The Charlotte Jewish News - January 2016 - Page 2
JEWISH FEDERATION NEWS
New Year New Start
By Inbal Ozeri, Community
Shlicha
Since I arrived here in Char
lotte at the end of August, I have
experienced the most extreme
change in my life. I decided to
leave Israel and everything I
know and love and move to a dif
ferent side of the planet for at least
one whole year.
Serving as the community
Shlicha solidifies my belief in
World Jewry, and the importance
of the connection between Israeli
Jews and the Diaspora Jews. In
the role of Shlicha, I can help ad
vance the connection of the holy-
land from our Bible as well as our
joint history and legacy with Jews
from all around the globe (includ
ing Israelis!).
Since I started my journey to
the U.S, I have experienced amaz
ing experiences such as my first
Jewish holidays out of Israel,
away from my family and friends,
but celebrating and enjoying the
holidays with such an amazing
and warm Jewish community. I
have had the opportunity to pray
for the first time in an American
Jewish synagogue and get to
Inbal Ozeri
know wonderful, genuine families
that had opened their homes and
hearts for me and let me in to their
lives. I am and continue to be
amazed by all the friendly people
I meet and I know that I will con
tinue to meet. I never thought I
would be so very fortunate to ar
rive to such a superb community
in Charlotte.
I am happy to announce a
Shabbat Candle Lighting for
January 2016
Friday, January 1, 5:04 PM
Friday, January 8, 5:10 PM
Friday, January 15, 5:16PM
Friday, January 22, 5:23 PM
Friday, January 29, 5:30 PM
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monthly Cafe Ivrit (Hebrew) that
I started last month. We will meet
up every third Monday of the
month at 6:30 PM at Starbucks on
Morrison Blvd. We will meet for
six sessions and our next meet up
will be on January 18. I hope to
introduce folks - in a casual and
entertaining way - to learn a few
words in Hebrew while getting to
know each other and just basically
having fun.
Also I am beginning to plan
our Jewish Federation annual
Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atz-
maut event on Wednesday
evening. May 11, and I’m looking
for a few volunteers that may
want to help me plan the most in
teresting, creative and entertain
ing community event that
Charlotte has ever seen.
If you are interested in joining
my Cafe Ivrit, participating in
planning our Yom HaZikaron/
Yom Ha’aztmaut celebration or
simply want to reach out to me,
feel free to email me at at Shali-
ach@jewishcharlotte.org or 704-
944-6784.
I look forward to hearing from
you. ^
CONTENTS
The Jewish Community Reiations
Councii of the Jewish Federation of
Greater Chariotte Presents Distinguished
Speaker Dr. Ronen Hoffman
The Tail Wagging the
Dog, Israel Style:
Challenges in Israeli
Foreign Poiicy israei
Tuesday February 2 in Sam in political negotiations.
Lerner Center for Cultural Arts More recently. Dr. Hoffman
at 7 PM was a lecturer and researches at
Dr. Hoffman has an extensive the school of government at the
history as a politician and war ex- Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.
pert in Israel. He is
the co-founder of the
International Policy
Institute for counter
terrorism, served as
personal assistant to
Prime Minister
Yitzchak Rabin dur
ing his political
campaigns and coor
dinated the Israeli
delegation that ne
gotiated peace with
Syria. He also
served as senior ad
visor to the Minister
of Defense and ad
vised the Health
Minister on interna
tional economic co
operation.
Dr. Hoffman is
also a former mem
ber of Knesset, having served on
Israel’s defense and foreign af
fairs committees in the 19th
Knesset, eventually chairing the
sub-committee on foreign affairs
and public diplomacy.
With a Ph.D. in war studies
from King’s College in London,
Dr. Hoffman is an expert in polit
ical psychology. He specializes in
psychological and cultural barri
ers in conflict and resolution and
Dr. Ronen Hoffman
Dr. Hoffman will discuss the
challenges that Israel faces in for
eign policy and how one of the
world’s best militaries and a spec
tacular intelligence system fails
and stumbles when it comes to
foreign policy. Why? What
causes Israel’s leaders to act
courageously in the martial-secu
rity battlefield while at the same
time be driven by fear in the po-
(Continued on page 4)
Jewish Community Center pp. 16, 17
Federation News pp. 1-4 MazelTov p. 19
Youth Visions p. 5 Schools pp. 20-24
Synagogues/Congregations pp. 6-9 Women’s News p. 24
Jewish Family Services pp. 10, 11 Tu biShevat pp. 25,26,28-30
Levine-Sklut Judaic Library
Community News
p. 12 Dining Out p. 27
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