An Affiliate of the Jewish Federation
of Greater Charlotte
Vol. 38, No. 3
Adar I- Adar II 5776
March 2016
Through Federation You Can Do Good Everywhere from Anywhere
18th Annual Spring Lecture Featuring Jennifer Teege
Come find your link to commu
nity, lasting friendships, and the
opportunity to do good every
where, from anywhere.
The 2016 Annual Spring Lec
ture will be held on Thursday,
April 7 at Temple Beth El and will
feature Jennifer Teege.
The Spring Lecture is the sig
nature campaign and outreach
event benefiting the Jewish Feder
ation of Greater Charlotte
Women’s Division and the 2016
Annual Campaign. This multigen-
erational event brings together
nearly 300 women for an inspiring
and entertaining evening. Our past
speakers have included bestselling
author Jennifer Weiner and culi
nary icon Ruth Reichl.
This year’s Spring Lecture will
feature Jennifer Teege, bestselling
author of My Grandfather Would
Have Shot Me: A Black Women
Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past.
The book was bom of a shocking
discovery: At age 3 8, married with
two children, Jennifer picked up a
book by chance at Hamburg’s
main library and discovered that
her grandfather was the bratal
Nazi commandant of the Plaszow
concentration camp, portrayed so
memorably by Ralph Fiennes in
the film Schindler s List.
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placed in an orphanage and then
foster care before being adopted
by her foster parents at age 7. Al
ready coping with the trauma of
rejection by her birth mother,
Teege now faced other cmel facts:
that she had to learn about her bi
ological family’s secret from a
book; and that a monstrous man,
Amon Goeth, reviled for decades
as “the butcher of Plaszow,” was
her biological grandfather. The
chilling discovery about her an
cestry sent Jennifer into a pro
found confrontation with her past.
her family, and her sense of self,
topics she explores in her memoir,
written with award-winning jour
nalist Nikola Sellmair, who also
supplies historical and other con
text in a separate, interwoven nar
rative.
Jennifer will share her
tional pilgrimage with
our community on April
7, and we invite you to
live this journey with
her. The evening will
begin with a strolling
dinner at 6:30 PM in the
Main Hall at Temple
Beth El and the lecture
will take place at 7:30
PM in the temple sanctu
ary. A dessert reception
and book signing will
follow the program.
Spring Lecture tickets
are $45 for the Dinner
and Lecture, or $25 for
the Lecture Only. There
is a minimum donation of $50 to
the 2016 Jewish Federation An
nual Campaign to attend the
event. Pledges are payable
through December 2016.
The Jewish Federation’s annual
campaign funds and supports a
broad network of organizations
here in Charlotte, in Israel and in
over 70 countries around the
world.
For more information or to pur
chase tickets, please visit our web
site at www.jewishchar-lotte.org
or contact the Federation office
704-944-6757.^
Steering Committe member.', Talli Dippold, Debbie
Porter, Jenny Ro.'ienthal, Mallory Miller, and Sara Kul-
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Steering Committee
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Shalom Park Community Garden
There’s a lot to like about
the month of March if you’re
a gardener.
This is when the dull
shades of winter give way to
the fresh greens and pastels
of approaching spring and
the planning and hard work
that went on during the
months of winter begin to
pay off.
The committee in charge
of Shalom Park Community
Garden and its volunteers
have done plenty of spadework in
the garden over the past several
months preparing for the first
summer season. Raised beds have
been built, trellises raised, mulch
spread and perennials planted.
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Watching things grow.
If you haven’t visited the gar
den, which is part of the park’s
Shalom Green environmental ini
tiative, you’ll find it to the right of
the entrance to the Levine-Sklut
Library.
Louise Frumkin, who works
with Bridget Cohen and Aaron
Lipsitz to select and schedule the
plantings, expects pansies and
primrose to be in bloom this
month, weather permitting.
Radishes and carrots should be
coming up, garlic is in place, and
hopefully the peas will be thriv
ing.
The garden has begun serving
its role as a tool to teach commu
nity children Jewish values
related to the environment,
agriculture, festivals, and
tzedakah. Students from the
religious schools at both
temples, the day school, and
the preschool have been vis
iting the garden for classes,
and many of them have been
involved in planting winter
crops like onions and garlic.
The Garden committee’s
education team of Bette An
drews, Candice Serbin,
Rabbi Noam Rancher, and Rabbi
Jonathan Freirich, is planning a
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