor@hebreweemetery.org or 704-576-1859. « [ Hebrew Cemetery of Greater Charlotte f4o-iA-o-r * OeLebrra-te- *
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